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…
Canadian National Railway has agreed to pay members of a Rockford, Illinois (IL), family a total of $36 million in settlements for wrongful death and injury claims stemming from a derailment and fire that investigators have linked to negligence by the railroad and its train crew. According to a detailed recreation of the June 19,…
In his latest post to our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, my colleague Jim Lewis reports on a legal victory for a Florida (FL) woman who became paralyzed due to the negligence of three doctors who ignored her cries for help and missed what should have been a simple diagnosis of an injection-related injury…
My colleague John C. has written a new post for our firm’s Virginia Brain/Head Injuries blog site about how a U.S. congressman is seeking better care for brain injury victims. The effort is part of a move to increase the levels of treatment for victims of head injuries in conjunction with the gradual implemetation of…
Virginia (VA), along with the rest of the nation, has been experiencing an increase in the number of deadly motorcycle accidents. In fact, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration found that the number of motorcycle fatalities nearly doubled between 1997 and 2005. The smaller size of a motorcycle and increased area of rider exposure puts a…