The VLW Blog

Doctors who seek to avoid med-mal liability by petitioning to get a case before Virginia’s birth-injury compensation program can’t collect legal fees from the program. In a Nov. 22 decision in In re: Subham Patel, the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission reversed fee awards to lawyers for a physician and her practice group, and lawyers for [...]

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Chief U.S. District Judge James Jones of the Western District clearly was unimpressed with one medical malpractice plaintiff’s efforts to preserve a $150,000 offer of judgment in the face of damaging disclosures. Information about the plaintiff’s painkiller habit was a “bombshell” said the judge, describing efforts to minimize the impact of the disclosure as “pure [...]

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It was a good day in the Supreme Court of Virginia for the holders of big verdicts. The court affirmed seven-figure judgments in four cases with nothing in common other than the size of the awards. In Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner v. Target Corp., the court upheld an award of $3.3 million in damages to the [...]

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