Medical errors kill between 250,000 and 440,000 patients in the United States each year. The lower estimate of the terrible toll taken by the mistakes of doctors, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers comes from researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The group tabulated deadly outcomes from “1) an error in judgment, skill, or…
A bicyclist has been awarded a $3 million settlement after years of pain following his accident. Four years ago, the man was traveling across a street on a crosswalk with a green light in his direction when a motorist illegally turned right on red and crashed into the cyclist. The man was thrown from his…
Virginia has long had a tough reputation for penalizing drunk drivers after being convicted. Such laws as mandatory minimum jail sentences, mandatory suspension of your driver’s license and completion of the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program (VASAP) have been in force for many years. But in 2012, Virginia law got even tougher on convicted drunk drivers. That was the year…
In this day of the global internet and prevalent attorney advertising on TV and radio, we take pride in our efforts to deal promptly and directly with our clients. We have taken calls on several occasions from people who were represented in prior cases by larger, more aggressively advertising personal injury law firms who were…