Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

$1.43 million Type of Case: Breach of fiduciary duty Court: Alexandria Circuit Court Attorneys: Alexander Y. Thomas, Matthew R. Sheldon Summary: Minority shareholders in AutoMall Online Inc. contended that Michael L. Field Jr, the company’s founder, chairman and controlling shareholder ...

$1.5 million Type of Case: Wrongful death, medical malpractice, failure to diagnose melanoma Court: Virginia Beach Circuit Court Attorneys: Jonathan L. Thornton, David J. Pierce Summary: The first biopsy from a raw spot on the nail bed of Paul Vaughan’s ...

$1.5 million Type of Case: Wrongful death, police shooting Court: Richmond Circuit Court Attorney: Charles H. Cuthbert Jr. Summary: An 18-year-old mother of two was killed when she was accidentally shot by police who were breaking into an apartment to ...

$1.58 million Type of Case: Breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade secrets Court: Roanoke City Circuit Court Attorneys: Matthew W. Broughton, H. David Gibson, Gregory D. Habeeb Summary: A lamp company contended that its former contract sales manager breached ...

$1.75 million Type of Case: Personal injury, survival action, attempted murder Court: Augusta County Circuit Court Attorney: Steven P. Hammond Summary: Plaintiff’s decedent suffered a severe traumatic brain injury when his Jeep Cherokee rolled several times as he was attempting ...

$2 million Type of Case: Wrongful death, product liability, defective design of riding lawn mower Court: Roanoke Circuit Court Attorney: P. Brent Brown Summary: A 4-year-old boy was killed when a riding lawn mower rolled backward while on a slope ...

 $2.2 million Type of Case: Wrongful death, medical malpractice, failure to diagnose strep infection Court: Suffolk Circuit Court Attorneys: Thomas B. Shuttleworth, Lawrence H. Woodward Jr. Summary: A physician and a nurse practitioner did not consider the possibility of a strep ...

$2.25 million Type of Case: Police misconduct, fabricated confession Court: U.S. District Court, Charlottesville Attorneys: Robert T. Hall, Peter Neufeld Summary: The jury concluded that a Virginia State Police special agent, Curtis Reese Wilmore, fabricated the confession of Earl Washington ...

$2.5 million Type of Case: Medical malpractice, botched myelogram Court: Alexandria Circuit Court Attorney: Jack T. Burgess Summary: A firefighter/EMT who had injured his neck and back on the job underwent a myelogram but suffered immediate neurological complications when an ...

$2.3 million Type of Case: Wrongful death, pedestrians killed by reckless driver Court: Montgomery County Circuit Court Attorney: Bill K. Cruey Summary: A woman and her 6-year-old daughter were struck and killed by a disoriented driver as they walked along ...