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Man died after surgery, doctors prevail in death suit – Defense Verdict

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 16, 2012
Tags: Judge Mary Grace O'Brien, Medical Malpractice, Prince William County Circuit Court, Wrongful Death

At 10:30 a.m. on May 1, 2008, the decedent, age 80, was brought to the Prince William Hospital Emergency Department by ambulance with complaints of severe back and right hip pain, nausea and vomiting, which had started that morning. Awake, alert and screaming for morphine, decedent provided the triage nurse and ER physician, a defendant, [...]

Pastor killed in truck accident – $1,100,000 Settlement

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 9, 2012
Tags: Million-Dollar Settlements, Powhatan County Circuit Court, Wrongful Death

On Jan. 21, 2011, at approximately 8:30 a.m., decedent, the father of the plaintiff, was traveling westbound on U.S. Route 360 in Amelia County. The defendant failed to stop at a stop sign, failed to observe a blinking traffic control device and proceeded onto 360, a four-lane divided roadway. Decedent was traveling at about 55 [...]

Shooting case mediated after mistrial – $1,250,000 Settlement

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 9, 2012
Tags: Million-Dollar Settlements, Wrongful Death

Decedent was shot and killed during a traffic stop. A jury trial in March resulted in a mistrial because the jury could not reach a unanimous decision. Post-trial interviews of the jurors revealed a 6-1 split in favor of the plaintiff, and their verdict ranges.
Due to language in the primary insurance carrier’s policy, the first [...]

Trucker with sleep apnea crushed VW in wreck – $4,800,000 Settlement

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: December 19, 2011
Tags: Million-Dollar Settlements, Wrongful Death

A truck driver for a major trucking company fell asleep on Route 15 in Pennsylvania, woke up and applied brakes just before striking and crushing decedent’s VW Passat on Feb. 15, 2007. Discovery revealed that truck driver had complained of daytime sleepiness in September 2003 and undergone sleep apnea testing, which revealed mild sleep apnea. [...]

Identical twins were born prematurely and died

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: December 12, 2011
Tags: Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death

$375,000 Settlement
The plaintiffs alleged negligence by defendant radiologist and defendant obstetricians in their failure to diagnose and to treat in a timely fashion the twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) that the identical twins were experiencing in the womb. As a result, the babies were born prematurely and died shortly after birth.
Both negligence and proximate cause of [...]

Family can ask hotel about safety policies

By Paul Fletcher
Published: December 9, 2011
Tags: Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr., Personal Injury, Roanoke Circuit Court, Wrongful Death

The family of a woman who got separated on a care facility “field trip” to The Homestead and died after a fall down some stairs there can ask hotel personnel about the resort’s safety policies and procedures, a judge sitting in Roanoke has ruled.
Christopher W. Stevens, The Homestead’s lawyer, directed two resort employees not [...]

Man died 18 months after anoxic brain injury – $1,375,000 Settlement

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: December 5, 2011
Tags: Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Settlements, Wrongful Death

The plaintiff’s decedent was involved in an automobile collision and suffered a herniated T-10 disk. A neurosurgeon performed an anterior thoracolumbar fusion surgery to treat the herniated disk several months after the accident. During the procedure, the surgeon damaged the patient’s aorta, causing a significant hematoma. Emergency repair surgery was performed immediately. However, the decedent [...]

Claim against ER doc in death case struck – Defense Verdict

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: November 28, 2011
Tags: Judge James H. Chamblin, Loudoun County Circuit Court, Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts, Wrongful Death

This was a medical malpractice case involving emergency medical treatment provided to the plaintiff, at the Loudoun Hospital Center on Oct. 30, 2004. At the time of presentation, the ER physician defendant was told that the plaintiff had recently had an artificial insemination procedure. Originally this was the only information the family could [...]

Court orders record sanction against Charlottesville lawyer

By Peter Vieth
Published: November 9, 2011
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Sanctions, Wrongful Death

In what appears to be the final trial court chapter of a tangled Charlottesville legal saga, a judge has imposed $542,000 in sanctions against attorney Matthew B. Murray for hiding evidence and trying to deflect blame for lapses in his disclosures to the court.
The monetary penalty is a record for sanctions against a lawyer in [...]

Case over failure to diagnose prostate cancer settles – $1,375,000 Settlement

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: October 24, 2011
Tags: Fairfax County Circuit Court, Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Settlements, Wrongful Death

Due to a rise in patient’s PSA (prostate specific antigen—a marker for potential prostate cancer), patient’s primary physician referred him to a urologist who recommended a prostate biopsy to determine if the cause of the rise in PSA was due to cancer. According to the urologist, he told the patient to call for the results [...]

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