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 loss of a limb is a serious injury and can completely alter someone’s quality of life. If you’ve lost a leg or an arm in car crash, truck wreck, or some other major accident, the…
Between fashion magazines and reality television shows, we’re often left with the impression that plastic surgeons do little more than answer to the whims and superficial desires of spoiled…
The knee is a very complex part of the body, and it gets a lot of use. In fact, the knee is the largest joint in the body. This joint is made up of the lower end of the thigh bone, or femur, and…
When you think of Virginia you don’t think immediately of skyscrapers and highrises in the same way you might think of for New York, Philadelphia or Houston. Ironically, the tallest building in…
You’re approaching an intersection with a light that just turned red. You have a choice in this moment – step on the accelerator and hope to make it through without anyone noticing or…
Our injury law firm recently accepted a serious brain injury case on behalf of a driver who was in a horrible car accident which was caused by an ambulance/EMS service driver who ran a red light,…
The California Court of Appeals recently upheld a huge jury verdict for a railroad worker injured on the job. The case was Eric Doi v. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Doi sued Union Pacific…
The question of whether an injured person has a meritorious slip, trip and fall accident essentially depends on whether a business or property owner has maintained the premises or property in a…
A tractor-trailer carrying cows to a slaughterhouse slammed into an SUV on U.S. 421 outside of the town of Lillington, North Carolina (NC), just before midnight on March 7, 2010. Both the driver of…
There were 249 pedestrians killed in accidents in Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), and West Virginia (WV) combined in 2008. The loss of life in Florida (FL) was 490 in 2008, according to a study…
There is some chance that the Virginia General Assembly will finally pass this year an important improvement in the way that certain automobile insurance situations are handled. House Bill 93…
Trial lawyers are routinely demonized as “ambulance chasers” and “blood suckers” and we saw this type of attack on full display during the health care debate with baseless…
