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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

A woman suing Wyeth on allegations that its hormone replacement therapy drug, Prempro, caused or aggravated her breast cancer, cannot proceed on a claim that Wyeth had a duty to conduct additional tests or studies of the drug, says an ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Products Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a Fairfax Circuit Court struck testimony by plaintiff’s expert about her alleged spinal fractures that resulted from a 2005 traffic accident, the court declines to award defendants over $16,000 in defense expert fees because plaintiff took her first nonsuit ...

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

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies reconsideration of its decision granting summary judgment to defendant healthcare providers in plaintiff’s suit alleging defendants twice diagnosed her with genital warts when in fact she had genital cancer. Earlier, the court held that ...

Tagged with: Judge James R. Spencer Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The plaintiff is a 53-year-old female accountant who sustained severe injuries to her right eye. She underwent a superficial keratectomy or excision of a portion of the cornea approximately two months after the injury. A few weeks later, the plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury

A Roanoke City Circuit Court denies summary judgment to defendant city in this suit by a mother who fell and was injured as she was attempting to prevent her child from tripping over the alleged six-inch gap in a city ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Negligence Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts