A 72-year-old man and his 78-year-old wife were taken to the hospital with serious injuries after they drove their pickup truck into a train being operated by the RJ Corman freight company that had stopped on CSX-owned tracks in Versailles, Kentucky (KY). The accident occurred on the U.S. 60 Bypass around the city just after…
The federal appeals court in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), on December 8, 2011, upheld a $900,000 malpractice award a woman from Portsmouth had won from Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center. In the original case, stemming from a botched Caesarean section conducted to deliver the woman’s fourth child in 2005, the woman and her Norfolk attorney, Kim Michelle…
In a post to our personal injury firm’s Virginia Trucking Accident/Injury Blog, lawyer Kevin Duffan reports on a head-on collision between a Sussex County sheriff deputy’s cruiser and another vehicle that sent both the deputy and the other driver to the hospital with serious injuries. Kevin notes that the officer had been responding to a…
A young St. Stephens, South Carolina (SC), child required hospital treatment for injuries suffered in a traffic accident that occurred on December 8, 2011, and literally across the street from J.K. Gourdin Elementary School on State Highway 45. Fortunately, none of the other 18 students on the bus got hurt. View a larger map of…
In September 2011, television’s Dr. Mehmet Oz claimed that apple juice frequently contains dangerous levels of arsenic. Later, Consumer Reports conducted a study that proved the claim true. Researchers found that 10 percent of sampled juice contained arsenic and lead levels that exceeded federal standards. Juice was purchased from grocery stores in New York, New Jersey, and…