My law partner Jim Lewis has recently done an article on airplane accidents/crashes. Here is an excerpt from the article: Hopefully, you will never experience the trauma of being involved in an airplane accident or crash. However, if someone you know has been through such a disaster, the aviation/aircraft injury lawyers at Shapiro & Appleton&…
My law partner John C. wrote an interesting top ten list of the ways trackmen and laborers, as well as other railroad workers, get hurt on CSX or Norfolk Southern (NS). I think you may find it interesting reading whether you have a railroad injury claim or not. Please click here to read the railroad…
A very good discussion about the deadlines for bringing a medical malpractice claim/lawsuit where the surgeon and hospital has left surgical supplies (such as a sponge, piece of a tool, or a small surgical towel) inside a patient’s body after an operation, has been posted by a lawyer at our firm. In reading this…
According to an article in the Virginian Pilot, a 3-to 4-foot wave struck the side of an 18 foot boat, stalling its engine before it overturned in the Chesapeake Bay on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. Two Arizona fishermen – Allen Dedrick, 69, and Ned Rokey, 89 – died when they were dumped into the 45-degree…
In a December 2008 edition of the Norfolk, Virginia (VA) based paper, The Virginian Pilot, the business section reported that Norfolk Southern Railroad (NS) was cutting costs by reducing the number of workers and other measures aimed to keep corporate profits and stock prices high.