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A products liability suit arising from a fire in a 2001 Ford Windstar van that killed a three-year-old girl and alleges Ford failed to warn about the dangerous condition of “key-off dash area electrical fires,” is reinstated by the Supreme ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court sets aside a $212 million award, reduced to $12.35 million, in this suit alleging a Fredericksburg-area man suffered severe nerve damage from BOTOX® used to treat a hand tremor condition; the court says the combination ...

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

A plaintiff’s 2008 personal injury claim was properly exempted from his bankruptcy estate when he listed the claim as an asset in his Schedule B and then declared it as exempt property on his Schedule C, even though the bankruptcy ...

Tagged with: Judge Margaret P. Spencer Negligence Richmond Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Recognizing a split among Virginia circuit courts, an Abingdon U.S. District Court magistrate judge grants plaintiff’s motion to compel production of hospital training materials and incident reports in a lawsuit involving decedent’s fatal fall after his bed sensor was turned ...

Tagged with: Judge Pamela Meade Sargent Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Western District

In a prospective home buyer’s Alexandria U.S. District Court suit alleging injuries from a fall as she was descending a stairwell with a handrail that did not extend to the last three steps, plaintiff’s expert home inspector can testify even ...

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

A Fairfax Circuit Court says defendants are entitled to discover the factual basis for plaintiff’s claim of lost income and the documentary evidence to support it, in this wrongful death suit. Plaintiff alleges defendant convenience store owners were negligent in ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jonathan C. Thacher Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

The estate of an employee who died in an auto accident after being picked up by a coworker, and who sued the coworker and the employer, gets another chance to retry its case, as the Fairfax Circuit Court grants reconsideration ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge R. Terrence Ney Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

In plaintiff’s suit alleging severe and permanent injuries after she swerved in her 1995 Mazda Miata to avoid an object in the road and the vehicle turned over because the vehicle allegedly failed to provide “reasonable occupant protection in the ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Turk Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District

A Roanoke U.S. District Court says Virginia would recognize a post-sale duty to warn of defects, and declines to dismiss this claim filed by a plaintiff whose hands were badly injured when using an industrial heat processing system manufactured by ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Turk Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

A Richmond Circuit Court denies plaintiff’s motion to set aside as inadequate a jury verdict awarding $4,500 for bodily injuries, pain and inconvenience, in addition to $12,628 for medical expenses. The case was submitted to the jury on a special ...

Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Negligence Richmond Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts