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
Virginia Beach VA personal injury attorney Jim Lewis spoke to members of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association on mediation techniques he uses in his own injury law practice. Taking “mediation as an alternative to trial” as his cetral theme, Lewis spoke on October 12, 2011, and was joined by retired circuit court judges from Suffolk and…
A truck-car crash occurred at the intersection of Bonney Road and South Budding Ave in Virginia Beach, VA. Reports indicate that a dump truck ran into a car and there were injuries, according to wvec.com. The cause of the truck wreck remains under investigation. Was the driver distracted in some? Was there a mechanical problem with…
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 National Highway Transportation Safety Administration recently found that the number of motorcycle fatalities nearly doubled between 1997 and 2005. That shocking statistic gained credence on October 18, 2011 when Nay man Julian Austin Ford, 24, crashed his motorcycle into a guardrail on Terminal Boulevard near Ruthven Road in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), and suffered injuries that took his…