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Plaintiff is a 58-year-old woman with a long history of back and neck pain. On Oct. 13, 2012, plaintiff was rear-ended while driving her grandchildren to a roller skating rink in Culpeper. Two years prior to the collision, she had ...

Tagged with: Culpeper County Circuit Court Judge J. Martin Bass Personal Injury

Plaintiff was walking through a Chipotle parking lot toward the entrance when her foot “caught” on some raised asphalt that joined the curbing to the parking lot, causing her to fall. She landed on her outstretched hand and finger. There ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Premises Liability Spotsylvania Circuit Court

A mother of two was killed when the defendant collided head-on with her vehicle as he was trying to pass a tractor-trailer on Route 340 in Rockingham County. The accident occurred on a foggy morning. A witness, who was driving ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Rockingham County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

On Oct. 11, 2012, plaintiff was driving his motor vehicle near the intersection of Franconia Road and South Van Dorn Street in Fairfax County. As plaintiff entered the intersection, he was suddenly struck by defendant’s Kenworth truck. Defendant had entered ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Personal Injury

During the summer of 2013, the plaintiff, a retired registered nurse, was the passenger on the back of her friend’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle. They were taking a short ride in the Fredericksburg area on a 55 mph highway on a sunny ...

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

In August 2010, plaintiff, a 47-year-old financial analyst with the Department of Defense, saw the defendant gynecologist for longstanding pelvic pain due to uterine fibroids. A laparoscopic hysterectomy was planned. On Nov. 3, 2010, the defendant started the laparoscopic procedure ...

Tagged with: Fredericksburg Circuit Court Judge Gordon F. Willis Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts

In late 2012, the driver of a Ford Explorer was traveling southbound on Longhill Road in James City County when he was hit from behind by an off-duty Newport News police officer. The plaintiff’s Ford Explorer was totaled by the ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury

Both the plaintiff and defendant were federal government employees in June 2013. At that time, the defendant had been subject to an internal complaint by his supervisor, the plaintiff, due to aggressive behavior at the workplace. Shortly after the plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Frederick County Circuit Court Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Personal Injury

The plaintiff was riding his bicycle in a slight northeasterly direction across the southbound lanes of the 200 block of N. Birdneck Road in Virginia Beach, toward the Food Lion shopping center entrance, when his bicycle collided with the defendant’s ...

Tagged with: Judge William R. O'Brien Personal Injury Virginia Beach Circuit Court

The plaintiff was a 62-year-old man involved in a head-on collision in Fluvanna County. The defendant admitted liability. The plaintiff, who was retired at the time of the accident, suffered a severely comminuted grade II right open pilon fracture of ...

Tagged with: Fluvanna County Circuit Court Personal Injury