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A $102,000 win for a Virginia man injured in an on-the-job car crash could prove a future hindrance for workers’ compensation insurance companies. A circuit judge ruled last month that a workers’ compensation insurance carrier had no lien against a ...

Tagged with: Judge Donald Carl Blessing Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission

A horse-drawn carriage ride business does not get protection under Virginia’s Equine Activity Liability Act in a lawsuit arising from an accident caused when horses ran wild, a judge has ruled. The first-impression decision draws boundaries on a law designed ...

Tagged with: Judge Anita D. Filson Rockbridge County Circuit Court

A husband facing a possible overdue support obligation of up to $238,000 can breathe a little easier with a judge’s ruling that his long-term reconciliation with his wife invalidated her claim for the support arrearage. The husband’s return to the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Family Law Judge David Bernhard

Tony Pham is not afraid to walk the back of a jail. After years spent working as an assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Richmond, as a public safety attorney representing Richmond’s police force and as an in-house attorney in the Richmond ...

Tagged with: Tony Pham

After a five-day trial marked by a series of evidence rulings, a Lynchburg jury rejected the negligence claims of a nursing home patient who was injured when he leapt from a third-floor window. Despite claims that the nursing home staff ...

Tagged with: Judge F. Patrick Yeatts Lynchburg Circuit Court Nursing Home Malpractice

By Steve Reynolds BridgeTower Media Newswires As we pass the halfway point of 2018, the stock market has experienced more volatility than we saw for all of 2017. Stock market valuations continue to trade near all-time highs, and volatility, as ...

BY HEATH HAMACHER BridgeTower Media Newswires One of the men responsible for the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002 that left 10 dead and three injured has won an appeal to have four life sentences reconsidered by the Virginia courts that ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Albert Diaz Judge Paul V. Niemeyer Judge Robert B. King

Two U.S. Magistrate judges have won top recommendations from bar groups for the federal judgeship now held by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson, who took senior status June 1. Magistrate Judge David J. Novak of Richmond was in the ...

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

As momentum grows to curtail the use of cash bonds for accused criminal defendants, some prosecutors and bail bond purveyors are pushing back. A national discussion is underway as lawyers, prosecutors and judges challenge the assumption that the best way ...

Tagged with: Judge David Bernhard

By DAVID DONOVAN BridgeTower Media Newswires The U.S. government will have to refund the restitution money it collected from a defendant who died while his conviction was on appeal, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in an ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Per Curiam Opinion