By Jim Hurley, Virginia Beach DUI Accident Injury Attorney
My colleague John Cooper has written a blog on the new VA Beach Accident Injury Lawyers blog about rules being brought in by the Navy to control the drinking of alcohol as well as the taking of drugs. Could stricter alcohol enforcement in the Navy make the roads of Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Chesapeake, VA safer places?
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia personal injury lawyer contact us through this website
Virginia Beach Asbestos Injury Lawyer Report – Supreme Court Cuts Award in Newport News Asbestos Death Case
By John Cooper, Virginia Beach Asbestos Injury Lawyer
An award of almost $6 million made in a wrongful death case over the death of a former Navy sailor due to asbestos exposure has been drastically reduced by the Virginia Supreme Court.
The court said the jury in the Newport News, VA asbestos wrongful death case, should not have been allowed to include pain and suffering damages in the award, the Daily Press reported.
See this video about the dangers of asbestos.
In 2010 the family of Robert Hardick was awarded $5.98 million after he died from mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer that’s linked to asbestos exposure, in 2009. Recently our experienced Virginia Beach, VA injury attorneys highlighted the dangers of asbestos.
In a March 2012 ruling the Supreme Court cut the award by $3.15 million — reducing it to $2.83 million.
“The state Supreme Court ruled that Hardick, a Navy sailor between the 1950s and 1970s, met the definition of a ‘seaman’ under federal maritime law. As such, the court ruled, certain kinds of damages — including those pertaining to pain and suffering and ‘loss of society’ — are legally barred,” the Daily Press reported.
The defendant in this case was John Crane Inc., a maker of products such as gaskets and valves on ships and submarines. In the past asbestos was used in many of its products.
The Hardick family’s attorneys from Patten, Wornom, Hatten and Diamonstein, had successfully argued Mr. Hardick was a “nonseafarer” rather than a seaman, according to the Daily Press.
What isn’t in dispute is the fact a death related to asbestos exposure can be a long and painful ordeal that involves much pain, suffering and trauma to the victim as well as to the family of the victim.
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia personal injury lawyer contact us through this website
By John Cooper, Norfolk Railroad/FELA Accident Injury Attorney
As a FELA attorney who helps railroad engineers and conductors when they get lung cancer from work, I pay attention to diesel exhaust as a safety hazard. Whether you work on the railroad or down a mine, there are a lot of visible threats to your health. There are many invisible ones too.
Heavy diesel fumes may be seen at times but the real danger is the tiny but unseen particles that get stuck in the lungs of workers. A new study by the National Cancer Institute links diesel fumes to increased lung cancer rates in mines.
See this news clip about the dangers of diesel.
As Virginia Beach personal injury attorneys, we are concerned about the implications of this report for all workers who are exposed to diesel as well as the general public.
The study that began in 1992 looked at 12,350 workers in mines in New Mexico, Wyoming, Ohio and Missouri.
“It was across the United States. We had one salt mine, we had three potash mines, we had three trona mines and one limestone mine,” Patricia Schlieff, a statistician for the project, told Essential Pubic Radio.
“The study findings provide further evidence that exposure to diesel exhaust increases risk of mortality from lung cancer and have important public health implications,” the paper said.
The study discovered 198 miners died of lung cancer in the eight mines studied. The miners were exposed to diesel exhaust on a regular basis.
There’s now a growing body of research evidence that railroad workers exposed to diesel are also suffering from lung cancer. Research has also highlighted a worrying disease called “diesel asthma.”
Diesel fumes are a complex chemical mixture containing hundreds of compounds, including nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, benzene, poly-systematic hydrocarbons and numerous other compounds.
For more than 50 years diesel has fuelled locomotives on the railroads, resulting in railroad workers suffering heavy exposure to its effects. Levels of lung cancer spiked after diesel trains replaced steam trains in the 1950s.
In recent years the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) that permits an injured worker to bring lawsuits against his employers, has been used in cases of railroad workers who have developed lung cancer or asthma linked to diesel fumes.
In April 2008, an Ohio state court jury ordered the rail operator Conrail to pay $2.6 million to former locomotive engineer Frank Battaglia, for causing his diesel exhaust asthma lung disease. Mr. Battaglia, had worked for more than two decades as an engineer, before he was diagnosed with diesel exhaust fume asthma.
Evidence of diesel asthma has significance beyond the mine and the railroad. The link between the increased use of diesel cars and a rise in asthma in the general population of the United Kingdom was highlighted in a campaign in the British newspaper The Independent.
In a 2002 report the Environmental Protection Agency pointed to a likely correlation between diesel fumes and lung cancer in the United States. The report concluded long-term exposure to diesel “is likely to pose a lung cancer hazard to humans as well as damage the lung in other ways depending on exposure.”
The report led the Bush administration to propose reductions in emissions from diesel engines, although critics from the environmental lobby said the policies did not go far enough.
Research suggests the young may be particularly vulnerable from asthma caused by particles in diesel. Researchers in California suggest pollutants in diesel cause as many as 3,500 premature deaths a year in the state.
As experienced Virginia railroad worker lung cancer lawyers, we believe there is an urgent need for further research in this field.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia personal injury lawyer contact us through this website
State Cap Means $4 Million Virginia Tech Wrongful Death Verdicts Will be reduced to $100,000
By John Cooper, Virginia Wrongful Death Attorney
A jury has awarded $4 million each in the wrongful death cases brought by the families of two students who were slain at Virginia Tech, citing a potentially fatal delay by university authorities in warning the campus a killer was on the loose.
The result of the failure of the university authorities may have resulted in the worst mass shooting in modern US history carried out by student Seung-Hui Cho, the jury concluded.
As Virginia Beach, VA wrongful death attorneys we believe the $4 million settlements were no less than the families deserved, although no sum of cash can compensate for a life. But we are disappointed that state law meant the Commonwealth’s attorneys immediately filed a motion to reduce the award immediately after the jury made it on March 14, 2011.
“State law requires the award to be capped at $100,000, but jurors weren’t told of the cap,” Associated Press reported.
State immunity means the Commonwealth is not liable for damages above $100,000, no matter how serious the negligence.
Tragedies don’t come much bigger than the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech near Blacksburg, VA. The jury agreed with the arguments put forward by lawyers for the families of Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde that lives could have been spared if Tech officials had moved more quickly to alert students at the campus after two victims were shot in a dorm.
The case turned on the fact authorities waited 2 1/2 hours before issuing a campus-wide warning of the shooting that failed to mention the fact the gunman was still at large.
Only when Cho started killing 31 students at a classroom building was a mass email alert issued.
During the hearing Tech officials said they believed the original shootings were “isolated cases of domestic violence,” AP reported.
Other families accepted a collective settlement of $11 million from the state, AP reported.
Robert Hall, an attorney for the parents, said their main interest was not in a financial award but in holding school officials accountable. As a fellow Virginia wrongful death attorney I congratulate Mr. Hall and his colleague Michael Kernbach, on this verdict.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. He has a license to practice law in North Carolina. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and north eastern North Carolina. We always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia and North Carolina (NC) personal injury lawyer contact us through this website.
Virginia Beach Accident Injury Lawyer Report – Police Officer Suffers Head Injury in VA Beach Hit and Run Incident
By John Cooper, Virginia Beach Head Injury Lawyer
A Virginia Beach police officer suffered head trauma after being hit by a driver who fled the scene and was later charged with DUI, investigators say.
Police charged a 28-year-old woman from Virginia Beach with felony hit and run and DUI first offense, WAVY.com reported. Police say she hit a patrol car early in the morning of March 14, 2012.
As experienced Virginia Beach head and brain injury attorneys our thoughts are with this police officer. We don’t yet know the extent of his injuries, although news reports described them as serious. A traumatic brain injury can have long lasting effects.
The WAVY report said the police officer was responding to reports of shots fired at Mermaids nightclub on Potters Road.
He was driving to the scene, going south on First Colonial Road. Police say the woman, who was driving a Pontiac G6 north on First Colonial Road, tried to make a left turn onto Virginia Beach Boulevard when she collided with the police cruiser.
According to police the woman fled the scene on foot, but was picked up by police officers close to the accident scene.
The injured police officer was cut out of his vehicle by fire and rescue personnel and is being treated for head trauma in Virginia Beach General Hospital.
Alcohol and drugs are linked to far too many crashes in Virginia Beach. Recently we reported on how a father and three children have struggled to come to terms with a crash that took place in January, 2012. They were hit by a pickup driver at a school bus stop who was later charged with a DUI linked to medically prescribed drugs.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. He has a license to practice law in North Carolina. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and north eastern North Carolina. We always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia and North Carolina (NC) personal injury lawyer contact us through this website.
Virginia Beach Brain Injury Lawyer Report – Was a Brain Injury Responsible for Soldier’s Afghan Massacre?
By Jim Hurley, Virginia Brain Injury Lawyer
Traumatic brain injury has been dubbed the “signature wound” of US conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. It may also have been to blame for one of the worst massacres committed by American troops in the Middle Eastern conflicts, according to doctors.
A 38-year old staff sergeant is in custody over the slaying of 17 civilians near Kandahar in Afghanistan on March 11, 2012.
See this CNN TV report about the massacre.
The serviceman is one of many soldiers to have suffered a traumatic brain injury on a tour of duty
“The suspect suffered a TBI in Iraq in 2010 after a vehicle he was riding in rolled over in Iraq,” reported Time magazine.
But Time reported he later passed a mental-health exam after the injury, and was declared well enough to deploy at Joint Base Lewis-McCord near Seattle.
Time quoted officials who said “such mental-health scrutiny is imperfect and crude, especially if the soldier involved is eager to deploy.”
As experienced Virginia Beach, VA traumatic brain injury lawyers we know these injuries can be complex and even a mild TBI can cause irritability and mood swings.
“What you see often with TBI is a disinhibition,” an Army psychiatrist who served outside Kandahar, the scene of the shootings, told Time “TBI could be responsible if it leaves him predisposed to bipolarity or manic episodes.”
The facts are still emerging in this harrowing case and we don’t yet know if traumatic brain injury was to blame.
We do know a brain injury can have a devastating effect on sufferers for the rest of their lives. More background on head and brain injuries is contained in a new article written by my colleague John Cooper.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. He has a license to practice law in North Carolina. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and north eastern North Carolina. We always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia and North Carolina (NC) personal injury lawyer contact us through this website.
By John Cooper, Virginia Beach DUI injury attorney
As experienced Virginia Beach DUI injury attorneys, we see far too many cases in which alcohol is a factor in crashes that injure or kill innocent drivers in cities such as Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Portsmouth, VA as well as in North Carolina.
But we don’t come across many cases in which the DUI/DWI driver is 13-years-old.
This appears to have been the case in Northampton County, North Carolina (NC) when a 13-year-old girl was charged with DWI. According to WTKR.com, Investigators reported the teenager was driving at night without headlights when she crashed head-on into another car.
“Investigators say the girl left the party from the Arrowhead Trailer park in Woodland, NC, drove onto highway 35 with no lights on and crashed into another car,” WTKR reported.
Three people were injured in the crash but they are expected to make a full recovery.
In this case the 13-year-old is not the only one in trouble. North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement has charged a 23-year-old man from Northampton county man with supplying the alcohol to the girl.
As a Virginia and North Carolina accident injury attorney, I find the facts of this incident disturbing. It’s bad enough that drunk drivers are on the road. If a 13-year-old girl was given alcohol and got behind the wheel, this is an even more dangerous scenario given that it’s unlikely she knew how to drive.
A person or premises that supplied alcohol to a driver who caused a crash, can be held liable in a personal injury or a wrongful death lawsuit.
Our experienced Virginia Beach car accident injury attorneys are relived nobody was seriously injured in this accident.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia personal injury lawyer contact us through this website
By John Cooper, Virginia Beach Personal Injury Attorney
Beauty products are meant to improve the appearance of users. But some products being sold in the US may injure those who use them, regulators are warning.
As experienced Virginia Beach injury lawyers we are concerned about the presence of mercury in some cosmetic products following a warning issued by the Food and Drugs Administration.
Mercury has been found in some soaps, skin-care products and cosmetics in stores that usually to cater to Latino, African-American, Asian and Middle Eastern communities, the New York Daily News reported.
See this video on mercury in cosmetics.
“The FDA has counted 35 potentially poisonous products, which include goods made by the brands Diana, Stillman’s, Lusco and Crema Aguamary, that are manufactured abroad and sold illegally in the U.S. They may claim to lighten skin, cure acne and reduce wrinkles,” the report states.
Mercury is a poisonous metal that can have a detrimental health effect on those it comes into contact with.
“It can damage the kidneys and the nervous system, and interfere with the development of the brain in unborn children and very young children,” Dr. Charles Lee, a senior medical adviser at the FDA, told the New York Daily News.
Mercury is so poisonous that just inhaling the products can harm consumers. The U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission says breathing mercury can cause nerve damage.
Other symptoms of mercury exposure include changes in vision, tremors and numbness in the hands and feet. Emotional damage including depression and memory problems is also cited.
If you have been harmed by a cosmetic product you should contact an experienced Virginia Beach defective products attorney.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. He has a license to practice law in North Carolina. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and north eastern North Carolina. We always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia and North Carolina (NC) personal injury lawyer contact us through this website
Virginia Beach Car Accident Injury Lawyer Report – Rearview Cameras are Proposed to Reduce Reversing Accidents
By John Cooper, Virginia Beach Auto Accident Lawyer
In 2010 in Manassas, Virginia, a woman driving a Honda Accord backed over a two-year-old girl as she reversed out of a parking space, leaving the girl with serious injuries.
These kinds of cases are known as back-over accidents and they are more common than many people imagine. As an experienced Virginia Beach, VA auto accident injury attorney, I am always concerned when I see large SUVs being backed out of drives in Virginia Beach because I’m aware of the blind spots that exist behind these vehicles.
A new mandate proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to Congress would require auto makers to equip all new passenger vehicles with rearview cameras by 2014.
Unfortunately, the automobile industry appears to be pushing back against the measure saying it needs more time for research and data analysis. In many cases family members are to blame for back-over accidents. A moment of inattention may haunt them for the rest of their lives if their children are badly hurt or killed.
Research shows about half of all back-over deaths involve children under the age of five and in two-thirds of these accidents a parent or close relative backs over the child.
There’s a name for this heartbreaking scenario: the “bye-bye syndrome.” Typically children will rush out to wave goodbye to a parent and the parent does not see them until it’s too late.
Federal agencies say more than 2,400 children each year are treated in hospital emergency rooms for back-over accidents. More than one child dies this way every week in America according to Janette Fennell, founder of Kids and Cars, which tracks automobile-related child safety issues.
As a Virginia Beach car accident injury attorney who sees these accidents at first hand, I’m concerned that drivers of larger vehicles such as SUVs and trucks are not noticing kids. I’m also concerned that the auto industry seems to be resisting this measure. SUVs and trucks are to blame for about 60 percent of these accidents.
Automakers are beginning to offer rearview cameras on many models of car, according to the New York Times. The feature has become more popular as companies identify cheaper ways to display camera images to a driver.
As a Virginia car accident injury attorney who has been involved in personal injury and wrongful death cases, I hope the process is speeded up.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia personal injury lawyer contact us through this website
Lawyer for Virginia Beach Police Officer Blames Drug for Client’s Attack on Firefighters on the Eastern Shore
By Jim Hurley, Virginia Beach Dangerous Drugs Attorney
Side effects of a prescribed drug have been blamed for an attack by a Virginia Beach, VA police officer on two firefighters on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Attorney Moody E. “Sonny” Stallings, Jr. said the 23-year-old Virginia Beach police officer, had been taking Biaxin to treat a respiratory infection for three days before the incident. The lawyer said it had been prescribed by a doctor, the Virginian-Pilot reported.
As an experienced Virginia Beach personal injury attorney, my first thought was that the firefighters who were injured by the officer, could have a civil as well as a criminal case against the police officer. The new claims raise a question as to whether the officer could have a claim against the drug company that manufactures Biaxin.
The Pilot reported the police officer began “experiencing hallucinations and hearing voices.”
The lawyer said he contacted a pharmacist and, later, a doctor about the potential side effects of the drug before he stopped taking it. But Stallings said the officer’s drive up the Eastern Shore was part of a “full blown psychotic reaction,” according to the newspaper.
See this video about the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
State police say the Virginia Beach officer ran his car off Lankford Highway in Accomack County, VA and hit a tree. He then started stabbing and shooting at firefighters, who showed up to rescue him. His lawyer said he believed they were “demons,” the Pilot reported.
The firefighters fought back, hitting the officer over the head. The firefighters were also injured.
User surveys have suggested Biaxin causes side effects in some people including disorders of the central nervous system, confusion, nightmares and vertigo.
As an experienced Virginia Beach dangerous drugs attorney I am aware of some consumer sites that suggest Biaxin has very worrying side effects. There is surely a case for more research into the effects of this drug.
DM
The Norfolk and Virginia Beach based personal injury law firm, Cooper Hurley, handles car, truck, and motorcycle injuries as well as brain injury, wrongful death, railroad workers’ injuries (FELA) mesothelioma and medical malpractice. John Cooper and Jim Hurley have over 40 years of combined experience in handling auto injury accident claims. Attorney John Cooper has been named to Virginia “Super Lawyers” since 2010 and has been a member since 2011 of the Multimillion dollar Advocates Roundtable. Cooper Hurley represents people hurt in accidents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News and throughout VA, and always put the best interests of our clients first. The firm is recognized by other lawyers as “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national attorney rating service, for our top level of legal skill and highest ethical standards. If you need help or advice about a serious injury, please call us (757) 455 -0077. For a free consultation with a specialized Hampton Roads, Virginia personal injury lawyer contact us through this website
