Miscellaneous

• Older People Face Jury Prejudice

  Rick Shapiro | May 11, 2007 2:39 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, 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...

• 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, Chesapeake & Suffolk, 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, Chesapeake & Suffolk, 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,...

• Who Really Has the Money? (Think Runaway CEO Salaries, Not Runaway Juries)

  Rick Shapiro | July 22, 2006 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  By James C. Lewis, HSCLA Attorney It seems that with every passing year, we hear more and more complaints from the big corporations in the United States about the fact that lawyers representing injured victims are costing them huge sums of money by suing them and taking them to court. These corporate spokesmen frequently blame the trial lawyers in this country (who represent injured victims)...

• U.S. Supreme Court Allows Suits Against Postal Carriers for Creating Tripping Hazards

  Rick Shapiro | April 21, 2006 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Long ago, the federal government and its agents could not be sued for torts (a civil wrong). However, the federal government passed an act called the Federal Tort Claims Act many years ago that allows suits for negligence against federal agents, including postmen, if they are negligent and the negligence leads to injuries.What if your postal carrier leaves your box in a strange position outside...

• 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,...

• Seeing "Both Sides" Of Product Safety-As Injury Lawyer and Inventor/Designer of Products

  Rick Shapiro | September 13, 2006 6:40 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  I don't know how many product liability injury lawyers also are inventors in the United States, but I suspect it's a tiny number, or maybe just me alone. Beginning in 1999, I filed my first patent application for a new type of folding wheel axle for typical wagons and carts which allows them to fold flat. Since that time I have filed for and been granted 12 United States patents, and have...

• Virginia Law Firm Disclaimer

  Staff Writer | October 25, 2005 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  WARNING: No attorney or law firm can or should guarantee results or outcomes to a potential client. Every case presents different facts and different legal challenges. This website may include real case accounts and prior case references, however, this information is presented to demonstrate legal strategies that were adopted in the past, and the results that were obtained cannot be a predictor...

• Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton, P.C.

  Staff Writer | February 28, 2005 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Shapiro, Cooper Lewis & Appleton law firm is dedicated to representing those injured due to the carelessness and fault of others, including railroad, truck and car accidents, faulty product injuries, and medical malpractice claims. The firm has represented thousands of accident victims throughout the Eastern United States and the firm's lawyers have over 100 years combined legal experience. ...