Greensboro Personal Injury Law Blog

Both employees and employers in North Carolina have an interest in preventing a work-related accident. According to a new paper from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Science, one way to do this is by implementing a comprehensive fatigue risk management system.

It is believed that about 38 percent of workers in the United States suffer from fatigue, which can be described as feeling weary, tired or lacking energy. Additionally, fatigue is associated with many other health conditions, including both physical and mental disorders.

There are tough laws against driving under the influence of alcohol in North Carolina. Even so, drunk driving accidents devastate a number of families in the state each year.

Late last month, a North Carolina man was sentenced to 15 years in jail after pleading guilty to hitting a man on a motorcycle while he was driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol in August. The motorcyclist died at the scene.

When we go to the hospital in North Carolina or elsewhere, we expect that our condition will be made better, not worse. Sadly, this is not the case for the thousands of people who fall victim to medical malpractice each year.

Surgical errors are just one type of medical malpractice that is more common than it should be. Wrong-site surgeries, in particular, seem like they would be very rare, but actually occur with some regularity.

Small planes can be extremely dangerous. If something goes wrong with the plane in the air, it can be nearly impossible to make a safe landing, no matter how skilled the pilot may be. That is why people who perform maintenance on planes have such important jobs.

A well known businessman from Greensboro, North Carolina, was killed in a plane crash on Friday evening, the Greensboro News & Record reported. Depending on the results of an investigation, a wrongful death lawsuit is possible.