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A Newport News U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s motion to remand to state court her suit alleging injuries from a slip-and-fall on ice and water at Bottom Dollar Food Store #2924, because one of the defendants did not file a ...

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

Plaintiffs suing for damages from mold infestation in the house they occupied cannot satisfy their obligation to disclose reports from their treating physician witnesses just by sending defendants copies of medical records, but a Charlottesville U.S. District Court will allow ...

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

A Roanoke County Circuit Court says a landowner who hired an independent contractor to dig a hole in one lane of a four-lane highway (with the required permit) for installation of a new water line, is not liable for contribution ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert P. Doherty Jr. Negligence Roanoke County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A woman injured in a single-car accident does not have uninsured motorist coverage under her mother’s insurance policy because she has not proved she is a resident of her mother’s household, as the family members who lived with the mother ...

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

A man who allegedly slipped on a smashed piece of fruit in defendant grocery store’s produce section, and suffered a knee injury that required reconstructive surgery, has his negligence suit heard by a jury but dismissed by a magistrate judge ...

Tagged with: Judge F. Bradford Stillman Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although the Norfolk U.S. District Court has maritime jurisdiction over plaintiff’s suit claiming he was severely injured when a defendant’s motorboat crossed a tow line, causing plaintiff to be ejected from an inner tube being pulled by another defendant’s boat, ...

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

A man who is disabled from multiple sclerosis and who alleges injuries from use of defendant’s folding shower chair has stated a claim for breach of an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose under Va. Code § 8.2-315, ...

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

A defendant who rented out her mountain cabin to a New Jersey couple celebrating their wedding anniversary wins summary judgment in the husband’s suit alleging injuries from a hammock at the cabin that broke when he sat on it; the ...

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

Although a driver had an ongoing personal relationship with his ex-wife, who owned the car he had taken to repair but wrecked, injuring his passenger brother, the driver did not have express or implied permission to take the car out ...

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

In this suit by the estate of a man who allegedly died from mesothelioma contracted from asbestos exposure after he worked on construction of the U.S. Navy submarine Lewis & Clark in 1965, a Newport News Circuit Court dismisses plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Judge Timothy S. Fisher Newport News Circuit Court Products Liability Virginia Circuit Courts