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.
When vacationing on the Outer Banks you may have noticed that the water seems to taste a little different than your home tap. You may have even come to expect inconsistency in the taste of your…
Residents on the Outer Banks looking to repaint their homes in the towns of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head and Manteo should be careful regarding a recalled power sprayer by Wagner….
As an injury trial lawyer licensed over 20 years in the state of Virginia (VA) the sight of thick, patchy fog always worries me when thinking about other drivers on the road. On May 13,…
The steel rail from Charlotte to the coast that was synonymous with progress when its tracks were first laid in the 1850s is once again on the front-burner to the state’s plans – and once again…
The W.C. Witherspoon Memorial Library bookmobile was involved in an accident on May 4, 2009. A 1994 Ford pickup driven by 17 year-old Kyle Ray Lane of Elizabeth City, North Carolina lost…
A propane tank ruptured at a home in Nags Head at 12:06 p.m. on May 6, 2009. Dare County EMS and Nags Head Fire and Rescue were called to the home with a report of a propane explosion. The…
A Kinston, North Carolina (NC) man is recuperating only days after he was attacked my two menacing Pit Bulls that were apparently on the loose in his neighborhood. The victim, L.H. Clemmons, has…
19 year-old Joseph Williams is fighting for his life after losing his leg from a three car accident. Williams was changing his tire by the roadside around 8:PM on May 2, 2009 when a car driven by…
I just returned from the Buffalo, NY funeral of my good friend, Michael Doran, a successful personal injury lawyer from Buffalo, New York, who last week died in a Cirrus SR20 plane he was…
In 2007 Medtronic, the company that made Sprint Fidelis heart defibrillator cable stopped selling the product after five patients who had the cables died. But now that the cable is off of the…
If you pay attention to the dates when people are more likely to be killed or harmed by errors by hospital staff including nurses and doctors, you see a clear pattern in North Carolina and…
Swimming pools are such a large part of the summer in North Carolina and the Outer Banks (OBX). Children cannot get enough of the pool and other water attractions during the heat of their break…
