Richard N. Shapiro (Rick) is a personal injury trial attorney, American inventor, and international award-winning fiction author. One of his co-authored legal treatises was published in the American Jurisprudence “Trials” Law Encyclopedia.
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…
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…
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…
A deadly highway merging accident in central South Carolina has the potential to bring even greater suffering to a family who lost two children or to a tractor-trailer driver who suffered injuries…
The NFL knew as early as the 1920s of the harmful effects on a player’s brain of concussions; however, until June of 2010 they concealed these facts from coaches, trainers, players and the…
A wrong-way accident has claimed two lives in Nash County, North Carolina, the Virginian-Pilot reports. A driver heading the wrong way on U.S. 64 crashed into an oncoming vehicle. The driver and a…
Millions in the United States, including many in Virginia Beach, VA, were riveted to their television set over the July 4th holiday weekend watching the prosecution and defense deliver closing…
A law that took effect July 1, 2011, allows Virginia (VA) motorcycle, moped and bike riders to run red lights in certain situations. Normally, clists are restricted to following the same rules of…
