In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia Beach Injuryboard, my colleague John C. applauds Virginia (VA) high school sports officials for banning high-performance aluminum bats from baseball diamonds across the state. The move to take bats labeled BESR out of players’ hands and replace them with more-woodlike BBCOR-certified bats was prompted by desires to…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Injury/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro welcomes the publication of a model Adequate Sight Distance at Passive Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Act. The Federal Railroad Administration worked with state officials to draft the legislation for improving safety at primarily rural track-road intersections that lack gates or warning…
When a truck or commercial tractor-trailer accident occurs, the truck driver’s record is relevant. This is because usually the big rig is usually owned by a trucking company or some other type of corporate entity. The truck driver is operating the tractor-trailer because that’s the job he was hired to do and if he was…
A girl born at the naval hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), faces a lifetime of mental and physical disabilities stemming from cerebral palsy and other developmental problems. That much is indisputable. Other facts and conclusions from a birth injury lawsuit filed by the child’s parents against the federal government and the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center…
Kathryn Hollis suffered burns, shrapnel wounds and a traumatic brain injury in a major fireworks accident that propelled fireworks into a crowd, which included Mrs. Hollis. The explosion snapped one of her arms, set her hair on fire, and created 12 shrapnel wounds, according to the Sun Gazette. The fireworks were a multi-shot “cakebox” design…