As a Virginia (VA) and West Virginia (WV) personal injury attorney, as well as a father I know that personal injury cases involving children are very different than adult cases. A lot of emotions play out when a child is injured or killed due to someone’s negligence. Also, there may be long-lasting medical consequences from…
In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia Trucking Accident/Injury Blog, my personal injury attorney colleague John C. welcomes the news that new federal rules will shorten the number of hours semi, tractor-trailer and interstate big rig drivers can spend behind the wheel each day. John notes that driver fatigue plays a role in many…
A Sampson County, North Carolina man, age 47, was charged in early July 2011 with drunken driving and reckless driving after his pickup truck hit an oncoming car on NC 242, killing the driver, of Red Road in White Oak, NC, according to fayobserver.com. The crash occurred about a mile south of Roseboro, NC. The…
A Sampson County, North Carolina (NC), man, age 47, was charged in early July 2011 with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving after his pickup truck hit an oncoming car on NC 242, killing the driver, of Red Road in White Oak, NC, according to fayobserver.com. The crash occurred about a mile south of Roseboro,…
It may seem like an obvious precaution to take, but in a summer dominated by the loss of life on Virginia’s waterways, a fisherman had drowned because he went in a boat without wearing a life vest. The drowning accident occurred on the Diascund Reservoir near Lanexa, the Virginia Gazette reported. Four men were fishing…