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.
A lot of people are afraid to fly. There’s something about the idea of hurtling through the air that just doesn’t sit well with them. Maybe it’s the height. Maybe it’s the…
Nursing homes for elderly or infirm loved ones are an unfortunate, but sometimes necessary, reality. Many family’s come to discover that as their loved ones age, they require care that their family…
Beacon Shores Nursing Home, located at 340 Lynn Shores Drive in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) is set to lose its Medicare funding in May. The facility failed to improve its level of treatment and…
Is politics trumping good governance in Virginia (VA), and many other states? One could make such a claim. Republican VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed a lawsuit against the federal…
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…
