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Plaintiffs seek $2.5M in shoulder dystocia case – Defense Verdict

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 16, 2012
Tags: Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Daniel T. Balfour, Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts

During the plaintiff mother’s delivery on June 27, 2004, the defendant obstetrician encountered a shoulder dystocia. In response, the defendant obstetrician performed various delivery maneuvers in an effort to safely deliver the infant plaintiff including gentle downward traction, the McRobert’s position, supra pubic pressure and the Wood’s screw.
Although the defendant obstetrician successfully delivered the infant [...]

Some Payments Gifts to Wife, Some to Couple

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 10, 2012
Tags: Domestic Relations, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Daniel T. Balfour, Virginia Circuit Courts

Although wife’s father testified the multiple payments he provided to wife were gifts to her alone, the Henrico County Circuit Court says it’s less clear from the depositions, and some of the payments were to both and some were wife’s alone.
Wife testified there was no physical relationship when she reconnected with a former college boyfriend, [...]

Nature of gifts at issue in couple’s divorce

By Paul Fletcher
Published: January 5, 2012
Tags: Domestic Relations, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Daniel T. Balfour

When a wife’s father said that a $15,000 payment was for “y’all,” he made a joint gift to the couple, despite his later testimony that he intended only to help his daughter.
Henrico Circuit Judge Daniel T. Balfour had to weigh a number of gifts in Polich v. Polich (VLW 011-8-232) to determine whether they were [...]

Auto Liability Policy Voided for Arrest Record

By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 21, 2011
Tags: Henrico County Circuit Court, Insurance, Judge Catherine Hammond, Virginia Circuit Courts

An auto liability policy is void because the applicant, a sole proprietor who applied as “Kitchens Unlimited LLC,” had a criminal record but denied he had ever been arrested; the Henrico Circuit Court grants judgment to plaintiff insurance carrier in this dec action filed by the applicant and the severely injured plaintiff with whom he [...]

Claim: Trucker was warned about wheels before they came off – $3,550,000 Settlement

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: September 19, 2011
Tags: Henrico County Circuit Court, Million-Dollar Settlements, Wrongful Death

On the morning of the incident, plaintiff’s decedent was on her way to work. The rear tandem wheels of a tractor-trailer owned and operated by the defendants disengaged from the trailer and crashed into decedent’s vehicle, resulting in decedent’s death. Approximately five minutes before the incident, another motorist had flagged the driver of the tractor [...]

Wife Wants Annulment, Husband Gets Divorce

By Deborah Elkins
Published: August 22, 2011
Tags: Domestic Relations, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Catherine Hammond, Virginia Circuit Courts

An American citizen wife who met her Indian national husband through the Internet and married him in Henrico and then again five months later in an “elaborate religious wedding” in India is not entitled to an annulment on the ground that the marriage was not consummated; a Henrico Circuit Court says failure to consummate the [...]

Court Pierces Veil on Sub’s Contract Claim

By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 6, 2011
Tags: Corporate, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Gary Hicks, Virginia Circuit Courts

A subcontractor on a boiler project at the University of Richmond can pierce the corporate veil of its own subcontractor and win judgment against the sub-subcontractor ’s sole shareholder of its defunct corporation, as the shareholder failed to observe corporate formalities; but the Henrico Circuit Court denies reverse corporate veil piercing against another corporation formed [...]

Contractor can pursue assets of owner of sub

By Peter Vieth
Published: July 1, 2011
Tags: Corporate, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Gary Hicks

A Richmond electrical contractor can go after the personal assets of an electrical engineer whose company allegedly botched a job at the University of Richmond.
Henrico County Circuit Judge Gary A. Hicks let the contractor pierce the corporate veil of a now-defunct engineering firm and entered judgment against the owner. But the judge refused to pierce [...]

Umbrella becomes UIM: Man gets full policy limits

By Peter Vieth
Published: April 18, 2011
Tags: Henrico County Circuit Court, Insurance, Judge Gary Hicks, Personal Injury

An injured motor vehicle passenger learned last November that he could get underinsured motorist coverage from his umbrella liability policy in a rare policy interpretation. This month he learned how much he could recover: he gets to tap the full limits of the umbrella policy, under a ruling from a Henrico County circuit judge.
The decision [...]

Intersection collision kills father and son in Henrico – $3,000,000 Verdict

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 18, 2011
Tags: Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Lee A. Harris Jr., Million-Dollar Verdicts, Wrongful Death

The 52-year-old decedent was involved in a two-vehicle collision on Laburnum Avenue in Henrico County on March 3, 2009.
Shortly before trial, the defendant admitted liability. At a failed mediation, the only offer was $700,000. There were no additional negotiations.
During closing argument, defense counsel told the jury his client felt that $1,000,000 would be full compensation [...]

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