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• Electronic Cigarettes Not an “Alternative” to Cigarettes, Use Ingredient Found in Antifreeze

  Jim Lewis | July 23, 2009 9:12 PM | 2 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The FDA performed an analysis of increasingly popular electronic cigarettes (also known as e-cigarettes). The analysis found carcinogens and toxic chemicals including diethylene glycol, which is...

• So Often Misunderstood: Virginia Uninsured Motorist Insurance Law

  Rick Shapiro | March 07, 2006 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Uninsured motorist coverage is probably the most misunderstood form of car insurance in the State in Virginia and probably in most other states as well. I have had injured clients tell me that they are not happy about having to pay money for darn uninsured motorists operating on the Virginia highways. What they do not realize is that the uninsured motorist coverage on their own car insurance...

• One More Reason Surgical Sponges/Towels Left Inside Patients Create Obvious Liability For Hospitals and Surgeons: Sponge Count Technology Can Reduce These “Never Events”

  Rick Shapiro | May 28, 2009 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Any surgical towels, sponges or medical devices left inside a patient causing infection, septic shock or even death is a good cause for concern at hospitals and surgical centers in Virginia (VA),...

• Hospital sanctioned for serious surgical errors

  John Cooper | November 11, 2009 5:40 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A Rhode Island hospital is expected to pay $150,000 in fines after a surgeon operated on the wrong part of the body – not for the first time. Rhode Island Hospital in Providence is the...

• Motorcycle Crash in Chesapeake Claims a Life, Shatters Another

  Emily Mapp Brannon | October 14, 2009 11:47 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Take two motorcycles, add excessive speed and a narrow residential road lined with parked cars, and you all too often wind up with a tragedy like the one that occurred Tuesday evening in Chesapeake....

• The Dangers of Yaz and Yasmin Prescription Drugs

  Rick Shapiro | October 01, 2009 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Yaz and Yasmin, the two most popular birth control pills in the United States, are not perfect prescription drugs. In fact, the side effects they inflict on young women can be horrendous, even life...

• New Rail Crash: Disney Monorail Accident Kills Employee

  Rick Shapiro | July 06, 2009 12:12 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Disney World in Orlando, Florida (FL) is grappling with a monorail crash which killed 21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg, the operator of one of the monorails. The accident involved two monorails...

• New Virginia law makes auto accident lawsuits quicker.

  Rick Shapiro | May 30, 2007 1:24 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The Virginia legislature passed various new laws affecting civil litigation which go into effect on July 1, 2007. One of the most important changes was getting rid of an old procedure called removal which allowed insurance companies in automobile accidents to take a case out of the faster Virginia (VA) General District Courts and move it to the slower and more expensive Virginia Circuit Courts...

• Virginia investigators studying boat collisions

  Jim Lewis | October 10, 2009 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Virginia authorities are crashing boats – on purpose. The collisions are part of an effort to learn more about how recreational boat collisions happen and how to prevent them, the AP...

• Couple Tragically Killed in Car Accident

  John Cooper | August 23, 2009 10:26 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Bob and Reggie Wade, two active citizens in their 80s, were killed in a car accident. They were driving home to Valley Forge when their Cadillac was struck by a Dodge Durango, according to...