A carrier with the Fayetteville Observer newspaper was impaled on a wrought-iron fence for more than two hours last Monday. According to Fayetteville Police the victim was a man named Kevin Williams, 51. He was treated at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and was released to recover at home. The newspaper carrier mistakenly threw a…
One unfortunate consequence of osteoporosis is hip fractures. Thankfully, for the past two decades the rate of hip fractures has fallen drastically in Canada. A very similar pattern has been occurring in the United States. However, the cause of these trends is unknown. Factors that may be reasons as to why the rate of hip…
Recently, a Beaufort County worker had to be rescued after he fell out of his cherry-picker. The worker, not identified, had dropped about 8 feet last Wednesday afternoon. Fortunately his safety harness kicked in stopping his fall. According to authorities the worker was quickly rescued and taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The workplace…
My colleague Rick Shapiro wrote an article about a recent federal court decision out of Richmond, Virginia (VA) — which also has jurisdiction in West Virginia (WV), North Carolina (NC), and South Carolina (SC) — in which the federal judge denied a motion to dismiss a delivery driver’s personal injury lawsuit against a Firestone Tire…
The problem of humans slipping or tripping and falling has been around along time even longer than lawyers have worked on such cases.
Authored by: John C.