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• Norfolk's Harbor Walk condos, built with Chinese drywall, to get new developer

  Emily Mapp Brannon | November 04, 2009 5:30 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  The beleaguered Harbor Walk condo project in Norfolk’s Ocean View neighborhood is being taken over by new developer Franciscus Co., months after it was revealed that the old developer –...

• 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, Chesapeake & Suffolk, 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...

• Surgical Sponges/Towels Left Inside The Patient's Body: RFID Technology To Prevent Medical Malpractice, Improve Patient Safety

  Rick Shapiro | June 13, 2009 7:48 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Surgical Sponges/Towels Left Inside The Patient Body: RFID Technology To Prevent Medical Malpractice, Improve Patient Safety [Editor’s Note: For earlier related injury...

• Centros Legales de Habla Hispana

  Beatriz Vargas | February 09, 2009 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Douglas K.W. Landau, Melissa Landau y Beatriz Vargas de Abrams Landau Ltd. en el restaurante de Machu Picchu en Falls Church VA con los abogados Claudia Henriquez y Dan Choi de el Centro de Justicia...

• Long Term Railroad Worker Diesel Exhaust Fume Exposure Linked to Asthma Lung Disease and Cancers-Part 2 of Two Reports

  Rick Shapiro | March 26, 2008 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  By: Rick Shapiro, Attorney Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton Law Firm focus on Federal Regulations and Railroad. Historical Knowledge of Health Dangers. There is a growing body of evidence that long-term railroad worker exposure to diesel exhaust fumes can lead to a condition called diesel asthma; a form of COPD, and additional evidence shows an increased incidence of lung cancer rates among such workers.

• Josh Hancock lawsuit against bar would not fly in Virginia

  Ben Glass | May 29, 2007 5:50 PM | 6 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Apparently the father of Josh Hancock, the baseball player who died recently while driving drunk (and not wearing a seatbelt and talking on the cell phone) has filed suit against a number of entities, including the driver of the car that had stalled on the road, the pickup truck that had stopped to assist that car and the bar where Hancock spent several hours allegedly drinking. I don't know...

• New FDA Initiative Seeks To Decrease Drug Dosage Errors

  Greg Webb | November 22, 2009 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In an attempt to curb the number of serious deaths and illnesses caused by misuse of medication, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is attempting to identify the most serious threats and find...

• Fall-Related Death of Worker at Norfolk Sanitation Plant Under Investigation

  Rick Shapiro | October 23, 2009 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Randy Piche, a long-time Hampton Roads Sanitation District employee, died Tuesday morning after falling through an opening on a third-floor walkway at the Army Base Treatment Plant in Norfolk on...

• Nursing Home Abuse More Common than Statistics Indicate

  John Cooper | July 18, 2009 10:35 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Some people think nursing home abuse is a “once-in-a-blue-moon” event. Unfortunately, it’s much more common occurrence than one would expect. The official data indicates...

• Medicaid, Medicare - Who gets paid ? Why do they care ?

  Doug Landau | July 13, 2009 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Growing up, you probably didn’t realize you had an Uncle Sam. He never sent you birthday cards, wasn’t in any of the family photos, and no one ever shared amusing anecdotes about him at...