InjuryBoard Virginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk Archives

• New Virginia law makes auto accident lawsuits quicker.

  Rick Shapiro | May 30, 2007 1:24 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Intoxicated Driver Kills Passenger in Norfolk, Virginia (VA)

  Rick Shapiro | May 29, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  According to published reports in the Virginian Pilot newspaper on May 18, 2007 a Marine is being charged with drunken driving associated with a car crash that killed a Navy woman. The wreck happened in Norfolk, Virginia (VA) around 2:00 A.M. The 26 year old driver was charged with driving under the influence. This at fault driver ran off a ramp of the highway and hit a tree killing one of his...

• More Suits Settled In Plane Crash Case

  Rick Shapiro | May 25, 2007 1:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The estates of two more wrongful death victims of a recent aviation crash have settled their cases with the airline. These wrongful death claims involved the plane crash of a Comair Jet carrying 50 people, as it attempted to take off from an airport in Lexington, Kentucky. I take a special interest in these accident cases as I am an injury attorney in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VB) and a pilot...

• Pre-existing injury in accident cases

  Rick Shapiro | May 24, 2007 11:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  One issue that comes up a lot in automobile accident cases and FELA railroad cases is the questions of pre-existing conditions, like degenerative disc disease. Pre- existing condition means that the claimant had something wrong with the part of their body before it was injured in the car or train accident The law is generally that the person hurt in an accident can not recover for the...

• Virginia's Eastern Shore Highway Death Rates Remain High

  Rick Shapiro | May 22, 2007 5:06 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  By Randy Appleton, HSCLA AttorneyIndividuals who have suffered severe personal injuries and wrongful death on Virginia's Eastern Shore (as well as their family members) often travel on Route 13 over the 17 mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel spanning the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, south to the "mainland" area of Virginia. The Bridge Tunnel geographically links the finger of land called the...

• Evenflo Recall of Bad Car Seats as an Example of Products Liability Case

  Rick Shapiro | May 19, 2007 12:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A recall was recently done of the Evenflo Embrace infant car seat/carriers made before April 8, 2006. This involves over 450,000 bad infant car seats with faulty handles. If you or your family has experienced and injury as a result of this defective product in Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), or elsewhere we hope you will contact us to serve as your personal injury lawyer to obtain a...

• Consumers Injured and Hospitalized by Bad Beef.

  Rick Shapiro | May 18, 2007 10:36 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  In a news piece on May 11, 2007, an announcement came out that beef shipped to Virginia (VA) among other states was recalled because of E. coli. Over 100, 000 pounds of beef was accidentally shipped to eight states according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture which appears to have been tainted. Seven people were known to have been sickened by this ground beef and three had to be hospitalized...

• Brain Injury Verdict Among Virginia's Largest

  Rick Shapiro | May 15, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  A woman was recently awarded 12 million dollars for a brain injury from a 2003 fall. The Hampton, Virginia (VA) jury made this large award in a slip and fall accident case. The large multi-million dollar jury award is probably among the highest in the slip and fall/premises liability category in Virginia (VA) history, and the plaintiff was represented by Stephen Smith, of Hampton, Virginia...

• Older People Face Jury Prejudice

  Rick Shapiro | May 11, 2007 2:39 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Trial lawyers in the cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Chesapeake, as well as other areas of Virginia (VA) are all trained to anticipate the prejudices that jurors have and express toward parties to litigation. Especially in cases involving medical negligence and malpractice against doctors, nurses and physician associates, a plaintiff's attorney can count on...