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On Oct. 5, 2012, the decedent was working as a pipefitter at a paper manufacturing plant in Southeast Virginia. The project included the conversion of the plant from a paper manufacturing plant to a tissue mill. The owner of the ...

Tagged with: Judge Pamela S. Baskervill Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

When the plaintiff was 13 years old, she went to see her dentist about some stubborn baby teeth. The dentist informed her that the teeth would not exfoliate on their own and recommended extraction by an oral surgeon. The dentist’s ...

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Plaintiff was a salesperson from West Virginia visiting Richmond for a business meeting when she claimed her suitcase became entangled with the panel of an escalator, jerking the suitcase in her left hand and tearing her rotator cuff. Liability was ...

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Plaintiff, a 33-year-old female, presented to a hospital emergency department with complaints of left-sided leg and hip pain following a fall. She was also experiencing nausea and vomiting. She suffered longstanding neck and back pain from a prior automobile accident ...

Tagged with: Judge B. Waugh Crigler Medical Malpractice Settlement

Plaintiff, a 63-year-old male professional, was referred by his general dentist to an oral specialist to assess and treat an oral lesion with an appearance consistent with potential cancer. The oral specialist assumed that the oral lesion was not cancerous ...

Tagged with: Dental Malpractice Judge Joanna Fitzpatrick Million-Dollar Settlements

Involuntarily committed patient at Central State Hospital denied recommended and needed medical care (Dialectal Behavioral Therapy a.k.a. “DBT”) for three years and subjected to beatings over several weeks, at hands of another, much larger, patient, who attacked plaintiff at the ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District Verdict

Plaintiff, 64, underwent elective sigmoid colectomy surgery performed by a general surgeon on Feb. 23, 2015, to correct diverticula and a fistula track that had developed between his cecum and bladder causing frequent infections. The surgery was uneventful and an ...

Tagged with: Judge Beverly W. Snukals Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court

On Jan. 3, 2013, the defendant oral surgeon undertook to perform an extraction of an impacted first molar, along with remaining wisdom teeth. At age 32, the patient was already old for the procedure, and was asymptomatic, but he had ...

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On April 4, 2016, the plaintiff, 31, was rear-ended by the defendant, Dwayne Newman, in Westmoreland County. At the time of the collision, Newman was driving a trash transport vehicle for Local Services LLC. The impact caused the plaintiff’s knee ...

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On July 28, 2017, the plaintiff was a 17-year-old rising high school senior who was driving a Saturn in the right lane on Interstate 81 near Staunton when a tractor-trailer merged into the back of her car, causing it to ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Personal Injury U.S. District Court - Western District Verdict