My colleague, Emily Mapp Brannon, wrote an injuryboard article about a Beaufort County woman who died from being hit from behind by another vehicle as she slowed down to turn into her driveway. It is not an overstatement that drivers can be killed and suffer wrongful death from something as routine as slowing to turn…
My colleague Rick Shapiro posted an article about a Goldsboro, NC area car accident that killed Emily Gibbs, of Northeast NC. At 2:30 p.m on March 7th a 94 year-old passenger died after the car she was riding in rear-ended a parked car on NC Highway 94 across Lake Mattamuskeet in Hyde County, North Carolina. According to…
The family and widower of Beata Christandl obtained a small, nominal recovery in wrongful death/negligent homicide ruling from a Austrian court relating to her death in an unusual skiing accident that occurred in Austria. Dieter Althaus, a German state governor, was skiing in the wrong direction at an intersection of two ski slopes when he…
The Associated Press reports that both the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety, and Training, and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration are investigating whether the recent fatal accident at a West Virginia Patriot Coal Mine is mining-related. On Jan. 28, 43-year-old Darrell Massey, a contract worker, was killed in a vehicle rollover….
Virginia’s Peanut Corporation of America is now facing wrongful death charges after a nursing home resident died from a salmonella infection following the consumption of a PCA peanut butter product.