Virginia Tech professor Thurmon Lockhart has developed a fascinating approach to the prevention of slip and fall accidents among workers and the elderly. His innovative machine, the Slip Simulator, is now available to patients at Inova Hospital's Lansdowne campus. This…
All sports come with injury risk, and those risks grow as training and competition gets more intense. As high school teams all over Chesterfield County and the tri-cities region get their seasons rolling in the August heat, it is important…
Brain Injury Prevention. Loudoun County parents have run into some surprising opposition in their efforts to add impact sensors to the helmets of Loudoun Valley High School football players - the school's administrators. Both sides are expressing a commitment to…
The Loudoun County Attorney has one client, but that client has 9 heads. It is a tough job. Nobody did it better than Jack Roberts. June 18 marked the last Board of Supervisors meeting for Roberts, who retired July 1…
Many of our clients ask whether they will be required to reimburse their health insurance carrier for the payments it made for accident related treatment. These amounts can often be significant, as back and neck surgery expenses between $50,000 and…
The Loudoun Bar Association gathered at the Courthouse on June 5th to honor Judge Thomas D. Horne. At the time of his retirement at age 70 last year, Judge Horne was the longest sitting active judge in Virginia. He first…
In the greater Washington D.C. area, Uber has become a convenient way to travel. With their convenient smartphone application, and fares lower than local taxis, Uber has been expanding and hiring new drivers at an impressive rate. It is convenient…
A Loudoun County school bus was recently involved in an accident while bringing children to Mountain View Elementary School in Purcellville. Sixteen of the 37 children riding the bus were taken to Inova Loudoun Hospital with mostly minor injuries. The…
Peter Burnett has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 20th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey…
Burnett & Williams reached a major milestone this summer as we celebrated our 25th anniversary as a personal injury firm in Loudoun County. The firm was founded in 1988, a time of great change in personal injury and insurance law.…