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 ...

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Plaintiff, a 49-year-old man, presented for a left L3 transforaminal epidural steroid injection to be performed using CT fluoroscopic guidance. Approximately 60 seconds after the injection of Kenalog, plaintiff began to experience permanent paralysis. Subsequent studies revealed a spinal cord ...

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This case involved a 54-year-old male who was overweight and diabetic and who had a family history of heart disease, who presented to the emergency room at Mary Washington Hospital with a history of chest pain and shortness of breath. ...

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Lawyers on the losing end of jury verdicts in two birth injury malpractice cases – including one in Virginia – are backing a lawsuit against the publisher of what they contend is a misleading medical journal article that stacks the ...

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FREDERICKSBURG (AP) A judge on May 28 appointed a Fredericksburg attorney to determine the value of the 38 acres where former Gov. Doug Wilder wants to build the National Slavery Museum. Fredericksburg Circuit Judge Gordon Willis appointed Kevin Jones as ...

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An infant suffered a traumatic brain injury after his mother slipped and fell on the defendant’s property. As a result of the mild to moderate TBI, the child suffers from seizures, mild hemiparesis, one side visual neglect and social developmental ...

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This legal malpractice action arose out of an underlying personal injury action wherein the minor plaintiff (at the time of the motor vehicle collision) suffered facial lacerations and other injuries in a head-on motor vehicle collision. Defendant in the legal ...

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A radio station owned by the defendant set up a promotional tent in the parking lot of an electronics store to promote its grand opening. The tent was neither staked nor secured in any other fashion. The radio station broadcasts ...

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On Sept. 20, 2004, plaintiff went to the hospital in labor at approximately 37 weeks gestation. She was a gestational diabetic with a history of one prior uncomplicated vaginal delivery. Labor progressed without complication. Following delivery of the baby’s head, ...

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At least two Virginia circuit court clerks have dug in their heels to buck the requirement that they provide Social Security numbers before they are allowed to participate in the state’s debt set-off program. Other clerks are said to be ...

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