Results: $375,000 (confidential terms) Court: A Circuit Court (confidential) Date: September 2022 ATTORNEYS: Richard N. Shapiro STAFF: Paula S. WHAT HAPPENED: Our railroad worker client was 63 years old when he was diagnosed with a blood cancer. He had retired from work as a railroad machinist and railroad hostler and had worked for…
RESULTS: $400,000 (confidential terms) COURT: Court location confidential DATE: Fall, 2022 ATTORNEYS: Richard N. Shapiro STAFF: Paula S. WHAT HAPPENED: Our client was a 57-year-old railroad worker who was a foreman at a railroad yard. There was a particular piece of equipment (confidential) that was not working correctly and which had been written up…
RESULTS: $675,000 Settlement COURT: (Confidential) Virginia Circuit Court DATE: October 20, 2022 ATTORNEYS: Richard N. Shapiro and Eric K. Washburn STAFF: Paula S. WHAT HAPPENED: A 38-year-old woman was treated by an OB/GYN after having undergone a tubal ligation. The OB/GYN physician recommended a total hysterectomy which was done in 2018. The…
Amount: $975,000 (settled) Firm Attorneys: Kevin Sharp, Eric Washburn Court: Virginia Circuit Court Date resolved: September 2022 WHAT HAPPENED Our client was operating his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia in January 2022, when a commercial delivery truck, attempting to make a left-hand turn at an intersection, pulled directly into the…
Court: Virginia Circuit Court October 2022 Attorneys: Eric K. Washburn and Kevin Sharp WHAT HAPPENED Our client, a long-haul tractor-trailer driver from Georgia, was delivering lumber for the first time to a lumber distributor in Hampton, Virginia in late 2019. He checked in with the distributor’s delivery foreman and was directed to pull onto…
