There was a law change in North Carolina in 2011, and medical malpractice suits have plunged 46%. But experts say there has been no statistical evidence to show that medical errors have dropped. According to a recent study by the medical journal BMJ, medical errors…
A 27 year old man died in an Oct. 7 van crash on I-495 in Knightdale NC when the van he was riding in ran off the highway, crashed and overturned. At approximately 1:30 AM, a 25 year old male was driving a 2004 Ford…
Driver safety advocates greeted a late-2015 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the use and design of underride guards on commercial trucks with mixed emotions. While all agreed that updating standards for which vehicles must carry the steel bars that pr
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…