‘Corrosion’ exclusion does not bar coverage

Insurer wants out of civil suit against Huguely

By Dolan Media Newswires
Published: May 22, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Federal Courts, Insurance

George W. Huguely V, the former University of Virginia lacrosse player who was convicted in February 2012 of killing his former girlfriend, is being sued in Maryland federal court by his mother’s insurance company. Chartis Property Casualty Co., a New York-based member company of American International Group Inc., filed suit in U.S. District Court in [...]

Virginia high court to weigh cameras in courtrooms

By Peter Vieth
Published: April 26, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Technology

The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to look at whether judges have an unfettered right to reject news cameras in their courtrooms, or whether they need a good reason to block access. The issue comes in the appeal arising from the emotion-laden trial of George Huguely V, the University of Virginia student convicted last [...]

Officer Has Sovereign Immunity for Accident

By Deborah Elkins
Published: April 22, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Negligence, Virginia Circuit Courts

The Charlottesville Circuit Court grants a plea of sovereign immunity to a police officer who was responding to another officer’s call for assistance in handling traffic after a two-vehicle collision on a dark, rainy night; defendant officer was engaged in a governmental function when he was attempting to position his vehicle to divert traffic. Officer [...]

Defendant claimed pedestrian was drunk, not in crosswalk – $190,000 Verdict

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: March 18, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Personal Injury

This case stemmed from a motor vehicle versus pedestrian collision. Plaintiff and eyewitnesses placed the plaintiff in a marked crosswalk with a “walk” signal at the time of the collision. Defendant testified that the plaintiff ran out in front of his vehicle about 50 yards beyond the crosswalk. Defendant also argued that the plaintiff was [...]

Announcer settles claim after ‘Crushtation’ accident – $675,000 Settlement

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: February 25, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Personal Injury

Plaintiff was the announcer at a monster truck show, and was run over by the front left wheel of a truck called “Crushstation” (shaped like an oversized lobster on huge wheels). Plaintiff alleged that he was caught in a pinch when the spotters employed by the production company negligently directed the monster truck to move [...]

High court reinstates full verdict in ‘Lester’

By Peter Vieth
Published: January 10, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Justice Cleo E. Powell, Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Wrongful Death

The Supreme Court of Virginia has reinstated the full jury verdict of $6,227,000 on Isaiah Lester’s wrongful death claim based on the loss of his wife in a car accident in 2007. The court’s ruling closes the book on a high-profile, high-dollar personal-injury case in Albemarle County. The trial judge had reduced the jury’s award [...]

No Brady Hearing on Planned Civil Suit

By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 10, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Criminal, Judge Edward Hogshire, Virginia Circuit Courts

A Charlottesville Circuit Court denies defendant George Huguely V’s motion for an evidentiary hearing on his claim that the commonwealth violated Brady v. Maryland by withholding information about plans by the family of the victim, Huguely’s fellow UVa student and former girlfriend, to file a civil suit for wrongful death. The defense is seeking a [...]

Former U.Va. athlete gets 23 years for slaying ex

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: September 10, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire

CHARLOTTESVILLE — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player who killed his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage received a 23-year prison sentence Aug. 30 in a case that forever changed the school’s attitudes toward relationship violence and made it easier for abuse victims in the state to obtain restraining orders. George W. Huguely V had [...]

No ‘Equitable Indemnification’ in Towing Case

By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 30, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Negligence, Virginia Circuit Courts

In a follow-up to this court’s decision that plaintiff wrecker service must indemnify the city for a $200,000 loss for fire damage to a city bus the wrecker service was towing, a Charlottesville Circuit Court says the wrecker service does not have a claim for equitable indemnification against the two defendants who prepared the bus [...]