The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is looking to transition from airplane accident analysis to airplane accident prevention. The NTSB wants to expand to analyze and combat developing safety threats. For example, rather than focusing on the contributing factors of an airplane crash, board officials would put a much higher priority on collecting and studying…
Shapiro, Washburn & Sharpis pleased to report that our law firm was able to secure a $3.5 million settlement in a wrongful death case regarding a fatal truck accident and a Portsmouth, Virginia, man. The truck accident took place on I-264 in Norfolk, Virginia, when a truck driver slammed into the back of a 25-year-old…
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In two days, four lives were lost and four families were changed forever. To make matters even worse, two of the lost lives were children. One was a 7-year-old child who was hit by a car in Sanford, North Carolina (NC) and the other was a 6-year-old child who was involved in a car crash…
A North Carolina family has won a wrongful death lawsuit against a chewing tobacco company and won $5 million in damages. The woman’s husband died of mouth cancer after using smokeless tobacco since he was 13 years old.