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A Charlottesville U.S. District Court says the girlfriend of a crew chief for a concrete company, who had an accident while driving a company car after drinking in a bar, may be able to show she had a good faith ...

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

A plaintiff who alleges injuries from two separate motor vehicle accidents in 2005, eight months apart, and who settled her claim from the first accident in 2007 for $35,000, may only submit to a jury in her lawsuit arising from ...

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

A Fairfax Circuit Court says it has no statutory or equitable authority to reduce a workers’ comp carrier’s $50,479 statutory lien on a settlement by a plaintiff of a work-related automobile accident claim. Plaintiff pursued a workers’ comp claim against ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Bruce D. White Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

Owners of a tour bus company, who were injured in an accident with a drunken driver as they left a tour bus in a rental car after the death of a family member, are not entitled to $5 million in ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Samuel G. Wilson U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who alleges injury from a fall at the Air Force Memorial allegedly caused by workers affiliated with defendant construction companies who interrupted the power supply so that the parking lot lighting went out, has not pleaded a claim ...

Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a customer’s suit for brain injuries she allegedly suffered when she walked through a narrow corridor and her forehead suddenly struck the corner of a metal shelf, because she was focusing on a ladder in the aisle, an Alexandria ...

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

A retail store wins summary judgment in a customer’s suit for brain injuries she allegedly suffered when she walked through a narrow corridor and her forehead suddenly struck the corner of a metal shelf, because she was focusing on a ...

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

A customer cannot survive summary judgment in his slip-and-fall suit against Wal-Mart with a late proffer of a purported conversation among store employees about the wet spot on the floor where he slipped and was briefly knocked unconscious; the Richmond ...

Tagged with: Judge Dennis Dohnal Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Roanoke judge sitting in Russell County Circuit Court says a former clerk of that court cannot sue a newspaper for defamation for including in a story about her son, a lawyer who was disciplined by the Virginia State Bar, ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert P. Doherty Jr. Russell County Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

Homeowners who allege a pest control company and its unlicensed technician caused them personal injury and economic harm by applying a pesticide not meant for residential use, can sue for negligence and negligence per se, but not for willful and ...

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