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10 Year Old Girl Died from a Hit-and-Run Accident

Posted on December 22, 2008
p /p pA 14-hour manhunt ended on August 22 when a man from Fairfax County surrendered to Maryland State Police and was charged in a hit-and-run accident in which a 10-year-old Montgomery County girl died from the personal injuries she sustained./p p /p pShortly before midnight on August 21, 32-year-old Michael Eaton was driving his Range Rover at a high rate of speed on a suspended license when he collided with a Jeep Cherokee carrying a family of four on Interstate 270...

Botched Surgical Procedure for a Couple from Hurricane, West Virginia

Posted on December 21, 2008
A couple from Hurricane, West Virginia has filed a medical malpractice suit against a doctor who allegedly botched a surgical procedure to remove a thymus gland on the wife. The suit was filed by Danielle and Jason Fields against Dr. Rebecca Wolfer and University Physicians and Surgeons Inc...

The Truth About Lawyer Advertising

Posted on December 20, 2008
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See, Insurance Companies Will Stop At Nothing--Absolutely Nothing to Delay and Hinder Justice

Posted on December 20, 2008
pLet's say you are an insurance company that insures building owners. A major fire breaks out and three people die. They don't die from burns, though...they die from inhaling the toxic smoke. /p pAs the insurance company do you pay? Not if you are a href="http://www...

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Bicycle Rider's Death Causes Family to File a Civil Suit Against Driver of Car

Posted on December 20, 2008
pAfter the legal remedy handed by a Virginia court left them dissatisfied, the family of a boy who died from the personal injuries he sustained while biking filed a civil suit against the woman who struck him, according to the familyrsquo;s attorney.br / br / On December 5, the familyrsquo;s attorney filed a complaint in Prince William County District Court naming 62-year-old Manassas resident Marilyn Jill Freeman as a defendant...

Negligent Treatment at an Air Force Base Causes Woman to File Suit

Posted on December 18, 2008
pA woman who filed a medical malpractice suit against the U.S. Government after necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh eating infection, virtually destroyed her arm due to the negligent treatment of military doctors at an Air Force base.br / br / Jean Phillips, the former wife of an Air Force captain, filed the suit against the U...

Praise for Robbery Without a Gun-Why Your Employer's Long-Term Disability Policy May be a Sham

Posted on December 18, 2008
pa href="http://www.brentadams.com/practice_areas/social-security-disability1.cfm"North Carolina social security disability attorney Brent Adams/a recently said this about a href="http://www.robberywithoutagun.com"Robbery Without a Gun/a, the book which exposes the games of the long-term disability insurance companies...

$54 Million Lawsuit over dry cleaned pants won't get new trial

Posted on December 18, 2008
pRemember the knucklehead who sued the dry cleaners for $54 million and wasted everyone's time? Couldn't find a lawyer so he represented himself?/p pRemember that guy./p pThe a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,469605,00.html"D.C. Court of Appeal turned down his bid for a new trial...

Wall Street Journal Warning on Uninsured Drivers

Posted on December 17, 2008
pGreat article in the a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122947388659212351.html"Wall Street Journa/al today that points out that as the economy worsens, more and more drivers are just letting their car insurance lapse or they are buying minimal coverage...

Family Awarded $9 Million in a Medical Malpractice Case a Decade Later

Posted on December 16, 2008
A family has been awarded at least $9 million in a medical malpractice case, nearly a decade after the death of their 12-year-old son. On December 14, 1999, Andrew Muno underwent a surgical procedure at Condell Medical Center to repair a cut tendon on his left arm, but died during the procedure...

Fairfax, VA fraud: "you owe the police $7,500 for false alarms from your burglar alarm.

Posted on December 14, 2008
A woman at reported getting a call with this message by a "bill collector." The "bill collector" told her that they were collecting an overdue debt owed the "Fairfax police" because of false alarms from your burglar alarm...

Which insurance pays in a Virginia car accident

Posted on December 12, 2008
Talked to a couple of folks this week and discovered that there is still a great misperception about which insurance companies to send the bills to after an accident. Here's my thoughts. the defendant's insurance company--the guy who hit you--may take care of your property damage promptly, but if they don't, contact your own insurance company the defendant's insurance company is not going to pay your medical bills piecemeal...

Virginia's "Trial Within a Year is 'Rocket Docket' Compared to New Hampshire

Posted on December 11, 2008
Sometimes folks complain about how long it takes to get to trial in Virginia. After all, they may have gone through a long rehabilitation period after their car accident and then spent some time negotiating with the insurance company. Still, most cases get to trial in a year The insurance companies are all jumping for joy in New Hampshire...

Suing Drunk Drivers and Using Video to Show Impact on the Family

Posted on November 30, 2008
While in many civil cases the use of video to show the impact of the defendant's choice to drink and drive is allowed, sometimes the attempt to use the video is met with an objection of "you honor, that's prejudicial" to the (drunk driver) defendant...

Emergency Room Deaths Caused by Medical Malpractice

Posted on November 29, 2008
According to a 2007 statistic released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 115 million Americans receive treatment in emergency rooms each year. According to a report from the Journal of the American Medical Association, more than 225,000 people die each year as a result of medical malpractice...

Donated Organs Kill Recipients

Posted on November 28, 2008
Two families have filed a medical malpractice suit against an organ donor group in Indiana. The families allege that their loved ones died after they received organ transplants from a cancer patient. In 2007, 45-year-old South Bend, Indiana resident Anthony Taylor died nine months after he received kidney and liver transplants...

More Than Half of the Injuries Caused During Medical Treatment are from Preventable Errors

Posted on November 03, 2008
Medical malpractice takes place when a patient suffers injuries due to negligent care or preventable errors during the course of receiving medical treatment. A doctor, nurse, or someone else in the medical or healthcare profession can cause medical malpractice...

More car accidents on Election Day than any other day in the US

Posted on November 03, 2008
Researchers say that who to vote for shouldn’t be your only concern on Election Day on November 4. According to a new study, there is an 18 percent higher likelihood of vehicular accidents and fatalities on presidential election days in the United States than any other day...

Can Virginia's Birth Injury Fund Survive?

Posted on November 02, 2008
Investment holdings used for the purpose of ensuring that babies born in Virginia that are catastrophically injured due to medical malpractice during childbirth have lifetime medical payments have lost nearly $35 million since the beginning of 2008...

Personal Injury/Wrongful Death Award Against town of Blacksburg

Posted on November 01, 2008
A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ordered the reduction of a $350,000 personal injury/wrongful death jury award against the town of Blacksburg that stemmed from a fatal car crash. The 8-year-old liability suit may have been reignited by the ruling...

Consumer Warning: Virginia State Bar says "No" to mandatory malpractice insurance

Posted on October 28, 2008
The organization that regulates lawyers in Virginia has voted down a consumer protection proposal that would have required all Virginia lawyers who deal with the public to carry malpractice insurance. Yes -- Surprise, surprise, there are some lawyers who handle cases worth hundreds of thousands of dollars who do not carry malpractice insurance...

Fairfax, Virginia Drunk Driver Gets Three Years in Prison

Posted on October 25, 2008
Fairfax Circuit Court judge Jane Marum Roush sentenced a 22 year old Fairfax County resident to 3 years in jail for an accident that killed one passenger and sentenced another to lifelong severe brain injury. Christopher Plaisier had 7 years of a total 10 year sentence suspended...

When Should I See a Doctor After an Accident(2)

Posted on October 16, 2008
A frequent question that arises after a car accident is: when should I see the doctor? The answer is: you should see a doctor as soon as you need one! Flippant? Maybe. Here's the point: you cannot make a decision about health care based on the fact that you may have an accident claim...

When Should I See a Doctor After an Accident

Posted on October 16, 2008
A frequent question that arises after a car accident is: when should I see the doctor? The answer is: you should see a doctor as soon as you need one! Flippant? Maybe. Here's the point: you cannot make a decision about health care based on the fact that you may have an accident claim...

Widow received Jury Award

Posted on September 22, 2008
A widow from Barboursville, West Virginia has received a jury award of $1.54 million in a medical malpractice suit over a 2002 surgery which resulted in her husband, Thomas Thornburg, suffering severe brain damage. On August 13, the jury in the trial, which lasted more than a week, found against Huntington Anesthesia Group Inc...

Man Who Lost Leg Awarded $1.5 Million

Posted on September 20, 2008
A man from West Tennessee was awarded $1.5 million by a jury in Madison County, Tennessee against a Jackson, Tennessee doctor and the medical corporation he was employed with after the man lost a leg due to an infection during a surgical procedure, according to court records...

Involuntary Manslaughter Charged for a North Carolina Accident

Posted on September 19, 2008
A man from North Carolina was recently indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter for a car accident on Interstate 95 in Dale City in which the victim died of the personal injuries he sustained. A trial date has been set in November for 39-year-old Spring Hope, North Carolina resident Philander Yardley Jordan...

Suit Filed in West Virginia for Loss of Testicle

Posted on September 18, 2008
A man from Kanawha County, West Virginia has filed a medical malpractice suit alleging that he lost his right testicle because of a physician who misread a CT scan. The suit was filed against radiologist Dr. J. Anton in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County by Jonathan Crawford on July 25...

West Virginia Man Files Medical Malpractice Suit Against Family Physician

Posted on September 17, 2008
A man from Jackson County, West Virginia has filed a medical malpractice suit against a family physician alleging that he became disabled as a result of her misdiagnosis. On July 23, Gary Jones filed suit against Dr. Sandra Brannin, a physician in Charleston, West Virginia, in the Kanawha County, West Virginia Circuit Court...

Woman Receives Radiation and Chemotherapy for Cancer She Did Not Have

Posted on September 16, 2008
A woman from Poca, West Virginia has filed a medical malpractice suit against a pathologist after allegedly receiving radiation and chemotherapy for cancer she did not have. On August 26, Charlotte Mollohan filed suit against Charleston Area Medical Center and Ho-Huang Chang, the medical director of CAMC Laboratories and director of anatomic pathology, in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia...

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