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The claimant, who was the owner of a company that provided maintenance services to commercial entities, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury with multi-lobe cerebral hemorrhage following a fall from a ladder. Other injuries included pelvic fractures, left clavicle fracture ...

Tagged with: Settlement Workers' Compensation Workers’ Comp

Plaintiff was driving a tractor-trailer southbound in the right lane on Interstate 95 in Richmond.  He was close to the end of his regular route that took him into Maryland and back. Defendant driver was driving a tractor-trailer that appeared ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Settlement

Plaintiff suffered a work-related injury while operating industrial equipment, which plaintiff alleged was defectively designed and negligently tested. Plaintiff asserted that the injury-causing event aggravated his pre-existing glenohumeral arthritis, which led to an arthroscopic debridement, partial shoulder replacement and total ...

Tagged with: Products Liability Settlement

On July 18, 2018, plaintiff brought her 3-month-old son to his pediatrician’s office as soon as it opened after he awoke that morning with a 103.9 degree fever and had refused feeding. The pediatrician noted that the baby’s fever was ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Settlement

The sexual assault occurred approximately 20 years ago when the victim, plaintiff Tori Nonaka, was 6 years old. She was staying overnight at the home of a woman who was a close friend of Nonaka’s mother. The woman’s husband, Lawrence ...

Tagged with: Settlement Tort

Plaintiff was T-boned when driving in Fairfax County when defendant attempted to leave a shopping center from a side street. Defendant did not see plaintiff’s vehicle and slammed into the passenger’s side of the vehicle. As a result of the ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Accident Settlement

Plaintiff, a woman in her mid-20s, was injured when she was burned while being prepared for a colposcopy after the birth of her child. Plaintiff had received concerning results from a Pap smear, which brought her back to the defendant ...

Tagged with: Mediation Medical Malpractice

Plaintiff was a 57-year-old man who was diagnosed with Gleason 6 prostate cancer.  He underwent a robotic radical prostatectomy with the da Vinci robot. During surgery, plaintiff was placed in the Trendelenburg lithotomy position, a head-down position similar to that ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Settlement

On July 25, 2016, 67-year-old plaintiff picked up his Polaris jet ski from a marina near Lake Anna where he had taken it for repairs. When he attempted to start the jet ski, it exploded. Unknown to plaintiff, the marina ...

Tagged with: Negligence Products Liability Settlement

Plaintiff was injured in a car accident when defendant crashed her vehicle into two stopped cars waiting at a red traffic light at midnight. Defendant failed to participate in discovery or appear for deposition or trial. Defendant’s counsel stipulated to ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Accident Verdict