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A district court erred in dismissing negligence suits filed by U.S. Servicemembers who allege injuries from defendant private contractors’ management of waste disposal in Iraq and Afghanistan by using open air burn pits with no safety controls and by failing ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Henry F. Floyd Negligence

In a personal injury case against a drunken driver that led to jury awards of $100,000 each in punitive damages for the two plaintiffs, in addition to $5,600 in compensatory damages for one plaintiff and $14,000 in compensatory damages for ...

Tagged with: Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

An employee of a security subcontractor who was injured while working on a winery project is a statutory employee of the general contractor and statutory co-employee of two defendant subcontractors, and the Loudoun County Circuit Court says his negligence action ...

Tagged with: Judge Burke McCahill Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

In this case involving injury to a maintenance worker in a bucket truck, who was replacing a traffic signal over an open traffic lane while a coworker acted as a groundsman “lookout,” the district court erred in holding that plaintiff ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Henry F. Floyd Negligence

A nonprofit corporation that owns a national historic landmark theater in Richmond with a 1928 Wurlitzer theater pipe organ does not have charitable immunity from a personal injury suit filed by a volunteer who was injured when he fell while ...

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

A man injured while working aboard a barge was a land-based worker who was not subjected to any special hazards or disadvantages from the “perils of the sea,” and a Norfolk Circuit Court says he was a longshoreman and not ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles E. Poston Negligence Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Two physicians employed by a staffing agency and working under contract with a veterans hospital were independent contractors, not government employees, and a plaintiff cannot sue the government under the FTCA for the doctors’ alleged medical malpractice in performing his ...

Tagged with: Judge Samuel G. Wilson Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Western District

A divided 4th Circuit panel reverses a $10.8 million insurance judgment in favor of a Maryland chemical company, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals Ltd., who sued for “contingent business interruption” coverage following a massive 2008 explosion at a natural gas production facility ...

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

Abercrombie & Fitch must defend a premises liability suit filed by a young female customer who was sexually assaulted in a dressing room with a broken lock minutes after two store employees saw, then lost sight of, a man who ...

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

A skydiver who was injured when the aircraft from which he jumped struck his parachute in midair does not have coverage for his injuries from an insurance policy issued to Skydive Factory, as the policy includes an endorsement that excludes ...

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