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		<title>Medical practice was liable, doctor was not&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/14/medical-practice-was-liable-doctor-was-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Johnny E. Morrison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of Virginia has reinstated a jury verdict against a Portsmouth medical practice for alleged sloppy management in the case of a 24-year-old patient who died of pneumonia. The trial judge ruled the $3.5-million verdict had to be set aside because the jury made inconsistent findings &#8211; exonerating the doctor, but finding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Longshoreman unable to work after motorcycle collided with tractor-trailer &#8211; $1,132,000 Settlement&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiff, a 54-year-old male, was operating his motorcycle on Turnpike Road in Portsmouth when the defendant tractor-trailer driver failed to yield the right-of-way by making an illegal u-turn in front of the plaintiff. The collision resulted in the plaintiff’s hand being crushed by defendant’s truck. Plaintiff suffered a very complex fracture of the middle finger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jury finds police shooting wasn’t gross negligence &#8211; Defense Verdict&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/04/09/jury-finds-police-shooting-wasn%e2%80%99t-gross-negligence-defense-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Portsmouth Police Department received reliable information that Antujuan Marshall, a convicted felon with a record of violence, had been dealing heroin. They executed a planned roadblock &#8220;takedown&#8221; as he was driving to an anticipated drug sale. Marshall rammed his way out of the roadblock. After a brief high-speed chase, during which he threw a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement About Staffer Not Fraud&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An environmental staffing company’s representation to a subcontractor on an asbestos abatement project, that the staffing company had “exactly what you are looking for,” in reference to the resume of an abatement supervisor it submitted to the sub, does not support the sub’s fraud claims against the staffing company, says a Portsmouth Circuit Court. Defendant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Sets Aside $3.5M Med-Mal Award&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/04/25/court-sets-aside-35m-med-mal-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Portsmouth Circuit Court sets aside a $3.5 million med-mal award because the verdict form showed the jury did not find the doctor liable, but found the doctor’s practice group liable, and there was no evidence that the practice group was independently liable for alleged failure to communicate a diagnosis of pneumonia to decedent. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jury verdict creates issue of respondeat superior &#8211; Plaintiff’s Verdict Set Aside&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/04/25/jury-verdict-creates-issue-of-respondeat-superior-plaintiff%e2%80%99s-verdict-set-aside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The estate of a 24-year-old decedent alleged at trial that the defendant doctor and his group were liable for the failure of the doctor to timely advise the decedent of the presence of pneumonia as evidenced by a chest X-ray. The jury returned a $3,500,000 verdict (later reduced to $1,850,000 pursuant to the medical malpractice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portsmouth judge sets aside $3.5 med-mal award&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/04/19/portsmouth-judge-sets-aside-35-med-mal-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Johnny E. Morrison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Portsmouth judge has set aside a $3.5 million verdict against a medical practice group because the verdict exonerated the employee-physician who the plaintiff alleged was negligent. The doctor’s office allegedly dialed the wrong phone number, then failed to follow up, to let a man know that test results showed pneumonia, not an upper respiratory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man dies from pneumonia before learning of diagnosis &#8211; $3,500,000 Verdict&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/01/17/man-dies-from-pneumonia-before-learning-of-diagnosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 24-year-old decedent went to the defendant doctor with chest pain and a cough. He was diagnosed with chestwall pain and prescribed a narcotic pain reliever. The decedent returned the next day with complaints of increased chest pain and spitting up blood-stained sputum. He was perspiring and vomiting in the doctor’s waiting room. He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merchant seaman wins $25M in Portsmouth&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/01/10/merchant-seaman-wins-25m-in-portsmouth/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/01/10/merchant-seaman-wins-25m-in-portsmouth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Portsmouth jury has awarded $25 million to a merchant seaman who said the shipping company he worked for fired him rather than responding properly to his allegation that he had been sexually assaulted by South Korean policemen. The complaint in Seaman Doe v. Maersk Line Ltd. stemmed from an incident in July 2008 when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tractor-trailer rear ends car, kills passenger &#8211; $3,500,000 Settlement&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/12/06/tractor-trailer-rear-ends-car-kills-passenger-3500000-settlement/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/12/06/tractor-trailer-rear-ends-car-kills-passenger-3500000-settlement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge James C. Hawks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A commercial driver in a tractor-trailer rear-ended a passenger vehicle on Interstate 64 in Norfolk on Dec. 17, 2009. Plaintiff’s decedent was a passenger in the car being operated by a friend who was driving slowly after a tire problem. The two vehicles caught on fire and decedent, a 25-year-old man, was trapped in the [...]]]></description>
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