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This lawsuit was brought by a patient who presented to the emergency department at Sentara Obici on April 28, 2013, after tripping and falling face first on brick stairs, without anything to brace her fall. A CT Scan was ordered ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Norfolk Circuit Court

Plaintiff driver was hit from the rear with minimal property damage. She suffered injuries to her back and a concussion. Plaintiff did office work and had resulting problems with executive functioning and short-term memory. Plaintiff had prior similar problems but ...

Tagged with: Chesapeake Circuit Court Judge Wilford Taylor Jr. Personal Injury Settlement

This was a T-bone motor vehicle collision in which the plaintiff was the front-seat passenger and suffered various injuries, including anosmia, a mild-traumatic brain injury and a neuroma to her hip. Only the hip injury and some soft tissue strains ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Richmond Circuit Court

On Aug. 19, 2014, the plaintiff was traveling southbound on South Boston Road in Fluvanna County, proceeding through the intersection with Slice Road. The defendant was traveling northbound on South Boston Road, made a left turn onto Slice Road, and ...

Tagged with: Fluvanna County Circuit Court Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. Personal Injury Verdict

Plaintiff’s decedent, a 60-year-old divorced man survived by his adult daughter, was fatally injured in an auto collision on one of the many Tidewater bridge crossings. Decedent, driving an old model sedan with a rear-mounted gas tank, was stopped for ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert S. Brewbaker Jr. Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

Plaintiff was a 54-year-old woman who saw defendant podiatrist for intractable foot pain. Defendant diagnosed a neuroma (a benign condition) and scheduled surgery to remove. On the morning of surgery, a nurse noted discoloration of the toes, swelling, and white ...

Tagged with: Fredericksburg Circuit Court Judge Patricia Kelly Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts

Plaintiff, Multi Textiles Inc. (“Multi Textiles”), is an importer, wholesaler, and distributor of textiles. For over 30 years, Multi Textiles supplied defendant, Tidewater Area Central Laundry, Inc. d/b/a Share Hospital Services (“SHS”), a cooperative laundry servicing multiple hospitals in the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge William S. Moore Portsmouth Circuit Court Verdict

Plaintiff was rear-ended on I-495 West in Alexandria just after 3 a.m. He drove himself to Reston Hospital Center for back pain and swelling. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he received follow-up care at the VA and was diagnosed ...

Tagged with: Alexandria Circuit Court Auto Accident Verdict

The case involved a 33-year-old woman who underwent a lymph node biopsy in August 2011. During the procedure, the defendant ENT doctor transected the plaintiff’s spinal accessory nerve, causing permanent atrophy and paralysis of the trapezius muscle with significant pain, ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Thomas P. Mann Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts

Plaintiff was awarded total disability from the Railroad Retirement Board in 1998 for degenerative spine disease weakness, pain of his right shoulder and gout. Plaintiff entered the defendants’ hardware store from a public entrance and slipped and fell on a ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Negligence Settlement U.S. District Court - Eastern District