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Longtime Virginia Beach lawyer Edward T. Caton, who served in both the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate, died in Norfolk Nov. 18. He was 86. A native of Norfolk, Mr. Caton graduated from the University of Virginia in ...

On Nov. 19, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked the law license of Arthur E. Davis III of Alexandria based on his affidavit consenting to the revocation. In consenting to the revocation, Davis acknowledged that the disciplinary charges against ...

(AP) A Virginia lawmaker who recently submitted his resignation says he will not seek the Democratic nomination for the House of Delegates seat in a special election. Joseph D. Morrissey still could run as an independent or not at all. ...

The patient was a 68-year-old male with a history of hypertension, a half-pack per day smoking habit, hypertensive heart disease, GERD, alcoholism and colon polyps. He presented to the hospital on Aug. 8, 2011, for a colectomy and subtotal and ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Petersurg Circuit Court

In December 2013, the driver of a commercial box truck rear-ended a van in the right hand lane on a major street in Hampton Roads with a 35 mph speed limit. The driver of the van was ejected and died ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

Plaintiff, a mostly retired fisherman, was riding his motorcycle when the defendant pulled out from a commercial parking lot into his path of travel. Plaintiff’s motorcycle was bent severely, and he suffered broken hip, leg and ankle from the collision. ...

Tagged with: Mathews County Circuit Court Personal Injury

Plaintiff, a 49-year-old woman, was driving southbound on I-81 for work when the defendant’s decedent left the northbound lanes of I-81, crossed the median, entered the southbound lanes, and collided head-on with the plaintiff’s vehicle. Decedent, a beloved schoolteacher in ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury Washington County Circuit Court

Plaintiff was traveling home after visiting with his wife in a local hospital. On his way home, defendant was operating a farm use truck on a dark country four-lane highway. Plaintiff’s car struck the rear of the farm truck at ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Suffolk Circuit Court

A handful of withering interviews with judges seeking new terms this month may signal a new level of scrutiny for the judiciary at the Virginia General Assembly. The sharp questioning from legislators Dec. 12 was driven by anonymous surveys of ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Judicial Performance Evaluation

On June 25, 2010, plaintiff’s decedent, a 49-year-old female who worked as a computer systems analyst making $175,000 per year, presented to the defendant rheumatologist for diagnosis and treatment of a persistent forearm rash, aching joints, shortness of breath and ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death