Sunbeam, its parent company Jarden Consumer Solutions and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on August 30, 2012, announced a recall of more than 870,000 Mr. Coffee single-cup brewers. The action was prompted by nearly 60 reports of users being sprayed with and burned by steam and hot coffee grounds exploding from the reservoir of…
For reasons police have not yet determined, a 16-year-old driver lost control of her Jeep SUV in Rockingham County, Virginia (VA), during the morning of August 31, 2012, and plowed into a group of pedestrians who were walking along the side of Nutmeg Court. The accident occurred in the Belmont subdivision just outside the town…
What Happened: A hit and run accident occurred on Chapel Hill Road in Burlington, North Carolina (NC). When police arrived at the scene of the wreck, only one car was present – an overturned 2005 Chevy Trailblazer. Inside the vehicle, a young child was injured and thus taken to Alamance Regional Medical Center. The driver…
Animal control personnel have put down a Saint Bernard mix that attacked and seriously injured a woman on Charles Street in Suffolk, Virginia (VA). Although the dog did not have rabies, authorities deemed the animal to be vicious and a danger to people because of how badly it mauled its victim. The dog had also…
In a new post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, my Virginia personal injury attorney colleague Randy Appleton reports on two cases brought under the whistleblower provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act that were won by the plaintiffs. To read more, click over to “Norfolk Southern Loses Two More Cases Involving Wrongfully Fired…