Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Does RailView or LocoCAM Accurately Reflect the Visibility of a Railroad Engineer?

  John Cooper | October 06, 2009 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  As an injury lawyer who regularly handles railroad accident cases, there’s been a lot of talk about “RailView” and LocoCAM” being used by many major railroad companies. Some...

• Field Hockey Team Bus Crash in Suffolk One of Too Many Such Accidents

  Emily Mapp Brannon | September 29, 2009 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  I was alarmed to read that 11 members of the King's Fork High School field hockey team got injured when their school bus ran off the road in Isle of Wight, Virginia (VA), on Monday night. I was...

• Poquoson Pilot Honored for Five Decades of Accident-Free Flying

  Jim Lewis | September 23, 2009 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  When you look up “responsible pilot” in the dictionary, Luther Knaub’s picture should be placed immediately next to the definition as a prime example. Luther, a resident of...

• Defects in Railroad Cars Give Rise to Automatic Liability Under the Safety Appliance Act

  John Cooper | September 17, 2009 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The Railroad Safety Appliance Act (49 U.S.C section 20301-20303) which was enacted in 1893, made air brakes and automatic couplers mandatory for all railroad trains in the United States. The Act...

• Plane Accident Kills Pilot in Virginia Beach

  Jim Lewis | September 13, 2009 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Five airplanes were practicing for an aerial demonstration. Everything was going smoothly until the very end. One of the five planes failed to properly pull up while in descent and crashed...

• D.C. Metro Worker Killed While Repairing Metro Track

  Rick Shapiro | August 12, 2009 10:53 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The tragedy surrounding the Washington, D.C. Metro line was compounded when 63-year-old Metro employee Michael Nash was killed after being struck in the head by gravel propelled by a Metro...

• Jury award Norfolk Southern Employee $1.5 million Dollars Due to Occupational Injury

  John Cooper | August 09, 2009 5:50 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A jury in Tennessee (TN) awarded Joe Allen, a conductor for Norfolk Southern $1.5 million dollars after Allen filed a lawsuit stating he injured his Coccyx and re-aggravated a low-back injury...

• Suffolk Crash Is Latest Small Plane Accident

  Randy Appleton | August 04, 2009 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  When a small plane crashed on Deer Forest Road in southern Suffolk on Monday afternoon, its pilot and two passengers became the victims of the 14th general aviation accident in Virginia in the past...

• Jury Awards $1.8 Million for Docking Injury

  Jim Lewis | August 02, 2009 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A man named Daniel L. Willis of Escanaba, Minnesota was aboard the Joseph L. Block when it docked to offload limestone in 2004. As the ship pulled up to the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway,...

• Airplane crash claims for U.S. citizens on domestic flights.

  John Cooper | July 24, 2009 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  The modern world is a complex place. Almost everything we wear, eat, and use has been made somewhere else from components that came from yet more places. As the world grows more complex and more...