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.
In suburban, semi- to mostly rural cities like Chesapeake, Suffolk and the southern half of Virginia Beach, people need to have access to a car to shop, go to appointments with doctors and physical…
Nationally bridges and bridge approaches have been identified as one of the leading locations for severe, single-vehicle crashes. Many of these structures were built decades ago for roads of…
What scares you? Ghosts? Goblins? Witches? More ordinary and real things like spiders or snakes? How about drunk drivers on Halloween? You should definitely be concerned about that last,…
Imagine coming home to find you have no home. That’s what happened when a log truck ran off the road around 9:15 a.m., and into a house at Sherrill’s Ford Road in Salisbury, North Carolina…
Have you ever been on the interstate and seen someone pull over, back up and actually try to get off the exit they just missed? I have, several times and it burns me up. It’s at those times…
During a recent ECU home football game at Greenville’s Dowdy-Ficklen stadium several Pirate fans were injured when multiple rows of bleachers gave way. East Carolina University quickly released a…
After over 20 years of representing personal injury victims and their families who have had their lives changed forever in all sorts of terrible accidents, I am here to offer a unique perspective…
The traffic enforcement cameras installed at key intersections in Chesapeake such as Battlefield Boulevard/Atlantic Avenue and Campostella Road and George Washington and South Military highways…
Personal injury jury trials are vanishing in our country. What are the causes of this slow extinction? Read below to learn my opinion on this issue. Despite the dire proclamations of tort reform…
The United States Coast Guard, a military branch of the armed forces under the Department of Homeland Security, is comprised of nearly 42,000 men and women on active duty and carries out a variety…
Many of us recall that Dennis and Kimberly Quaid went through a medical malpractice nightmare involving their twins back in 2007, but I was compelled to revisit what happened to the Quaid twins, and…
Medicated driving is one of the most widely ignored problems in the United States today. It is quite interesting that while drunk drivers are widely condemned and incarcerated for taking the wheel…
