Slips on snow or ice can be painful, but they are seldom fatal. Tragically, though, a slip on Interstate 64 overpass in early 2010 led to the death of pedestrian when he fell onto the roadway below. The family of Manuel Albert “Manny” Rubio, 40, a physicist at NASA Langley Research Center, is suing the…
It’s the kind of harrowing tragedy that no parent wants to think about. An accident in which a child died after falling off a fifth-floor balcony at an oceanfront hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) on Friday night, June 17, 2011, has highlighted how dangerous balconies can be for young children. The toddler fell from a…
A PetSmart in Virginia settled a lawsuit brought by a Poquoson, Virginia (VA) man who was injured when he slipped and fell on dog poop in the Newport News store, according to the Virginian-Pilot. The victim was a customer at the Jefferson Avenue store in VA on January 18, 2009 when he slipped and suffered…
The University of Virginia community was shocked Monday, March 28, 2011, when it learned of the death of a UVA liberal arts and science student who fell to his death from the roof of the school’s Physics Building. Nineteen-year-old Thomas W. Gilliam IV lost his life in an incident campus police are calling a “tragic…
An incident in which a man slipped on dog feces at a PetsMart store in Newport News, Virginia (VA), has proved to be costly for the retail chain. Robert W. Holloway, of Poquoson, Virginia, and PetSmart, which runs the store on Jefferson Avenue in the Patrick Henry area, arrived at the undisclosed terms out of…