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Young Woman Killed in Horrific Head-On Collision

A head-on collision in Mint Spring, Virginia killed one driver on Route 11 at Stagecoach Road in Mint Spring, Virginia killed one driver and has left the other driver with “life-threatening” injuries. According to Virginia State Police, at approximately 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, a 2006…

By Richard Shapiro

/ 12 Oct 2016

Survivors of Deadly Bus Crash Sue Church

Twelve football players and several coaches who survived a bus crash in North Carolina are suing the church that operated the bus. The lawsuit filed last week stated that Sandy River Baptist Church in Chester County NC did not maintain the bus and its tires…

By Randy Appleton

/ 12 Oct 2016

Teen Killed in 2 Car Accident In Franklin County NC

An 18 year old woman was riding in the back seat of a friend’s Toyota on Oct. 2 when the driver ran a stop sign and slammed into another vehicle. The accident occurred in Frankline County NC at Pilot-Riley Road. A witness said the car…

By Randy Appleton

/ 12 Oct 2016

Domino’s Pizza Sued for $100 Million in Wrongful Death Case

The family of a Wilmington NC man who was struck and killed by a distracted Domino’s driver in May 2016 filed a $100 million wrongful death suit against the pizza company. On the same day that the pizza delivery driver pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter…

By Randy Appleton

/ 3 Oct 2016

Disney Vacation Nightmare as Car Crash Kills Parents

A family from Missouri had been saving money for months to take their daughters to Disney World, but a tragic car crash during the vacation killed the parents and seriously injured their daughters in Florida. The parents had just wrapped up a visit to Disney…

By Randy Appleton

/ 3 Oct 2016

Railroad Worker Claims Benzene, Creosote-Coated Rail Ties Caused His Leukemia

An interesting railroad worker cancer lawsuit is currently under way in Illinois. The plaintiff, who began working on tracks and in rail yards during the late 1970s for a company that was later purchased by Union Pacific, is now dying from acute myeloid leukemia (AML).…

By Richard Shapiro

/ 29 Sep 2016

New Takata Airbag Danger: Transportation of the Removed Components

Last month, 67-year-old Lucila Robles was killed in Quemado, Texas when a tractor trailer failed to negotiate a curve and crashed near the dead woman’s home and exploded. The explosion caused the truck to become engulfed in flames, which spread to the home and also…

By Richard Shapiro

/ 25 Sep 2016

Four Killed in North Carolina Bus Crash

A bus driver, two football players and a 10 year old died after a bus carrying a junior college football team from South Carolina crashed on US Highway 74 near Hamlet NC. The North Carolina State Police stated that the left front tire blew on…

By Randy Appleton

/ 24 Sep 2016

Did State Farm Unfairly Influence a Judge’s Election to Avoid Paying Billions?

State Farm car insurance policyholders received a partial answer to their nearly two-decade-old, billion-dollar question over the insurance company’s responsibility for paying a class action judgment on Sept. 16, 2016. On that date, a federal judge in State Farm’s home state of Illinois certified a…

By Richard Shapiro

/ 23 Sep 2016

Charlotte Drunk Driver Charged with Murder

A 79 year old woman from Columbia in South America was enjoying a vacation in North Carolina in late August when she was killed in Charlotte by a drunk driver with several DUI convictions. The elderly woman from South America was in a car with…

By Randy Appleton

/ 18 Sep 2016

Study Reveals Major Spike in Number of Young Concussion Victims

According to a study conducted by the independent, nonprofit organization Fair Health, the number of concussion diagnoses in children and teens under the age of 22 increased by an incredible 500 percent between the year of 2010 through 2014. National statistics reveal that between one…

By Legal Examiner Staffer

/ 16 Sep 2016

Alleged Drunk Driver in Raleigh NC Kills 3

A district court judge in Wake County NC told a suspected DUI driver in court last week that he could spend 70 years in prison if convicted for drunk driving and various felonies stemming from a weekend wreck in Raleigh that left three dead. In…

By Richard Shapiro

/ 5 Sep 2016