A federal jury has decided former Virginia Beach lawyer Brian Gay stole about $400,000 from the estate of a deceased client. After Monday’s guilty verdict on nine counts, Norfolk U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson revoked Gay’s bond. The Virginian-Pilot ...

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Bank of America has reached a deal to end a lawsuit by scores of investors who claimed they lost millions purchasing overvalued Carolina waterfront property. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The deal essentially ends a federal lawsuit ...

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A former Maryland lawyer implicated in a Washington-area insurance fraud investigation was sentenced Friday to seven months in prison for submitting faked medical records to bolster his own personal injury claim. A. Ryan Lahuti also was ordered to reimburse GEICO ...

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Saying the motive appeared to be “pure greed,” a federal prosecutor recommends at least a year and a half behind bars for a former Maryland lawyer who admitted padding his own personal injury claim with phony medical records. Ryan Lahuti ...

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Lawyers and insurance companies are being careful as they pick through the wreckage of the law practice left behind by disbarred Maryland lawyer A. Ryan Lahuti. Lahuti has been convicted in Virginia for his role in an insurance fraud scam. ...

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A Northern Virginia family moved into an apartment in Fairfax in 2009 that they claim was so infested with bedbugs that they had to move out just a few months later. They just learned they can sue their landlord for ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Fairfax County Circuit Court Fraud Judge R. Terrence Ney

Employers trying to trace the electronic trails of defecting employees may have a better chance to recover damages under a federal computer fraud statute, in the wake of a ruling in a new trade secrets case. The case involves a ...

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“Claim an injury and get you some money.” That was the advice from an investigator for a personal injury lawyer now facing up to 20 years in prison for insurance fraud in Virginia, according to federal authorities. The FBI claims ...

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Plaintiff homeowners refinanced their pre-existing mortgage in 2007 with a new loan from defendant lender. Plaintiffs alleged that they requested a new mortgage without mortgage insurance and were promised orally and in writing that the new loan would not have ...

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A Virginia Beach law firm is the alleged victim of more than $500,000 in thefts by its former bookkeeper. Police say a former employee of Bennett and Zydron PC, Diana L. Farmer-Forston, is accused of depositing forged checks into her ...

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