It was the last ATV ride of the day for a 17-year-old from North Carolina, and he didn’t wear his helmet. Sadly, that omission proved fatal for the Ashe County, NC, teen when he lost control…
If you are injured as a result of someone else’s failure to exercise reasonable care, you can bring a straightforward negligence lawsuit, right? Well, not so fast. Your ability to recover…
The 9/11 tragedy affected all of us in one way or another, and the impact reaches beyond just those people living and working in NYC or the Pentagon. Volunteers from all over traveled to ground…
According to the Daily Press, the Virginia State Supreme Court, which has been has been short-staffed since the retirement of Justice Lawrence Koontz Jr. and the death of Justice Leroy R. Hassell…
The tradition of having first-year medical residents work 24-hour shifts has long raised concerns that sleep deprivation has caused errors that harmed or killed patients. Acknowledging those…
Parents of 19-year-old Heather Lerch grew worried one night when they had not heard from their daughter who was two hours late coming home. After calling her cell phone and going straight to…
A day after two bullet trains ran into each in northern China, firefighters found an unconscious toddler in the wreckage and rushed the child to a hospital. They were able to save the little boy,…
The busing industry has faced much criticism for the many passenger and driver lives lost in tour bus accidents during the firt seven months of 2011. Fifteen people died when a bus crashed in…
Last week, a 6 year old girl was attacked by a shark at Ocracoke beach. This type of attack is a rare and unexpected tragedy for our normally relaxing shorelines, filled with families and…
The weekend of July 22-24, 2011, brought northeastern North Carolina and southestern Virginia a short break from the suffocating heat wave that had gripped much of the country, but summer and its…
As experienced Virginia accident injury attorneys, we regularly report on accidents caused by impaired drivers. As recently as July 23, 2011, a man was seriously injured after he wrecked his car in…
Social media is here to stay and Facebook posts are becoming red meat in signficant injury and wrongful death cases-not only in Virginia (VA) but nationwide. What you say or post may be used to…