ALEXANDRIA – The Virginia State Bar Council has approved increases in the caps on compensation payments to victims of dishonest lawyers. The higher caps, to take effect next summer, will be the first increases in payment limits in 15 years. ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund Virginia State Bar

NORFOLK – The governing board of the Virginia State Bar is taking it slow as it considers proposals to raise reimbursement limits for victims of crooked lawyers. The VSB Council voted this month for more study on increasing caps on ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund Virginia State Bar

The Virginia State Bar is considering proposals that include extending the current annual assessment on lawyers for the Client Protection Fund, in response to an actuarial study of the Fund. The VSB also is inviting comments on recommendations to increase ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund Virginia State Bar

ROANOKE – A plan to require insurance companies to notify clients of insurance claim payments made to their lawyers won unanimous approval from the Virginia State Bar council Oct. 19. The proposal had a tangled and contentious history. Approval came ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund General Assembly Payee Notification Supreme Court of Virginia News Virginia State Bar Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

Having just paid the second highest ever annual total for claims, the Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund is considering changes that would allow even larger payments to victims of dishonest lawyers. In the fiscal year ending June 30, the ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund Virginia State Bar

Legislation aimed at preventing large-scale attorney defalcation has been recommended by a Virginia State Bar task force. The payee notification bill approved in April by the VSB Payee Notification Task Force would have insurance companies notify personal injury claimants when ...

Tagged with: Bar Associations Clients' Protection Fund General Assembly Virginia State Bar

The Clients’ Protection Fund of the Virginia State Bar paid out almost $200,000 more last year than it received from the annual assessments paid by each active member. That development was as unexpected as it was unwelcome, since it came ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund Virginia State Bar

Former clients of disbarred Roanoke bankruptcy attorney Ann Marie Miller will receive an average of 20 cents on the dollar for their claims under a plan generally approved by Roanoke Circuit Judge Clifford Weckstein. Roanoke lawyer Chip Magee, the receiver ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Clients' Protection Fund Law Firms Lawyer Discipline Virginia State Bar

The Virginia State Bar asked Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. to carry its legislation, Senate Bill 511, that would have required insurance companies to notify the clients of attorneys when the insurers send the attorneys a check to settle a ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund General Assembly Virginia State Bar Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. has asked the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association to back off on payee notification legislation in this session of the General Assembly. Hassell told VSB Executive Director Karen A. Gould ...

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund General Assembly Payee Notification Supreme Court of Virginia Virginia State Bar Virginia Trial Lawyers Association