Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

In this wrongful death case, a Charlottesville Circuit Court finds plaintiff Isaiah Lester’s jury award of $6,227,000 as the beneficiary of his wife’s estate grossly disproportionate to the injuries actually suffered, and the court will remit $4,127,000, leaving him with ...

Tagged with: Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

Medical interns and residents do not automatically have sovereign immunity from med-mal claims, but in this suit alleging a pediatric cardiology patient died from improper medication, a board-certified pediatrician, who took the infant’s medical history and who was six weeks ...

Tagged with: Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire Medical Malpractice Virginia Circuit Courts

The 4th Circuit affirms dismissal of a U.S. Marine’s negligence action against a government contractor for his severe injuries from electrocution while serving on an American military base in Iraq, on the basis that an adjudication of the Marine’s claim ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert B. King Negligence

A woman who alleges she was injured while operating a saddle stitching machine that a Roanoke company obtained from a Japanese manufacturer through its North American distributor cannot sue the Japanese company in Roanoke City Circuit Court; the manufacturer had ...

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

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