What Happened Our Virginia car accident injury client needed several years of increasingly intense treatment for neck pain and stiffness following a collision in New Kent County, VA. She was 17 and in high school when a driver backing out of a driveway onto a rural highway caused the accident. The young woman went home…
What Happened Our North Carolina car accident injury client suffered serious leg, foot and ankle injuries and months of complications after a driver inadvertently ran over her foot in a parking lot. The injured 70-year-old woman eventually needed two surgeries and a skin graft. Our client had attended a community board meeting in Hertford, NC,…
What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client was 25 years old when an emergency room physician mistakenly diagnosed the man’s life-threatening fungal meningitis as the less-serious viral form of the disease. The young man went to the ER complaining of experiencing headaches, nausea, vomiting, neck pain and unusual sensitivity to bright lights for the preceding…
What Happened The West Virginia Supreme Court reinstated a Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) mesothelioma wrongful death claim for the widow of a railroad worker. The unanimous 5-0 decision in Ratliff v Norfolk Southern Railway Co. was handed down on March 12, 2009. Our Virginia-based railroad injury and wrongful death law firm brought the case…
What Happened Our national FELA lawsuit client was the estate of a retired CSX switchman in Tennessee who died from lung cancer. Although we are based in Virginia, we represent injured and deceased railroad employees throughout the eastern United States. The switchman worked for CSX from 1962 to 2002, during which time he was regularly…