Toxic Substances

• Railroaders Beware: Diesel Exhaust Associated With Heart Attacks and Heart Disease

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | May 02, 2012 3:57 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Exposure to diesel exhaust fumes on the job has been linked to higher rates of several kinds of cancer and breathing disorders, especially diesel asthma or industrial asthma. As a personal injury...

• Diesel Exhaust Raises Lung Cancer Risk, Suppressed Study Shows

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | March 07, 2012 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Even though federal health officials have long recognized exposure to diesel fumes as a cancer risk, solid evidence for the link between breathing in chemicals contained in the vapor coming...

• Short-Term Asbestos Exposure Caused Man's Mesothelioma, Jury Finds

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | December 19, 2011 10:11 AM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  An 84-year-old Vashon, Washington (WA), man has received a $1.45 million jury award from the ships' services company whose negligence and disregard for workplace safety rules caused him to...

• First Responders to 9/11 Tragedy Won't Get Cancer Compensation

  Kevin Duffan | August 01, 2011 9:40 AM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The 9/11 tragedy affected all of us in one way or another, and the impact reaches beyond just those people living and working in NYC or the Pentagon. Volunteers from all over traveled to ground...

• Knoxville Jury Holds CSX Liable for Lung Cancer Death, $8.6 Million Verdict

  Rick Shapiro | December 02, 2010 1:33 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Our client was a railroad worker switchman who lost his life to lung cancer following a 5 year battle, after being exposed to asbestos, diesel fumes, and radiation during his 40 year career as a...

• Oil Slick Leads to Dirty Trick by BP

  Jim Lewis | May 04, 2010 12:41 PM | 2 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  As the oil leak off the Gulf of Mexico grows worse, public concern over the effects this disaster could have on the fishing and crabbing industry in Alabama and other parts of the country grew as...

• Virginia Homeowners Need Help Handling Toxic Chinese Drywall

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | October 06, 2009 4:34 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Toxic Chinese drywall is affecting thousands of homeowners across the nation but especially in the south including Mississippi, Florida, New Orleans, and Virginia (VA). Some estimates indicate over...

• Insurance Companies Looking for Ways to Deny Claims Associated with Toxic Chinese Drywall

  Emily Mapp Brannon | August 16, 2009 9:46 PM | 2 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The devastating effects of toxic Chinese drywall in Virginia (VA) have left numerous families with a home featuring unlivable conditions or a massive bill to remove and replace the lethal drywall...

• Dominion Virginia Power Aims to Remove Responsibility in Fly Ash Lawsuit

  Jim Lewis | July 26, 2009 6:28 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Dominion Virginia Power is looking to remove itself as liable in the $1 billion dollar lawsuit brought forth by residents of Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) living near the Battlefield Golf Club,...

• Swine Flu Remains a Deadly Threat in Virginia

  Rick Shapiro | July 24, 2009 9:14 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The Virginia Department of Health is reporting a woman’s recent death may be linked to the H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as Swine Flu. If it turns out Swine Flu was a contributing...