When 38-year-old Melvin A. Dillard Jr. felt chest pains June 26, he was rushed to a hospital in Lewes, Del., where he was checked out by medical personnel in the emergency room and then later released. But while Dillard was sitting in the ER lobby waiting for a ride home at Beebe Medical Center, he…

After a 20-year-old man suffered serious facial injuries while warming up for a league soccer game in Maryland in 2008, he was not able to recover damages for his injuries. That's because he lived in Maryland, one of only four states and the District of Columbia, where a plaintiff cannot recover any monetary damages at all if a judge or jury finds that they have contributed to their accident by as little as 1 percent.

On his way to a Sweet 16 party with a large group of friends on a double-decker “party bus,” a 16-year-old boy decided to open a rooftop hatch door to stick his head into a cool breeze. Instead, tragically, the boy met a horrific death when he stuck his head through the roof door and…

We all remember the freedom, the thrill, the excitement of getting our driver’s license as young people, and with it the wonderful realization that we could go anywhere, anytime, as long as we had wheels. That exhilaration and freedom doesn’t go away as we get older, but unfortunately, our skills can deteriorate as we age,…

As Hurricane Isaac continues its swath through New Orleans, Louisiana, Alabama and other hard-hit areas, the massive storm is dumping rain by the foot and bringing powerful and destructive flooding as well as high winds. Here in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, we often see the remnants of such storms as they travel here from…

In what might be one of the most senseless and tragic horrors to befall families, eight young children across the United States died in the first week of August when they became severely overheated after being left unattended in hot vehicles. Eight children died. In one single seven-day span. In the U.S., one of the…