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Judge sets aside $5.225M verdict in Best Buy case (access required)

By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: October 10, 2011
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A Newport News judge has set aside a multimillion dollar personal injury award against electronics retailer Best Buy on the grounds the verdict was excessive. In August, a seven-member jury awarded $5,225,000 to Michael Chavis, who was injured after a forklift ran over his foot at a Best Buy store in Newport News. During post-trial [...]

Plaintiff with neck injury gets almost 4 times his last demand – $210,000 Verdict (access required)

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: October 10, 2011
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On Aug. 17, 2008, a John Doe defendant sideswiped the plaintiff’s vehicle, causing him to crash into a concrete Jersey wall on I-64 in Newport News. John Doe did not stop and was never identified. Plaintiff was 57 years old and retired at the time of the incident. He declined medical attention at the scene, [...]

Best Buy is hit with $5.225M verdict in NN (access required)

By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: September 12, 2011
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A Newport News jury has awarded $5,225,000 to a 53-year-old man who was injured after a retailer’s forklift ran over his foot. On July 22, 2006, Michael Chavis was at a Best Buy store in Newport News looking at a television. In the same aisle, in front of the TV display, was a forklift that [...]

Lawyers question logic of attorney testimony case (access required)

By Peter Vieth
Published: August 15, 2011
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In a case that surprised some criminal defense lawyers, the Virginia Court of Appeals approved the use of a lawyer’s testimony against his former client in a decision released earlier this month. In a malicious wounding trial in Newport News, a key witness suddenly became forgetful about whether he saw defendant Mario Turner shoot the [...]

‘Mutual wills’ depend more on trust than law (access required)

By Alan Cooper
Published: July 19, 2011
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Second marriages and “first” children are generating more issues in estate-planning practice, as couples continue to divorce and remarry before they can celebrate that golden anniversary with one spouse. One of those issues is making sure the children of each spouse get treated equitably when the last parent dies. Mutual wills, sometimes accompanied by a [...]

Asbestos Claim Against Shipyard Dismissed (access required)

By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 15, 2011
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In this suit by the estate of a man who allegedly died from mesothelioma contracted from asbestos exposure after he worked on construction of the U.S. Navy submarine Lewis & Clark in 1965, a Newport News Circuit Court dismisses plaintiff’s claim against defendant shipyard. I am unaware of this issue being raised in the asbestos [...]

25-foot-wide load in 22-foot roadway causes collision in Newport News – $1,750,000 Settlement (access required)

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: July 11, 2011
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Plaintiff, a young unlicensed male driver was struck by a “wide load truck” transporting equipment from a shipyard. The existing roadway was under construction for widening. Two lanes were available in each direction, and each lane was 11 feet wide. Defendant construction company was transporting two 25-foot wide metal platforms at night in a convoy. [...]

Vehicle blocking lane causes abrupt move by tractor-trailer – $200,000 Verdict (access required)

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: June 20, 2011
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Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband. They were following a tractor- trailer on a rainy morning on U.S. 58 exiting the City of Suffolk in a 60 mph zone. A vehicle driven by Jane Doe had pulled out and was stopped in the right lane of the highway with no [...]

Transmission repair fails; truck rolls over 85-year-old – $1,000,000 Settlement (access required)

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 23, 2011
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In March 2010, plaintiff’s decedent, age 85, drove his pickup truck from Hillsville to Pete’s Auto Service of Denbigh Inc., located in the Newport News, and contracted with Pete’s Auto to perform repairs on his vehicle. Pete’s Auto undertook to remove and repair the transmission of decedent’s truck. Decedent placed a high degree of trust [...]

Shipyard worker blames Exxon for mesothelioma – $25,000,000 Verdict (access required)

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: April 4, 2011
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A former ship repair supervisor contracted mesothelioma almost 30 years after he last worked for Newport News Shipbuilding on oil tankers owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. Plaintiff, now 72, contended that the disease was caused by his exposure to asbestos in the engine and boiler rooms of 17 ships he worked on from 1966-77, some [...]

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