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.
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…
The Commonwealth of Virginia begins its fiscal year on July 1, meaning — some would say ironically — that each year, Virginians welcome a new slate of laws at the same time that they prepare to…
Most people have heard about the infamous McDonald’s hot coffee personal injury case. Many tort reform advocates point to that case as an example of a “frivolous” lawsuit and…
A bike rider was injured after being hit by a vehicle traveling down Shore Drive in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) this weekend. The car was trying to avoid hitting another vehicle on the road when…
A misguided effort to control health care costs in North Carolina by making it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice and surgical errors to receive adequate and fair compensation for…
People who live in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), and all over Hampton Roads are fortunate that for the second year in a row, Sentara Healthcare has been ranked as the most integrated health care system in…
