This article compares and is a summary of personal injury laws in Virginia and North Carolina. Personal injury attorney attorney Rick Shapiro create this guide to Virginia and North Carolina personal injury laws.
ATV Rollovers and Accidents Continue to Injure and Kill Teenagers and Minors.
What Happened Our North Carolina wrongful death client was a 15-year-old football player attending a sports summer camp when a recklessly driven groundskeeping 4 wheel ATV cart struck him and inflicted a fatal traumatic brain injury (TBI). The deadly crash happened in July 2011. The instructional camp was being held at and sponsored by a…
A Norfolk man was operating an all-terrain vehicle when he slammed into a wall in the 300 block of Naval Base Road, according to the Virginian-Pilot. The impact of the ATV crash killed the 22 years old. My sympathies go out to the man’s friends and family. ATV accidents resulted in 377 fatalities during 2008, according to the…
Under Virginia law, a person who is injured in an accident has the right to file a personal injury claim or lawsuit against the person whose negligence caused or contributed to the accident. It is, however, a time-bound right, which needs to be exercised within a period of two years, as dictated by the state’s…