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 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…
So far, over 8.5 million Toyota cars have been recalled and company executives proclaimed the problem would be fixed with a steel reinforcement rod to be placed on their gas pedals. Well, that…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the company that makes Poligrip denture cream, is facing hundreds of lawsuits over some of its products, including Super Poligrip Original, Ultra Fresh and Extra Care….
Recently, the New York Times published an article telling the story of Scott Jerome-Parks. Jerome-Parks was diagnosed with tongue cancer, and doctors recommended radiation therapy to treat his…
In Virginia a recent development in automobile speed restrictions has had many concerned as to the safety of those on the road throughout the state. Virginia will likely raise its speed limit on…
A bus driver, who hit and killed a teen operating a motorcycle in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (SC), was charged this week for failing to yield the right of way, according to WCIV-TV. The accident,…
A man driving on Warwick Boulevard in Newport News, Virginia (VA), died Wednesday afternoon after his car crashed into a van turning left onto Nettles Drive. The Daily Press reported the accident on…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into the possibility that the root of the gas pedal problem in Toyota cars is in the electronic throttle control system…
This article briefly outlines one perspectiveon when medical professionals including doctors/physicians should consider prescribing Fentanyl or Duragesic pain patches to their patients. This article…
