My colleague Rick Shapiro has written a new post for our firm’s VA/NC Wrongful Death Lawyers blog site about a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against Virginia Tech, The Commonwealth of Virginia, acting on behalf of the university, has agree to pay $250,000 to the family of a student who committed suicide. The family…
I could have written this blog post any time over the past 40 years. And that goes a long way toward explaining why I’m writing it now, in early December 2011. Asbestos, banned by the U.S. federal government for nearly every industrial and construction purpose since the late 1970s, keeps turning up in, of all…
Two young Hampton, Virginia (VA), children are recovering from injuries after a dog bit them on November 26, 2011. According to WAVY-TV 10, the kids were playing with the unleashed pet when, for unknown reasons, the animal attacked. The younger of the children, a 6-year-old, required hospital treatment for bites to both arms. The dog was…
When a pickup truck struck a moped that was speeding across U.S. 29 in Piedmont, South Carolina (SC), on November 25, 2011, the 13-year-old passenger died almost instantly and the motorbike’s driver suffered severe injuries. State police speaking with the Independent Mail noted that neither of the young people on the moped were wearing helmets….
A Virginia truck driver was charged with reckless driving following a chain-reaction accident on I-95 that involved five vehicles.