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In this litigation arising from a woman’s injuries that occurred when the car in which she was a passenger was struck head-on by another vehicle in snowy conditions, the Roanoke U.S. District Court says the woman’s father has standing to ...

Tagged with: Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

In this discovery dispute in a medical malpractice case, a Newport News U.S. District Court denies defendant hospital and healthcare association’s motion for sanctions, and encourages both parties to act with civility. Defendants need not respond Supplemental Interrogatory No. 27, ...

Tagged with: Judge Gary A. Mills Medical Malpractice Newport News Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk U.S. District Court denies reconsideration of its Sept. 29 decision that plaintiffs who are suing defendant Trinity Industries for their injuries in a 2011 auto accident in Virginia when an allegedly defective highway guard rail rammed through the ...

Tagged with: Judge Rebecca Beach Smith Products Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although plaintiff, a former ship fitter and engineer who suffers from mesothelioma, has shown a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendant Westinghouse’s arc chutes plaintiff worked around contained asbestos, neither plaintiff’s testimony nor his expert’s reports and ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Krask Products Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court dismisses a legal malpractice claim filed by an employee of a surety company that was unsuccessfully defended by defendant lawyers in a government contractor’s suit charging the surety company and plaintiff individually with false advertising ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen E. Conrad Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

Real estate sellers who were sued by a title company that paid a claim to their buyers for an alleged problem with drafting of an access easement have their third-party complaint against the lawyer who drafted the easement and his ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

A customer who alleged injury from slipping on a wet floor in defendant Dollar General Store loses his suit on summary judgment because he has not shown the store had knowledge or notice of an alleged dangerous condition, according to ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

Although defendants did not plead contributory negligence or failure to mitigate damages in this medical malpractice action against an ER physician filed by the estate of a man who died of a pulmonary artery thromboembolism 18 days after the physician ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Western District

A man who lived in Virginia when he saw defendant emergency department physician on June 7, 2013, and was diagnosed with acute bronchitis, but who moved his family to Idaho on June 12, and died on June 25 of a ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Western District

In approving settlement of a wrongful death action arising from the death of a 34-year-old tractor-trailer driver, the Roanoke U.S. District Court awards the bulk of the $395,000 settlement to the driver’s aunt and uncle with whom he had lived ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District