Randy Appleton has decades of experience practicing personal injury law. He has handled complex injury lawsuits in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
When a medical malpractice claim is filed, it is not uncommon for the physician’s insurance company to offer a settlement to the victim – or the victim’s family if the malpractice killed the victim – in order to avoid litigating the claim in court and…
The interstate beltway around Raleigh, North Carolina (NC), just served as the site of one of the most-recent deadly head-on collisions in the Tar Heel State. A little before 3 am on November 4, 2017, a Mazda driver headed east in the westbound lanes of…
A mother and daughter from East Tennessee died in a crash on I-40 in North Carolina with a driver who was driving on the wrong side of the interstate. Joyce R. Smallen, 72, and her daughter Ronda Hanson, 49, both from Loudon, North Carolina, were…
A circuit court judge in Florida this week sentenced a tractor-trailer driver to life in prison plus 15 years for DUI manslaughter in the deaths of two women from Naples, Florida. The 34 and 35-year-old women were killed in 2011 by the drunk truck driver as they…
A concrete bucket truck slammed into an SUV in Hamilton, Ohio and killed a woman in an SUV on Oct. 24. It has been determined that the truck driver did not have a valid commercial driver’s license at the time. The concrete bucket truck was going…
One type of pedestrian accident that often has tragic consequences yet could be almost entirely avoidable are backover accidents. These accidents usually occur in parking lots and driveways as a vehicle driver is driving in reverse and hits a person standing or walking behind the…
A pedestrian and bicyclist safety program run by the North Carolina Department of Transportation appears to be reducing the number of car accidents and has received an achievement award from the Governor’s Highway Safety Association. The program is called Watch For Me NC, and it…
A man from Pamplico, South Carolina has been charged with felony DUI after a fatal accident on Oct. 1 that left a Florance County, South Carolina woman dead. South Carolina state troopers stated that the 30-year-old suspected drunk driver drove his vehicle left of center…
Labor Day weekend marks the end of the summer and a return to school. According to AAA, Labor Day also marks the end of the “100 deadliest days” for teen drivers. Statistics show that the 100 days between Memorial Day in May and Labor Day…
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 19-year-old in North Carolina is facing charges after a pickup truck accident killed two teenagers on June 13, according to a North Caroline state trooper. The fatal, one-vehicle pickup accident happened in Balsam Grove, North Carolina, which is a remote area of Transylvania County. There…
