Category Archives: Disability

Construction accidents stories win Pulitzer Prize: Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the building boom on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Las Vegas Sun won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories exposing the causes of construction site injuries. Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the $32 billion building boom on the Las Vegas Strip. But deaths stopped last year after the Las Vegas Sun exposed…

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Mediation results in $5 million settlement for driver who sustained burns to 40% of his body in truck crash

Previously I have written about burn injuries and the pain and disability they cause. I have also discussed the benefits of mediation in catastrophic injury and disability cases. In a case mediated by former Alexandria Circuit Court Chief Judge Kent and prepared by my friend and experienced Richmond trial attorney Chris Guedri, the innocent plaintiff…

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