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).…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Automation and budget-cutting have led many freight and passenger railroads across the United States to cut crew sizes. As a logical result of such staff reductions, many of the largest trains moving along the nation’s rails have only a single engineer in the locomotive—even those…
According to the American Cancer Society, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer. Although any diagnosis of cancer can be terrifying, skin cancer is often curable if it is recognized and treated early enough. However, a missed diagnosis can have fatal effects because…
Three people died on Aug. 14 in a single car crash in Raleigh NC at the intersection of Highwoods Blvd. and Poplarwood Court. The state police stated that the driver was under the influence of alcohol and swerved and overcorrected, veering off the left side…
Our Virginia personal injury law firm regularly shares reports regarding car accidents that were caused by distracted driving, drowsy driving, and drunk driving. In the majority of these auto accidents, victims suffered serious injuries, and tragically, we have also reported on countless accidents w
A just-published survey of automakers that sell vehicles in the United States shows that six have 2016 or 2017 models that feature the kinds of Takata airbags that are subject to a worldwide recall related to a fatal design flaw. According to an Aug. 22,…