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A 3-year-old boy was bitten by a pit bull and suffered severe injuries to his head and face. He also experienced emotional pain and suffering. The plaintiff was awarded $450,000 in arbitration, and this was reduced down to $300,000 in ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury

The seller of a warehouse full of seasonal and sports-branded merchandise who waited until six weeks before the trial date to invoke contract remedies including arbitration has waived his right to arbitrate a dispute over the merchantability of the inventory, ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A federal judge has questioned why there needs to be a separate court challenge to Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. At a Harrisonburg hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski asked why the same-sex lawsuit in his court ...

A medical malpractice lawsuit filed with the wrong case style has resulted in a $4 million legal malpractice verdict in Richmond Circuit Court. In the underlying med-mal case, the lawyers for an injured teen named her parents as plaintiffs, not ...

Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Legal Malpractice Medical Malpractice Richmond Circuit Court

A Richmond lawyer has agreed to a public reprimand to resolve Virginia State Bar charges that he mishandled fee agreements with two prisoners who hired him to investigate injury claims. Leroy W. Allen took on legal work for two state ...

Tagged with: Lawyer Discipline Virginia State Bar

A woman who fell and broke her leg as she was leaving a funeral reception cannot sue the church even though she was not a member of the church or the decedent’s family, under the ruling of a Westmoreland County ...

Tagged with: Judge Harry T. Taliaferro III Personal Injury Premises Liability Westmoreland County Circuit Court

Imagine that after five years of litigating a complicated patent case, you’re headed into a jury trial in federal court. Now imagine you represent the plaintiff and you call your first witness. The judge speaks: “Ladies and gentleman of the ...

Tagged with: Discovery Federal Courts Intellectual Property Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen Judge Tommy E. Miller Sanctions

This was a legal malpractice lawsuit arising out of a medical malpractice claim. Plaintiff was an active and athletic 13-year-old when she was diagnosed with adolescent scoliosis. She sought treatment from Dr. Susan Atkins, a Richmond pediatric orthopedist, who ultimately ...

Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Legal Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court

The Virginia State Bar is taking a fresh look at its relationship with lawyer malpractice insurance carriers, including the bar’s current endorsed carrier, the Montana-based Attorneys Liability Protection Society or ALPS. The VSB’s Lawyer Malpractice Insurance Committee last month approved ...

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