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.
After a jury awarded $48 million to a former Union Pacific Railroad signalman who suffered paralysis, Union Pacific filed all kinds of legal motions to set aside the California jury’s verdict….
A Maine crane operator was awarded almost $5 million in damages by a judge as a result of injuries suffered in an electrical accident in a boatyard. Bryan Smith was operating a crane and moving…
An article written by my law partner John Cooper talks about the importance of finding and talking with key independent witnesses in the context of car/truck cases and premises liability/slip…
In my 20 years of handling automobile accident and insurance claims for injured persons in Virginia, I have come to realize the main reasons why a person should hire a specialized injury lawyer, if…
Because our Virginia/Carolina personal injury law firm only practices injury law we field weekly phone calls from personal injury victims with questions about how claims adjusters with car insurance…
I wrote a full article about a recent federal court decision out of Richmond, Virginia (within the Federal court circuit over West Virginia (WV), Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC) and South…
Most of the attorneys practicing railroad personal injury or wrongful death law have heard of the Geneva Convention, which resulted from efforts of the ILO. However, many railroad attorneys and…
My FELA railroad injury lawyer/colleague William (Bill) Kvas, a Minneapolis, Minnesota lawyer recently reported a $661,500 West Virginia (WV) FELA/railroad worker verdict recovered against…
Another major multi-million dollar verdict (November 18, 2008) against fentanyl patch distributors, this one out of Illinois for fentanyl patch defect causing an overdose death. I have been…
Our personal injury law firm is now investigating two separate fentanyl patch overdose death cases, both coincidentally occuring in North Carolina, and both involving the 75 mcg/hr dose patch…
The Food and Drug Administration issued a Public Health Advisory regarding the safe use of fentanyl pain patches, such as Duragesic, citing reports of deaths in patients using the fentanyl patch….
After practicing 20 years in Virginia (VA) in the field of car and truck accident law, I have seen how all of the insurance companies play games when people have been hurt on the road in a car…
