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A False Claims Act case involving scientists in a lab at Duke University Health System tops Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s compilation of Million-Dollar Settlements of 2019. The whistleblower action came against a lab in Duke’s Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical ...

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Where a law firm incurred costs and fees, including expert fees, during defense of the client’s case, and the client introduced no evidence to support its claim that those expenses were unnecessary, the client was liable for unpaid fees and ...

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

The circuit court erred by striking plaintiff’s claims of excessive force, false arrest and illegal search against defendant police officer on the basis of sovereign and qualified immunity. Defendant did not challenge the jury’s findings that he was liable for ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Civil Rights Supreme Court of Virginia

Where claimant injured his neck and left arm at work, underwent surgery, and fell and injured his knee after he became dizzy from pain medication, he was correctly awarded permanent and total disability compensation under Code § 65.2-503(C). The knee ...

Tagged with: Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

Petrova v. Leach, Record No. 0596-19-4, Dec. 27, 2019. CAV (Decker) from Fairfax Cir. Ct. (Smith). Demian J. McGarry for appellant, Alanna C. E. Williams for appellee. VLW 019-7-238, 13 pp. Unpublished. Full-Text Opinion

A major jury verdict in Alexandria federal court is a triumph for music labels against a cable giant, and it tops the list in Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s compilation of “Largest Verdicts” for 2019. In a result that was hailed by ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Verdicts

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Plaintiff, a lawyer, alleged that defendants negligently failed to advise her of all of the risks and potential complications of a cosmetic laser procedure. Plaintiff claimed that defendants disregarded contraindications to the procedure; as a result, plaintiff suffered permanent scarring, ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Lewis Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Virginia Beach Circuit Court