15-year-old suffers eye injury, concussion from football – $275,000 Settlement 
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Published: October 25, 2010
Tags: Albemarle County Circuit Court, Personal Injury
While at a birthday party for a mutual friend, the defendant 15-year-old boy threw a football at the plaintiff, also a 15-year-old boy. The end of the football struck the plaintiff’s right eye. The defendant testified during his deposition that he was trying to hit the plaintiff in his crotch, thought it would be funny, ...
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