Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

A Norfolk Circuit Court consolidated for a liability trial suits filed by six employees of the Christian Broadcasting Network who allege injuries from their exposure to chemicals used by defendant Baker Roofing Company during roofing repairs on the building where ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Louis Allen Sherman Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where a farm equipment company and a tractor company had to pay a jury award of $165,000 to a man who was injured due to an allegedly defective hay bale spear, the farm equipment company may sue Southern Farm Supply ...

Tagged with: Judge Ivan D. Davis Products Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s report and dismisses negligence claims by three female plaintiffs who allege they were sexually assaulted by a Busch Entertainment employee on Aug. 26, 2008, while the employee was operating the Malibu ...

Tagged with: Judge Rebecca Beach Smith Judge Tommy E. Miller Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A $1.75 million verdict for a 72-year-old farmer who alleged severe injuries when his disc mower exploded and injected burning hydraulic fluid into his hand, is reversed by the Supreme Court of Virginia because the trial court erred in admitting ...

Tagged with: Justice Donald W. Lemons Products Liability Supreme Court of Virginia

In a case involving fire on an apartment building’s exterior balcony, the Supreme Court of Virginia concludes that exterior sidewall sprinkler heads are “equipment” under Virginia’s statute of repose, Va. Code § 8.01-250, and reverses the circuit court judgment holding ...

Tagged with: Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Products Liability Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia affirms a judgment for a contractor in his malicious prosecution action against owners of a commercial building who hired the contractor for renovations of the building and then complained to the sheriff’s office about construction ...

Tagged with: Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. Supreme Court of Virginia Tort

A snow tubing ride operated by Great Eastern at the Massanutten Resort is an “amusement device” under the Virginia Amusement Device Regulations, and the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses the contrary trial court decision and remands a personal injury suit ...

Tagged with: Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

A wrongful death action brought by one of two co-administrators is not time-barred when the second co-administrator is joined as a plaintiff after expiration of the statute of limitations, and the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses the trial court’s dismissal ...

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

A man who claims injuries when his forklift tipped over because defendant, an Ohio machine shop, allegedly mislabeled a box as weighing 2,800 pounds when in fact it weighed 4,144 pounds, cannot sue the company in Norfolk Circuit Court because ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Karen J. Burrell Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A minor who suffered a skull fracture and permanent hearing loss from an auto accident cannot stack UM/UIM coverage from his parents’ auto liability policy on two family vehicles, and a Charlottesville U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant ...

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