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• Midwives in Virginia: A Bad Idea

  Dan Frith | February 03, 2009 10:57 AM | 25 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Virginia is seeing an explosion in the number of midwives....and this is a bad trend! I see many complicated deliveries where a fetus becomes entangled in the umbilical cord or caught in the birth...

• FDA Study Identifies Toxins in Electronic Cigarettes

  Greg Webb | August 02, 2009 5:42 PM | 19 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to a preliminary analysis by the FDA, electronic cigarettes contain traces of carcinogens and toxins. These findings contradict electronic cigarette manufacturers’ statements that...

• “Hot Coffee” spills the beans on frivolous lawsuit charges

  Doug Landau | August 07, 2009 11:53 AM | 17 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Who has forgotten the 2.9 million dollar case where a woman spilled hot coffee on herself, got 3rd degree burns on her legs, and sued McDonald’s for serving her coffee at 190 degrees? The...

• Midwives in Virginia: Part Two

  Dan Frith | February 04, 2009 11:45 AM | 17 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Yesterday I wrote a blog on midwives in Virginia...and boy did I raise some eyebrows! I do appreciate my readers' comments and, although I cannot respond to everyone, I do want to follow up on my...

• Federal Court Determines Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Are Not "Outside Salesmen"

  Zev Antell | April 02, 2009 6:33 PM | 15 CommentsRichmond, VA

  On March 30th, a Connecticut Federal court found that the FLSA’s “Outside Salesman” exemption did not apply to Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives. In issuing its ruling the...

• Federal Concerns About Electronic Cigarettes Are Growing

  Greg Webb | August 13, 2009 12:17 PM | 14 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Because so little is known regarding what is in electronic cigarettes, regulators are growing more and more concerned due to the increase in popularity of the product over the past several years....

• Critic Raises Questions over Crash and Death Rates of Cirrus Aircraft In “Dead Pilots Don’t Lie”--Surprising Fatality Safety Analysis of Cirrus “Parachute” Planes vs. Cessna Small Planes

  Rick Shapiro | May 06, 2009 8:00 AM | 14 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  I just returned from the Buffalo, NY funeral of my good friend, Michael Doran, a successful personal injury lawyer from Buffalo, New York, who last week died in a Cirrus SR20 plane he was...

• Remain Aware of Swine Flu Symptoms and Take Necessary Precautions

  Jim Lewis | May 16, 2009 12:35 PM | 9 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  The hysteria surrounding the H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as Swine Flu, has somewhat dissipated, but that does not mean the threat is gone. CNN reported on five new cases of the H1N1 virus in...

• Owners Accountable for Dangerous Dogs

  Staff Writer | March 14, 2006 11:23 AM | 9 CommentsRichmond, VA

  This past weekend, a casual stroll through many of the parks in the Richmond, Virginia area would you have made you think it was "pitbull weekend". Strangely enough, there were dozens of owners walking their dogs with make shift leashes. In many instances, it appeared that the dogs were actually walking their owners. On Sunday, one pitbull got loose in Monroe Park and attacked at least five...

• Michael Jackson's Doctors- Potential Liability For Prescribing Controlled Substances/Drugs-Analysis of California State Board of Medicine Regulations

  Rick Shapiro | July 02, 2009 10:05 PM | 8 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA

  Michael Jackson's name is all over the headlines as the public is not only mourning the great, late singer/performer, but is virtually obsessed with the cause of his sudden death. One of the things...