My colleague Jim Lewis has written a new post for our firm’s VA-NC Wrongful Death Lawyers Blog about the listeria outbreak linked to canteloupes from a Colorado (CO) farm that has claimed the lives of 25 people across the United States. Congress is investigating the tainted cantaloupe incident. DM
A dozen or more contractors working at the nuclear power plant in Surry, Virginia (VA), were exposed to asbestos while removing pipes, the state’s Department of Labor and Industry has found. Fibers from insulation on poorly marked pipes escaped into the air and settled on workers’ clothes, the agency found. In a report on the…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released data regarding work-related deaths in West Virginia in 2010. The Upper Big Branch mine explosion in April that killed 29 people, almost one-third of the year’s fatalities, heavily affected the numbers. Altogether, 95 workers were killed during employment in 2010 in West Virginia. This is significantly more…
Less than two weeks after a homeless man died in a fire at the Terrific Fabric Care Company building on Campostella Road in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), the owner of the business has been charged with class I misdemeanors for not having a business license, not ensuring a smoke detector worked and blocking access to a…
A 54-year-old man from East Stone Gap, Virginia (VA), was enjoying a ride on his motorcycle on Highway 71 in Russell County when his life came to an abrupt, tragic end. He was killed when a dump truck crossed the center line and slammed into his motorcycle. The truck also hit two more people on motorcycles,…