The California Court of Appeals recently upheld a huge jury verdict for a railroad worker injured on the job. The case was Eric Doi v. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Doi sued Union Pacific…
Virginia Beach Police took nine drunk or drugged drivers off the city’s roads and interstates March 17. The date of the DUI crackdown, St. Patrick’s Day, was significant, as the feast day of…
The multi-billion dollar drug company, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), has come under fire for allegedly violating the rules in their marketing of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug. Back in 1999,…
The question of whether an injured person has a meritorious slip, trip and fall accident essentially depends on whether a business or property owner has maintained the premises or property in a…
A tractor-trailer carrying cows to a slaughterhouse slammed into an SUV on U.S. 421 outside of the town of Lillington, North Carolina (NC), just before midnight on March 7, 2010. Both the driver of…
A 16-year-old Kempsville High School varsity baseball player lost his life early Sunday morning, March 7, when the car he was riding in ran off the road and hit a tree in the Pleasant Point section…
There were 249 pedestrians killed in accidents in Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), and West Virginia (WV) combined in 2008. The loss of life in Florida (FL) was 490 in 2008, according to a study…
There is some chance that the Virginia General Assembly will finally pass this year an important improvement in the way that certain automobile insurance situations are handled. House Bill 93…
Trial lawyers are routinely demonized as “ambulance chasers” and “blood suckers” and we saw this type of attack on full display during the health care debate with baseless…
So far, over 8.5 million Toyota cars have been recalled and company executives proclaimed the problem would be fixed with a steel reinforcement rod to be placed on their gas pedals. Well, that…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the company that makes Poligrip denture cream, is facing hundreds of lawsuits over some of its products, including Super Poligrip Original, Ultra Fresh and Extra Care….
An extensive national study was conducted in 2006 which indicates over roughly 1.5 million Americans are seriously injured or killed by medication errors, according to the Washington Post. Some…