If you’ve been injured in an accident, choosing the right Northern Virginia personal injury lawyer is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Your attorney will play a central role in your medical recovery, financial compensation, and overall peace of mind. Unfortunately, with so many firms in Northern Virginia, it’s...
Read MoreBad Faith Insurance & How to Prove It After a Personal Injury
When you suffer a personal injury, the last thing you need is an insurance company giving you the runaround. Unfortunately, many policyholders and claimants find themselves up against unexpected delays, unexplained denials, or settlement offers that are far too low to cover their losses. In some cases, insurance companies fail to hold...
Read MoreWrongful Deaths from Plane Crashes: What You Need to Know
Within the last week, two commercial planes crashed tragically killing innocent passengers, including 67 individuals involved in an American Airlines flight that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter. Air travel has a fatality risk of just 1 death per 7.9 million boardings, but accidents still happen. Victims and their families have a...
Read MoreWhat Kind of Cases Do Personal Injury Lawyers Handle?
Most people have heard that an attorney can help you obtain compensation after an injury-producing accident and wondered what kinds of cases personal injury lawyers handle. Personal injury is a branch of law that allows qualifying individuals to seek compensation for physical, psychological, or emotional injuries, and most of these cases are...
Read MoreWhy Do Maryland Lawmakers Want to Create a Birth Injury Fund?
Our Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland Injury Attorneys Fight on Behalf of Children with Birth Injuries New legislation could drastically alter how birth injury cases operate in Maryland. In response to judgments for medical malpractice cases, some lawmakers in the state...
Read MoreAre Medications Overpriced on Workers Compensation?
Our Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Injury Attorneys Explain the Costs In states such as Maryland, medications dispensed by doctors to patients on workers compensation can come with price markups of around 600 to 800 percent. This affects those working for private employees and government entities, and some...
Read MoreMaryland SHA Employee Struck and Killed by Car While On the Job
On November 14, a Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) employee was hit by a car and killed while working on the outer loop of I-695. According to the Baltimore News Journal, the accident happened around 11 a.m. between the Belair Road and Harford Road exits. In addition to the SHA worker who was killed, another...
Read MoreFlight Attendant Injured after Pilot Slams on Breaks
According to WJLA, on November 30, a United Airlines flight attendant sustained injuries when a pilot hit the brakes suddenly to avoid a collision at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. Officials reported that United Airlines Flight 379 to Orlando began to taxi to the runway around 8:30 a.m. when the pilot made an unexpected stop...
Read More20-Year-Old Dies in Violent Fairfax County Rollover Crash
On November 20, a 20-year-old man was killed in a violent car accident near Route 28 in Fairfax County, Virginia, according to ABC 7 in Arlington. The accident happened around 2 p.m. at the intersection of Old Centreville Road and Route 28. The 20-year-old was driving a pickup truck...
Read MorePolice Say Virginia’s Texting and Driving Law is a Challenge to Enforce
According to WJLA, 49 percent of drivers in Virginia admitted to texting and driving, despite it being the cause of over 100,000 transportation accidents annually. Texting while driving is illegal in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Virginia made it a primary offense in July of this year. In the first four months of enforcement, Virginia State...
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