A new law in Pennsylvania is starting this month that will require using technology to prevent drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel. Lawmakers say that more anti-drunk driving laws will be passed as well. It is hoped that this getting tough on drunk driving…
Every day in the United States, nine people are killed and more than 1,000 are seriously injured in car crashes caused by distracted drivers. Many safety advocates believe the number is much higher because many drivers don’t admit they were using their cell phones while…
Four people died in a two-car crash on US Highway 411 in Loudoun County, Tennessee on Aug. 27, the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported this morning. The fatal, head-on car accident occurred on Greenback near Cope Road in Loudoun County at 7 pm on Saturday. A GMC…
As a Virginia dangerous drug attorney, I have tracked the tragic consequences of the overprescribing and illegal sale of powerful prescription painkillers for more than two decades. Doctors, dentists and pharmacists who did too little to limit access to medications like OxyContin (oxycodone) and Vic
A 23-year-old man in Charlotte, North Carolina has been charged in a fatal DWI crash that killed a man on July 21. The DWI crash occurred at 1:45 AM on North Tryon Street in Charlotte. The Charlotte police stated that the man was driving his…
For the third time in two months, a driver got onto a major highway near Annapolis, Maryland and went in the wrong direction, then slammed into oncoming traffic. This time, two people died in a July 25 wrong-way crash on Route 50 near Annapolis. This…
A North Carolina woman was killed in a golf cart accident in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on July 27. According to the North Myrtle Beach police, the golf cart accident happened at 6 pm when the driver of a Toyota Camry swerved off the…
A woman in Chicago has been charged with drunk driving for an accident that killed her passenger on June 16 on the city’s west side. The woman was charged this week with a single count of aggravated DUI in a crash causing death, according to…
Ten people were thrown overboard when an Indiana boat driver lost control of her speed boat on July 15 on Lake Gage in Indiana. Several people suffered serious injuries, including a lower arm amputation and a skull fracture. The police allege that the driver was…
An NTSB report issued in late July 2017 “links speeding to 112,580 passenger vehicle highway crash fatalities between 2005-2014. To put that number in perspective, nearly the same number of people – 112,948 – died in alcohol-involved crashes in the same period.”
A federal jury in Chicago awarded a man who suffered a heart attack while using the testosterone replacement product AndroGel $150 million in punitive damages. With their July 24, 2017, decision, jurors found that AndroGel’s maker, AbbVie, misrepresented the risks of using the product. While…
A man from Durham, North Carolina was charged in a car accident on July 15 that killed a motorcyclist. Durham Police stated that a 1996 Cadillac Seville driven by Rodney McLaurin, 45, was turning left in Durham from Massey Ave. onto South Alston Ave. when…
