A jury in Dallas awarded a man $17.5 million after he lost all his limbs due to a MRSA infection he acquired while in the hospital. This malpractice suit was one of the largest in Texas but a $250,000 “cap of non-economic damages” reduced to amount to under $7 million. After receiving surgery to treat…
Most people in Virginia (VA) drive to get to work or run daily errands not expecting to die because of road defects. While making that commute or riding in the car, individuals trust that the roads are safe for both them and their families. However, unforeseeable dangers may exist on the roadways that could catch…
Michael Ortiz, 21, a Navy man stationed at Oceana Air Station, and Eric Clay Hallstrom, 29, an off-duty Norfolk Police Officer, died when the vehicle they were riding in changed lanes, went off the road into the median, struck several trees and then overturned. Both men were ejected from the car which made it unclear…
Does it matter if your injury lawyer files a DC Metro crash lawsuit/case in Maryland, Washington DC, or Virginia courts? The answer may be, yes, it may make a big difference. For example, cases filed in Washington, DC do not have any cap or ceiling on damages in such Metro personal injury cases. On the…
DC Metro Crash-NTSB inspecting Railroad/Train track sensor and control systems In a continuing series of articles about the DC Metro crash, as of Friday, June 26, 2009 Metro was manually checking all of the 3000 circuits in the Metro rail system because the National Transportation Safety Board pinpointed a problem in these systems that could…