Woman hurt in grocery wins $5M 
By Peter Vieth
Published: February 6, 2013
Tags: Gloucester County Circuit Court, Judge Walter J. Ford, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Supreme Court of Virginia News
A disabled Gloucester County woman has won a record-tying $5 million verdict for a fall in a supermarket. But her path to that victory wasn’t easy – she was shut out by the first jury she faced and needed a trip to the Supreme Court of Virginia to gain a second trial of her claim. [...]
Judge rejects use of comparisons
By Peter Vieth
Published: January 30, 2013
Tags: Judge Charles N. Dorsey, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Personal Injury, Roanoke Circuit Court, Supreme Court of Virginia News
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 [...]
Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2012
By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: January 21, 2013
Tags: Million-Dollar Verdicts
Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present its annual compilation of “Virginia’s Largest Verdicts.” A total of 20 qualifying verdicts made the list for 2012, the same number reported in last year’s survey. For inclusion in the survey, a verdict must have been for $1,000,000 or more, and it must have been returned by a [...]
Plaintiff claims hospital fall led to brain injury – $3,500,000 Verdict
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 21, 2013
Tags: Judge Timothy S. Fisher, Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Newport News Circuit Court
An 81-year-old total hip replacement patient fell while undergoing in-patient treatment at Riverside Hospital, fracturing her femur and hitting head. Twenty hours later, plaintiff suffered a mild cerebral stroke, which extended during orthopedic surgical repair under general anesthesia, causing permanent hemiplegia. Riverside had previously assessed the plaintiff as a high fall risk, but failed to [...]
Family doc did not send teen to ER after stroke diagnosis – $3,500,000 Verdict
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 21, 2013
Tags: Hampton Circuit Court, Judge Bonnie L. Jones, Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Verdicts
The plaintiff, an 18-year-old woman, scheduled an appointment with her family doctor due to her symptoms of tingling in her right arm, a tongue that felt “asleep,” a headache and the inability to feel her right leg. During her appointment at the office of her family doctor, a nurse practitioner saw the plaintiff. After examining [...]
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 [...]
Man suffers second stroke after first stroke misdiagnosed – $2,290,247 Verdict
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 7, 2013
Tags: Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Northampton County Circuit Court
Plaintiff presented to the emergency room at Shore Memorial Hospital with multiple stroke-like symptoms. After running a number of tests and a CT scan, the diagnosis was a migraine headache. Plaintiff was instructed to take an aspirin and return in three days for an MRI. On the second day, he suffered a serious stroke, was [...]
Failure to treat kidney stone results in sepsis, necrosis – $2,750,000 Verdict
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 7, 2013
Tags: Judge Everett A. Martin Jr., Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Norfolk Circuit Court
Plaintiff, age 71, began seeing defendant urologist in June 2008. The doctor identified a 6mm kidney stone and told the plaintiff it would pass. The following month the plaintiff went to the emergency room with renal colic, as the stone had shifted and was blocking the kidney’s juncture with the ureter, but then shifted. Over [...]
A return to ‘Riverside’
By Peter Vieth
Published: January 3, 2013
Tags: Judge Timothy S. Fisher, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Newport News Circuit Court, Personal Injury
An 87-year-old hospital patient injured in a fall has won a $3.5 million verdict against a Newport News hospital using high resolution imaging to dramatize alleged brain injuries for the jury. An appeal of Shirley Burrell’s verdict against the owner of Riverside Regional Medical Center could offer a ruling on the admission of hospital policies [...]
Brain tumor symptoms misdiagnosed as anxiety disorder – $1,300,000 Verdict
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: December 24, 2012
Tags: Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Rockingham County Circuit Court
This case involved a claim by a 25-year-old married mother of two young children for failure to diagnose a trigeminal schwannoma, a benign extra-axial brain tumor behind her left eye. The tumor pressed against the nerve fibers of the dura and her trigeminal nerve, the fifth cranial nerve, causing excruciating headaches, photophobia, tongue numbness and [...]
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