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...
Category: Premises liability
A Wisconsin man who fell three stories in a construction accident was awarded more than $7 million by a jury last week. An Iowa jury last week ordered a construction company and hotel builder to pay $7 million to the worker...
Yesterday, Doug Landau wrote a post about a Woodbridge lawyer who settled hundreds of cases without telling his clients or their families. Attorney Stephen Conrad then went bankrupt, was sentenced to 132 months in jail...
Woodbridge lawyer steals $4 million from clients, prompting Virginia State Bar to consider “Payee Notification”
April 14, 2009
After a Prince William County lawyer stole millions of dollars from clients, the Virginia State bar is reconsidering a Payee Notification Rule. Stephen Conrad settled hundreds of car crash, premises liability and other...
Child exposed to lead-based paint in apartment wins $12.72 million jury verdict for severe intellectual and behavioral problems
April 13, 2009
According to the April 2009, American Association for Justice Law Reporter, the Plaintiff was an infant when he and his mother moved into an apartment building built before 1960. When the child was 21 months old, blood...