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• Is The Highway Shoulder Really A Safe Stopping Place?

  Rick Shapiro | April 15, 2006 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Is it safe to pull over on the shoulder of a highway to change a tire, change drivers, get something out of the trunk, or even to be pulled over by a police officer?Based on my experience as an injury lawyer, the answer is a resounding "no." If you can, get off the busy highway first, or at least pull all the way off the shoulder at an exit ramp where the main traffic is not blasting by your...

• The Most Dangerous Days of The Year Are??

  John Cooper | April 12, 2006 10:33 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Monday, April 3, 2006 was a dangerous day on the road. Every Monday following the conversion back to daylight savings time in the Spring is a heavy day for traffic accidents. The problem is that everyone is an hour short of sleep and in a rush. This results in a statistical increase in the number of car wrecks. I hope you made it through the day okay.Another dangerous time is to be in the...

• New Court Decision Holds Hotels Liable For Many Criminal Attacks

  Rick Shapiro | March 26, 2006 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  It is reasonable for the law to impose upon the innkeeper, and on the common carrier, a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect his guests against injury caused by the criminal conduct on the part of other guests or strangers if the danger of injury by such conduct is known to the innkeeper or reasonably foreseeable...." In March, 2006, the Virginia Supreme Court announced a...

• VA Beach Officer Injured in Motorcycle Accident

  Staff Writer | March 01, 2006 6:55 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A Virginia Beach police officer was injured Monday morning when a car made a left turn in front of him. Officer Troy Cornett was traveling north on Princess Anne Road around 8:30 AM when Mary Homesly pulled out in front of him while making a left turn from Newstead Drive. The force of the crash threw Cornett from his motorcycle. At last report, he was at the hospital in stable...

• State Rejects Memorial At Site of Trucking Accident

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 7:12 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The state of Virginia recently struck down proposed memorials at the sites of three fatal trucking accidents. While this might sound ridiculous - that the state wouldn't allow memorials at the sites of fatal crashes - the catch is that the memorials were proposed by People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The animal rights group had proposed memorials at sites in Suffolk and Isle...

• New Brain Injury Imaging Method Introduced

  Staff Writer | February 17, 2006 7:23 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Bruce Stern over at the Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog notes that a team of doctors at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new technique for Traumatic Brain Injury imaging.Bruce summarizes that the testshows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates. Test subjects heads were placed in the soft netting. They were then asked to raise and lower their heads about an inch...

• Jury Awards $1.8 Million for Docking Injury

  Jim Lewis | August 02, 2009 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A man named Daniel L. Willis of Escanaba, Minnesota was aboard the Joseph L. Block when it docked to offload limestone in 2004. As the ship pulled up to the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway,...

• Motorcycle and Bicycle Injuries Connected to Drivers Inability to See Cyclist on Road

  John Cooper | July 09, 2009 8:31 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  In an accident involving cars and a motorcyclist or bicyclist, car drivers commonly state they never saw the cyclist. Many times, motorists are usually on the lookout for other cars, not...

• Independent Panel Finds Virginia Tech Mishandled Student Cho Massacre

  Rick Shapiro | September 27, 2007 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  As parents, we think we've done our jobs well when our children turn 18 and go off to college. At college, we expect they will be safe and secure- safe to have a happy college experience and prepare for a bright future. This is what the parents of dozens of Virginia Tech students expected when they sent their children off to college. And tragically, this is not what happened. On April 16,...

• New Methods to Detect Brain Injury Explained

  Staff Writer | March 22, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  For the last several decades, doctors and hospitals have used a device called a pulse oximeter to measure the amount of oxygen in someone's blood during medical procedures and surgeries. The purpose of this device is to ensure that while the patient is unresponsive due to anesthesia, he does not suffer a brain injury because of loss of oxygen in the blood. The pulse...