Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

Plaintiff, age 54, was having flu-like and sinus symptoms, with cough, fever, and headache. He sought help from his primary care provider who diagnosed a sinus infection and prescribed an antibiotic. The next day, the plaintiff felt worse and decided ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements

On Oct. 17, 2013, the defendant was driving a van through a parking lot in Norfolk. Defendant traveled in the wrong direction against the angled parking spaces and attempted to make a severe turn into a space. When defendant backed ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury

This case was a re-trial from a jury that hung 5-1 in the plaintiff’s favor. Plaintiff was a single mother and teacher who had a double mastectomy for unilateral breast cancer. She subsequently underwent breast reconstruction, which required multiple surgeries. ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Smith Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts

Plaintiff was loading machinery on a truck with a forklift. He was required to stand on top of the machinery to maneuver it. When he did, it is alleged (but contested) that the defendant released the forklift tines, causing plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Hampton Circuit Court Personal Injury

Plaintiff was traveling on Interstate 64 East after work at a dam project when he was rear-ended by a large work truck operated by the defendant, who was on-the-job with a sign company. Plaintiff’s work pick-up was significantly damaged with ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Virginia Beach Circuit Court

Plaintiff was employed from May 2010 to Aug. 29, 2012, as a support staff and as instructor of electronics at one of the defendant’s private school called Shenandoah Academy. The school, located in Harrisonburg, provided educational services to elementary through ...

Tagged with: Employment Federal Courts Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon

The decedent presented to a local hospital for a screening mammogram on Oct. 28, 2008. The defendant radiologist reviewed the current year’s mammogram and noted an area of asymmetry in the upper outer quadrant of the left breast. He compared ...

Tagged with: Halifax County Circuit Court Judge David B. Carson Medical Malpractice

On Jan. 17, 2014, at about 7:00 a.m., the defendant was operating a school bus owned by the Virginia Beach School Board. Defendant, with a busload of students, was traveling on Upton Drive in Virginia Beach, intending to make a ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Virginia Beach Circuit Court

Plaintiff alleged that the decedent suffered a slow bleed beginning shortly after cardiac bypass surgery, that nurses failed to appreciate same over the course of 10 hours, and that the decedent suffered cardiac arrest and brain injury as a result. ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Winchester Circuit Court Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s decedent was admitted to the Richmond Veterans Affairs Hospital on Sept. 14, 2012, for a skin laceration after scraping his leg. He had a history of strokes and myocardial infarctions, was on Coumadin and was a dialysis patient. While ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death