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• Toxic Water Is Major Problem In US Cities

  Greg Webb | September 17, 2009 9:32 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Residents in an area near Charleston, West Virginia have started to avoid contact with tap water after scabs began developing on their arms, legs and chests where the bathwater, which is polluted...

• Dish Network Virginia Child Molestation Case--Every Parent's Nightmare

  Ben Glass | July 20, 2009 6:57 AM | 1 CommentNorthern Virginia, VA

  Every parent's nightmare. You call the cable or satellite installer and you let them into your house. You don't know it but the installer is a convicted child molester. Easy to check that out these...

• General Motors’ Agrees To Compensate For Faulty Saturn Transmissions

  Greg Webb | September 18, 2008 9:00 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  General Motors Corp. has agreed to pay about $90 million or more to tens of thousands of motorists in all fifty states for expenses they acquired due to faulty transmissions in more than...

• Traps and Pitfalls in Representing Truck Accident Victims

  Michael Phelan | November 21, 2009 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Truck accident insurance investigation teams and defense lawyers are some of the most competent adversaries a plaintiff lawyer will encounter. The truck company investigators are often at the scene...

• Railroads Try New End Run Around FELA Jury Verdicts: Motions For Verdict Offset Due To Railroad Retirement Collateral Source Payments

  John Cooper | January 07, 2009 8:42 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  The new strategy for railroads in railroad worker personal injury cases (FELA cases), is to try to reduce the sums juries are requiring them to pay by filing legal motions that ask judges to give...

• Veterans Sue Federal Government Over Lack of PTSD Disability Benefits

  Greg Webb | December 29, 2008 8:00 AM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A class action lawsuit has been filed against the federal government by five veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The soldiers allege that they were illegally denied disability benefits...

• How CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield Wastes Your Money

  Ben Glass | August 23, 2007 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  My family is insured under an individual health insurance policy with CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield here in Virginia. Every so often I get a letter from a law firm called Seidel Subrogation Associates, LLC, which demands information from me, on behalf of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield.Someone is paying to send out the letters. Probably me since I am a policy holder.CareFirst has obviously...

• Nor'easter heightens drowning risks to Hampton Roads (VA) residents

  Rick Shapiro | November 11, 2009 11:21 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  The Nor’easter that blew into Hampton Roads Wednesday afternoon may be one for the record books – but hopefully residents will exercise common sense and stay safe. The greatest hazard...

• Electronic Cigarettes Not an “Alternative” to Cigarettes, Use Ingredient Found in Antifreeze

  Jim Lewis | July 23, 2009 9:12 PM | 2 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The FDA performed an analysis of increasingly popular electronic cigarettes (also known as e-cigarettes). The analysis found carcinogens and toxic chemicals including diethylene glycol, which is...

• The High Rise Bridge in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) is a Scary Place for a Car Accident

  John Cooper | January 14, 2009 11:06 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Anyone who drives around Hampton Roads, Virginia has probably crossed the high rise bridge on Interstate 64 (I-64) near the intersection of the highway with Route 17, Deep Creek/Portsmouth exit....