Comp Bar Does Not Stop Shipworkers’ Suit

No ‘Comp bar” from Equipment Assembly

By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 14, 2013
Tags: Judge Jerrauld C. Jones, Norfolk Circuit Court, Virginia Circuit Courts, Workers' Comp

Although a rental company employee who delivered sanitation equipment to a job site spent several extra hours assembling the custom equipment, he is not a statutory employee of defendant construction company, and the Norfolk Circuit Court overrules defendant’s special plea in bar of the Workers’ Compensation Act. The parties have stipulated that sanitation, the work [...]

P.I. plaintiff succeeds on second try after mistrial – $200,000 Verdict

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 30, 2012
Tags: Judge Jerrauld C. Jones, Norfolk Circuit Court, Personal Injury

On March 31, 2010, the plaintiff, a 23-year-old resident of Virginia Beach, suffered injuries when his vehicle was forced off the road by an unknown motorist on I-64 and slammed into construction equipment parked on the shoulder. There was no contact with the John Doe vehicle. After a brief investigation, the investigating trooper issued a [...]

Scenes from the VTLA

By Peter Vieth
Published: April 9, 2012
Tags: Judge Jerrauld C. Jones, Judge Leslie M. Alden, Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr., Practice Tips, Social Media, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

With 12 hours of continuing legal education from leaders of the bar, the court and the legislature, good advice was in plentiful supply at the annual convention of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association at The Greenbrier last month. Some samples: About Facebook “Never, ever, ever, ever tell your client to delete anything,” said Malcolm P. [...]