Miscellaneous

• "Funny" insurance ads are offensive to this injury lawyer

  Jim Lewis | June 11, 2007 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  Insurance company advertising seems to involve lots of jokes these days. Obviously, some advertising executive has convinced the insurance companies that they can increase their profits [44 billion in 2006] and market share by having comic ads about insurance. If you watch TV you've seen these insurance company ads, like the one for Zurich Insurance Company who shows gags about people yelling...

• More Suits Settled In Plane Crash Case

  Rick Shapiro | May 25, 2007 1:17 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  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 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  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...

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

  Rick Shapiro | May 19, 2007 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  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 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  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...

• Older People Face Jury Prejudice

  Rick Shapiro | May 11, 2007 2:39 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  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...

• Virginia Tech tragedy raises security issues

  Rick Shapiro | April 17, 2007 8:03 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  By Editors Rick Shapiro & John CooperWith over 30 dead Virginia Tech students, the entire nation including Virginia residents mourn the loss of innocent lives. As of the day after the massacre in Blacksburg Virginia, it appears that the gunman was himself a Virginia Tech student with serious psychiatric issues. However, what is emerging is a clear consensus among police and security officials...

• The Rules On Calling Yourself A Personal Injury Specialist Are A Problem In Virginia (VA)

  Rick Shapiro | April 10, 2007 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  There are ethics rules that apply in Virginia (VA) that say you cannot hold yourself out as a personal injury specialist no matter how specialized you are in personal injury law. In Virginia (VA), there are no recognized specialties in any field of law, including representing injured people. The state could develop a system of certified specialties so that a lawyer who has been practicing in a...

• Medical Malpractice Reform Hurts Consumers While Ballooning The Profits of the Insurance Companies

  Rick Shapiro | November 17, 2006 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  In a recent article in the American Bar Association Journal published in October 2006, written by Terry Carter, the article explores how Texas has passed massive tort reform of its medical malpractice laws. The massive overkill championed by President Bush when he was governor, Texas style, places a maximum of $250,000 recovery on non-economic damages (pain-and-suffering). As Carter notes,...

• Potential Jury Tampering Under Review After Plaintiff's Big Texas Vioxx Verdict

  Rick Shapiro | September 21, 2006 6:59 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  A Texas jury delivered a $32 million verdict against the makers of Vioxx. Now attorneys firm Merck want to obtain bank and cell phone records because one of the juror's had just paid off a $10,000 loan from one of the plaintiffs that was a party to the case. According to an article in Lawyers Weekly USA, a school janitor jury member was earning $22,000 a year and has testified in a post-trial...