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The Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a $14 million jury award to a young man severely injured in a single-car accident while driving a 2008 Hyundai Tiburon; the circuit court erred in admitting the opinion testimony of plaintiffs’ designated expert ...

Tagged with: Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Products Liability Supreme Court of Virginia

In a community fire department’s products liability suit against a manufacturer of equipment for aftermarket designers and manufacturers of fire engines, a Danville U.S. District Court says plaintiff’s claims for negligent design and duty to warn should go to a ...

Tagged with: Judge Jackson L. Kiser Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who was appointed as administrator of her son’s estate in Kentucky but who had not yet qualified as administrator in Virginia did not have standing to sue defendants in this personal injury suit against defendant tractor trailer drivers ...

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

The estate of a man who died from an alleged overdose of Dilaudid from a misprogrammed pain pump prescribed after the man’s hernia surgery may try its products liability action against the manufacturer of the pain pump; even though the ...

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

Defendant Lowe’s Home Centers wins summary judgment in this personal injury suit filed by a man who alleges he was exposed in a Lowe’s store to a waterproofer that spilled on him from a defective can, causing him injuries in ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this premises liability case, Best Buy wins summary judgment because plaintiff customer who alleged she fell after catching her pant leg on a protruding display end-cap in the store has presented no evidence to show defendant had actual or ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a Wegman’s employee did not stay near a warning cone after initially using paper towels to clean up a spill from a broken wine bottle, another employee arrived minutes later to clean mop the area, and the store acted ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The estate of a woman who drowned during a scuba diving certification class sufficiently alleges proximate causation with allegations about inadequate observation of divers and inadequate equipment and staffing, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court says defendants’ affirmative defenses of ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A quadriplegic resident of a nursing home has stated a medical malpractice claim by alleging she was identified upon admission as a fall risk but defendant nursing home failed to have adequate staff or an adequate plan in place to ...

Tagged with: Judge John A. Gibney Jr. Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendant Boy Scouts of America is not entitled to summary judgment in this tort action filed by a Boy Scout who alleges he suffered permanent injury from hemolytic uremic syndrome developed after his illness with E. coli contamination from ground ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District