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• Mother Warns of Meningitis

  Dan Frith | May 23, 2008 7:41 AM | 2 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I read a sad story in my local newpaper recently. The story was about a 21 year old college student, just 3 months short of graduation, who suddenly died from meningitis. Meningitis is a bacterial...

• Judge Robert Bork: Is This Funny or What?

  Dan Frith | May 17, 2008 6:12 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Do you remember old Judge Robert H. Bork? The same Judge Bork who served as a solicitor general and acting attorney general in the 1970s. The same Judge Bork who, from 1982 to 1988, was a federal...

• Finally - A Judge Gets It!

  Dan Frith | May 13, 2008 6:18 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  Kudos to a Fulton Superior Court (Georgia) judge Marvin Arrington! Last week Judge Arrington found his state's law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases to be invalid. In 2005, the Georgia...

• Pfizer Settles Lawsuits Over Painkillers

  Dan Frith | May 09, 2008 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The reports are begining to be circulated that another member of "Big Pharma", Pfizer, Inc., has settled a group of cases with plaintiffs who allege the painkillers, Celebrex and Bextra, caused...

• PURDUE PHARMA wants Oxycotin back on the market...

  Lauren Ellerman | May 01, 2008 3:57 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Breaking news in our local paper - Roanoke Times: Purdue Pharma seeks FDA approval for new form of OxyContin "In a document posted today to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Web site, Purdue...

• Nursing Home Equipment Can Be Dangerous

  Dan Frith | May 01, 2008 6:38 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Over the years, nursing homes have been called upon to provide increasingly complex medical care to residents. Much of that complex care requires the use of sophisticated medical devices such as...

• Doctors Don't Report Problems

  Dan Frith | March 01, 2008 6:04 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  We were all told by our parents not to be a "tattletale" but I just read a report which bothers me. Eric Campbell of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston surveyed 1,600 doctors in 2003 and 2004 and his report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is disturbing.Approximately 96 percent of the doctors surveyed agreed they should report all instances of...

• Car and Semi-Truck in Accident in Roanoke County

  Shannon Weidemann | August 01, 2007 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A semi-truck making an unsafe lane change on Interstate 81 in Roanoke County hit a car. The truck accident was during the evening rush hour and caused a traffic slowdown. The driver of the car was taken to a local hospital to be treated for her injuries. The driver of the truck switched from the right lane to the left lane and, in doing so, struck a 2005 Pontiac Vibe. After striking the...

• Recurring Problems with Nursing Homes #7(2)

  Dan Frith | July 12, 2009 6:24 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Lauren and I have reviewed over 500 potential nursing home cases over the years and we see some problems over and over and over again. I decided we would share with our readers some of the more...

• Free Book Offer: How to Beat Your Virginia Non-Compete

  Dan Frith | April 14, 2009 3:42 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  In addition to representing consumers in medical malpractice and nursing home abuse cases, Lauren and I spend a large part of our time repesenting employees in disputes over the legality and...