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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

A Norfolk U.S. District Court grants defendant janitorial service’s motion to dismiss a bank employee’s negligence suit alleging personal injury from her fall near a trash can in the lobby where she allegedly slipped on a greasy spot on the ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although plaintiff received a $2,250 payment in 2008 for his injuries from a 1996 auto accident after the defendant driver’s employer, Builders Transport, was discharged in bankruptcy, plaintiff still may pursue a claim in order to litigate his own uninsured/underinsured ...

Tagged with: Hanover County Circuit Court Insurance Judge J. Overton Harris Virginia Circuit Courts

In a woman’s suit to recover for personal injuries from a pit bull attack in 2002, the Supreme Court of Virginia says that because of “extenuating circumstances” involving delay in discovering who owned the dogs and the existence of an ...

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

A woman who alleges injury while using a Segway Personal Transport provided by defendant tour company may pursue her products liability claim against the tour company and the defendant manufacturer, but the Richmond Circuit Court dismisses her additional warranty, fraud ...

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

In this personal injury litigation after a 2005 auto accident, with multiple complaints filed by plaintiff passenger and the intervening death of defendant driver, a Fairfax Circuit Court says plaintiff’s complaint filed in 2010 is time-barred. On Oct. 23, 2005, ...

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

Plaintiff trusts who are suing defendant CPA for $25 million for allegedly providing “negligent tax advice, preparation of tax returns and relating accounting services” over a 12-year period are claiming accounting malpractice, and a Martinsville Circuit Court says accounting malpractice, ...

Tagged with: Judge G. Carter Greer Martinsville Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

A Richmond Circuit Court says defendant doctor should not have terminated a deposition because he objected to a med-mal plaintiff’s questions about information contained in a medical periodical related to the subject surgical procedure, but the court will hold off ...

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