Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

• 13 month-old girl bitten by Pit Bull in Virginia Beach, Virginia

  Emily Mapp Brannon | May 04, 2009 2:52 AM | 8 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Friday evening, May 1, 2009 a 13 month-old girl was bitten on the head by a pit bull mix dog. News channel 13 reported that Virginia Beach, VA EMS transported the little girl to the local hospital...

• Shark Attacks: Keep an Eye Out for Dorsal Fins

  Emily Mapp Brannon | July 27, 2011 9:56 AM | 3 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Last week, a 6 year old girl was attacked by a shark at Ocracoke beach. This type of attack is a rare and unexpected tragedy for our normally relaxing shorelines, filled with families and...

• Slip, Trip or Fall cases: When Is A Hole Or a Condition Causing Personal Injury Open and Obvious?

  Rick Shapiro | December 31, 2008 5:52 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  I wrote a full article about a recent federal court decision out of Richmond, Virginia (within the Federal court circuit over West Virginia (WV), Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC) and South...

• A Miracle Today, a Potential Mess Tomorrow: Liability and the Navy Jet Crash in Virginia Beach

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | April 07, 2012 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Even more amazing and welcome than the April 7, 2012, announcement that Virginia Beach, VA, fire and rescue crews found no fatalities in the wreckage of the Mayfair Mews apartment buildings all...

• Prepare Now to Not Suffer Hurricane Injuries Later

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | July 25, 2010 1:37 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  With temperatures reaching well above 100 F for the third day in a row, I'm tempted to pray for rain -- lots of rain -- just to cool things off. As a longtime resident of Virginia (VA), though, I...

• Improper Stacking Cases - Falling Items at a Big Box Retailer

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | December 03, 2009 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The big box mart era is in full-swing in the United States and many of us find ourselves in one of these stores at least once a week. These are not standard grocery stores or local drug stores, but...

• Dozens hurt in Virginia Beach (VA) collapse to divide just $375,000

  Rick Shapiro | October 05, 2009 3:49 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Three dozen people hurt – some maimed and disabled for life – after a deck collapsed in the Sandbridge section of Virginia Beach in 2005 are being forced to divide just $375,000, The...

• Watch Your Step in VA Beach’s Town Center

  Randy Appleton | May 22, 2009 8:24 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A fountain sits majestically in the middle of Town Center’s $1.7 million plaza. It’s beautiful, and it’s big. Unfortunately, it’s also dormant most of the time....

• Fountain in Town Center Should Remain Off During High Winds

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | May 21, 2009 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The Town Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) features a large, beautifully designed water fountain. However, it’s rarely at full capacity due to the frequent high winds in Virginia Beach,...

• Electrical Shock Injury In Hotel Shower Ends Commercial Pilot’s Career--Settlement Just Before Trial

  Rick Shapiro | July 08, 2008 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Should a hotel guest (here a commercial airline pilot) ever receive a severe electrical shock during a hotel shower? We think not, and here the effects of the shock adversely affected our client's eyesight and caused muscle weakness and other symptoms that ended our client's piloting career with a major airline, causing loss of his career, and massive earning losses. Our challenge was to prove how and why the shock occurred.