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		<title>Drunken drivers struck equipment, killing crewman &#8211; $5,000,000 Verdict&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/29/drunken-drivers-struck-equipment-killing-crewman-5000000-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two intoxicated drivers entered a work zone and struck a blade implement hanging off the rear of a construction tractor. The impact turned the tractor and pinned the decedent, a road crewman, between the blade and a dump truck. Defendants claimed the tractor suddenly backed in front of them into their lane of travel. Sober [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plaintiff May Add ‘Informed Consent’ Claim&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Roanoke City Circuit Court says a plaintiff who alleges defendant was negligent in performing vascular surgery on her right thigh five years earlier may amend her complaint to allege defendant failed to obtain informed consent, as that claim relates back to the filing date of the original complaint; however, plaintiff’s punitive damages and fraud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge rejects use of comparisons&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/01/30/judge-emphatic-no-case-comparisons-to-reduce-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disabled Henry County woman keeps a $1.85 million award – reduced from a jury verdict of $6.5 million – as a Roanoke City circuit judge rejected defense claims that the sum awarded did not line up with past awards for similar injuries. The judge was quick to cite a brand new decision of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Judgment Domesticated in Virginia&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/11/05/maine-judgment-domesticated-in-virginia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Roanoke County Court grants the State of Maine’s motion for domestication of a judgment against defendant. Defendant argues that Maine’s complaint should be dismissed because the Maine judgment is not entitled to constitutional protection under the full faith and credit clause due to a violation of defendant’s procedural due process. When the court of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Chain Wins Appeal, Gets Fees&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this first-impression case construing regulations governing the Medicaid funds a nursing home chain may claim in the aggregate for uninsured losses, a Roanoke County Circuit Court overturns the state agency decision disallowing plaintiff nursing home chain’s nearly $1 million in provider liability costs from the chain’s 2008 cost reports, and awards attorney’s fees and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing home patient broke arm, femur in unwitnessed fall &#8211; $6,500,000 Verdict&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/04/30/nursing-home-patient-broke-arm-femur-in-unwitnessed-fall-6500000-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An 84-year-old nursing home patient sustained an unwitnessed fall in her bedroom. Plaintiff claimed the fall was caused by the nursing home&#8217;s failure to apply and monitor a fall alarm in her bed, which was required by the patient&#8217;s care plan. The nursing home staff claimed the bed alarm was used and sounded just before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing home fall nets $6.5M verdict&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/04/27/nursing-home-fall-nets-6-5m-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Roanoke City jury returned verdicts totaling $6.5 million for an 84-year-old woman injured in a fall at a nursing home. With an award of $5 million in punitive damages, the jury evidently sought to punish the owner of the home for a policy that discouraged the use of bed alarms to signal when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Virginia Jurisdiction Over Japanese Company&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/09/27/no-virginia-jurisdiction-over-japanese-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman who alleges she was injured while operating a saddle stitching machine that a Roanoke company obtained from a Japanese manufacturer through its North American distributor cannot sue the Japanese company in Roanoke City Circuit Court; the manufacturer had no physical locations in the U.S., did not specifically target Virginia, attended no trade shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Inverse Condemnation for Leasehold&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/09/12/no-inverse-condemnation-for-leasehold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although a billboard advertising company says its leasehold on land that has been purchased after condemnation by the Roanoke Redevelopment &#38; Housing Authority has been damaged because the Authority is more likely to terminate its leasehold than would a private owner, the Roanoke City Circuit Court rejects the company’s suit for inverse condemnation. On Nov. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Valuation Report Has ‘Palpable Error’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/05/09/business-valuation-report-has-%e2%80%98palpable-error%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 14:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In construing an S corporation’s Redemption Agreement to allow an ailing principal to cash out his shares, a Roanoke City Circuit Court says there is “palpable error” on the face of the independent appraiser’s report, which may let the remaining principals out of that appraiser’s $3.5 million valuation of the money management business. Plaintiff Peter [...]]]></description>
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