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As an experienced lawyer handling injury cases and wrongful death against railroads including Metro commuter train systems, I know what a big difference the choice of the appropriate court can make. In essence, the rules that would relate to a case can be different depending upon where the accident happened, i.e. was it still within Washington, D.C. as opposed to across the line of the District in the State of Maryland (MD).

Several sailboats have become entangled in overhead power lines in St. Julian’s Creek in Chesapeake, VA. Four vessels have struck the power lines in the last 7 years and 2 of those
have caught fire and sunk, resulting in injuries and one fatality (2007).

An attempt to make penalties for causing bus accident injuries harsher has failed in the West Virginia Legislature. A similar bill involving bus accident punishments failed last year.

After a boat capsized in near Murrells Inlet on the Waccamaw River, six people were thrown overboard and three drowned. An infant remains in critical condition days after the boat accident.