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In these consolidated wrongful death actions alleging defective design of defendant Honeywell International’s autopilot system, the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a defense verdict because the trial court erred in admitting an investigative report as a “learned treatise,” allowing the ...

Tagged with: Justice William C. Mims Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

Although stacks of lumber partially obscured a view of railroad tracks at a private crossing, a dump truck driver was familiar with the tracks and failed to take reasonable care when he slowly approached the tracks, looking straight ahead, and ...

Tagged with: Justice Cynthia D. Kinser Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

In this medical malpractice case, a Hampton Circuit Court orders defendant hospital to provide its Policies and Procedures Manual, as well as the requested Audit Trail, including metadata. Many Virginia circuit courts have ruled on this issue within the last ...

Tagged with: Hampton Circuit Court Judge Christopher W. Hutton Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

In a dispute between the two sole shareholders of a Hampton marina with a boat owner, whose husband was injured while leaving his boat, and who allegedly failed to comply with a Slip Lease Agreement requiring boat owners to obtain ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In addition to the judgment won by plaintiffs against the Republic of Sudan under the Death on the High Seas Act, for the deaths of American service members in the 2000 Al Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole, the Norfolk ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert G. Doumar Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff’s bare-bones products liability complaint alleging injuries caused by a defective folding cane states a claim for breach of an express warranty under Virginia law, but the Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s claims for negligent design, failure to ...

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

A woman injured in a car accident who is suing defendants for medical malpractice in failing to immobilize her unstable spinal fracture and ordering physical therapy without performing CT scans or film studies, may use expert testimony from a board-certified ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas J. Wilson IV Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Western District

Although supermarket video surveillance footage shows plaintiff stepped over a black hose as he entered the store, he exited in a slightly different direction and the view was obscured as he exited the store until after he fell, and the ...

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

An insurance company has a duty to defend tort and defamation claims filed against the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity under a “Businessowners Policy,” in a suit alleging damage from two articles posted in FCGPI’s “Watchdog.org” website; an ...

Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A private security company that rehired a guard it had fired and put on its no-hire list, who conspired with others to burn houses in a Maryland development that had been purchased by minority families, is not liable for the ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry F. Floyd Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District