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The 9/11 tragedy affected all of us in one way or another, and the impact reaches beyond just those people living and working in NYC or the Pentagon. Volunteers from all over traveled to ground…
With temperatures soaring into the 90s here in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA), kids are sure to be looking for fun ways to keep cool and those low cost, low effort inflatable pools available at…
With June in full swing, those of us who live on the Atlantic Coast have now officially entered Hurricane season, which peaks between August and October and lasts until the end of November. During…
The outskirts of Virginia Beach, VA, where the subdivisions of the city give way to the countryside, have become a front line in a battle that has left many injured. Pungo, in particular, has seen a…
Virginia (VA) drivers beware … Interestingly enough, it appears that June 10th is the second deadliest day for teen drivers after studying five years worth of data. While the reasons for this…
Several accidents involving school buses have recently occurred in the southeast Virginia (VA) and northeast North Carolina (NC). The most recent occurred last week in Suffolk, Virginia, and…
Spring fever is in the air and as of February, 2011, Swimways Corp., a maker of outdoor toys and furniture located in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA), issued a recall of its Kristi G Go & Grow…
For the last several decades, doctors and hospitals have used a device called a pulse oximeter to measure the amount of oxygen in someone’s blood during medical procedures and surgeries. The purpose of this device is to ensure that while the patient is unresponsive due to anesthesia, he does not suf
By: James C. Lewis, HSCLA AttorneyIt may come as a surprise but 2 million patients residing in hospitals get hospital-acquired infections every year. Infection stalls recovery, sometimes requiring weeks of intravenous antibiotics or a grueling round of surgeries to remove the infected tissue. Approx
Any “crisis” that may have existed in the medical malpractice insurance industryis now reported to be officially over according to a recent study released by the non-profit group Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR). According to this report, rates ofmedical malpractice insurance coverage have seen
Virginia continues to have a lower rate of serious disciplinary actions against its doctors than most states. According to the non-profit research group, Public Citizen, the rate of serious disciplinary actions against doctors in Virginia has fallen consistently over the last four years. The organiz
The thought of a surgeon taking a scalpel to the wrong limb or patient sends chills down the spine of anyone who has been admitted to the hospital. Eighty-four cases of what’s known in the business as “wrong site surgery” were reported in the United States last year. But that’s just the “tip of the
