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In this medical malpractice case, a Norfolk Circuit Court denies plaintiff’s motion to compel defendant hospital to produce a four-page “Events & Causal Factors” Charting prepared by a nurse team leader to “identify any possible root causes and/or inappropriate action” ...

Tagged with: Judge Michelle J. Atkins Medical Malpractice Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The 4th Circuit upholds a $2 million award in the first jury verdict arising from multi-district litigation involving more than 70,000 cases against proprietors of transvaginal mesh medical devices; in a case tried in West Virginia federal court, the jury ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Roger L. Gregory Products Liability

A Pennsylvania plaintiff suing defendant hotel and contractors for injuries she suffered when a hotel light fixture fell and injured the infant granddaughter plaintiff was holding, physically injuring them both, may continue to seek mental anguish damages resulting from her ...

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

A plaintiff who alleges both medical malpractice and products liability claims in a physician’s off-label use of an FDA-approved medical device called Infuse® in plaintiff’s spinal fusion surgery can remand his suit back to state court, an Alexandria U.S. District ...

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

In an infant’s suit alleging defendant physician was negligent in failing to treat a mother’s chorioamnionitis when her membranes ruptured prematurely at 28 weeks in her pregnancy, and failed to timely perform a cesarean delivery, defendants may not exclude plaintiffs’ ...

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

In this products liability and negligence action arising out of an explosion at an automotive ball-bearing plant in Blacksburg, the Roanoke U.S. District Court denies defendants’ second set of motions for summary judgment, filed on remand from the 4th Circuit. ...

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

In this auto accident litigation, a Roanoke U.S. District Court orders plaintiff insurance companies to pay defendants $29,310 in attorney’s fees and expenses for defendants’ motions to compel. Plaintiffs have chosen not to respond to the fee request and have ...

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

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