Eric Musial and his flight instructor, Amy Sipala, were injured when their single-engine airplane crashed in the Great Dismal Swap area of Suffolk, Virginia (VA). Mr. Musial was learning how to...
A multi-engine Beechcraft B200 King Air airplane crashed before arriving at the runway of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in South Carolina (SC). Three people were injured including...
Railroad workers are hard working individuals, in a physically demanding and strenuous job. Although there is a belief that unsafe and poor work conditions are a occupational hazard, no one should...
The Railroad Safety Appliance Act (49 U.S.C section 20301-20303) which was enacted in 1893, made air brakes and automatic couplers mandatory for all railroad trains in the United States. The Act...
Five airplanes were practicing for an aerial demonstration. Everything was going smoothly until the very end. One of the five planes failed to properly pull up while in descent and crashed...
The tragedy surrounding the Washington, D.C. Metro line was compounded when 63-year-old Metro employee Michael Nash was killed after being struck in the head by gravel propelled by a Metro...
A jury in Tennessee (TN) awarded Joe Allen, a conductor for Norfolk Southern $1.5 million dollars after Allen filed a lawsuit stating he injured his Coccyx and re-aggravated a low-back injury...
A man named Daniel L. Willis of Escanaba, Minnesota was aboard the Joseph L. Block when it docked to offload limestone in 2004. As the ship pulled up to the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway,...
When you're driving on a major highway, you should know to pass on the left, and keep slow traffic to the right. Although this is common knowledge to those on the road, the rules of the water are...
Transit officials and analysts have uncovered a vital piece of information that may have led to the Metro accident on June 22, 2009. Five days prior to the collision, a piece of equipment created...
Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp is dedicated to representing those injured due to the carelessness and fault of others. The firm has achieved many record breaking settlements and verdicts since being established in 1985, handling car accident injuries, truck wreck injuries, railroad accidents, faulty product injuries, medical malpractice and wrongful death claims. Our team of lawyers have represented thousands of accident injury victims while relying on decades of combined legal experience. We fight for a level playing field in the civil justice system which includes enforcing civil rights and equality under the law for all our clients.