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In this wrongful death suit against a school board for a bus accident that killed a four-year-old child, the trial court erred in in ordering that the separate awards to the child’s two minor brothers be held by the clerk ...

Tagged with: Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

Plaintiff table-saw manufacturer states an antitrust claim by alleging defendant manufacturers voted to engage in a group boycott of plaintiff’s safety technology in an effort to reduce their exposure in products liability suits; on rehearing, a split 4th Circuit panel ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge G. Steven Agee Products Liability

In this products liability suit arising from the death of a landscape employee who was killed when a 2007 Hustler Z zero-turn radius riding mower rolled over, a Harrisonburg U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Excel Industries, manufacturer ...

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

A woman who alleges she tripped over a white PVC pipe protruding from the ground as she walked from her car to the entrance of defendant volunteer fire department’s bingo game can try her premises liability suit alleging inoperative lights ...

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

In plaintiff’s suit alleging illness from eating contaminated oysters at defendant’s restaurant, the Roanoke U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s motion to voluntarily dismiss his suit, as litigation has been ongoing for two years, there are multiple third-party complaints up the ...

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

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court denies summary judgment to defendant Kroger store in a shopper’s suit alleging injury when she slipped and fell in a puddle on the floor as she approached a self-serve checkout station. Defendants argue vigorously that ...

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

A physician at a pain center may sue defendant drug store chain for defamation for allegedly telling patients the drug store would no longer fill the physician’s prescriptions because the physician prescribed too many pain pills and was “under investigation”; ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A woman who alleges injuries from a fall while seeking to avoid a panhandler near a Wal-Mart store cannot sue the store for negligence, says a Richmond U.S. District Court. Wal-Mart had no duty to protect plaintiff from the panhandler’s ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court declines to dismiss plaintiff inmate’s medical malpractice suit for failure to timely certify that he obtained a written expert opinion in compliance with Va. Code § 8.01-20.1, as defendant has shown no prejudice from the ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The estate of a woman who died during an instructional scuba dive can try its negligence suit against the diving instructor and diving school; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says a jury will have to determine whether the release signed ...

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