Type of action: Medical malpractice Injuries alleged: Fetal death Court: Henrico County Circuit Court Case no.: CL19-6545 Name of judge or mediator: Judge John Marshall Date resolved: 4/28/2021 Demand: $3,000,000 Verdict or settlement: Verdict Amount: $3,000,000 plus interest from 4/24/2019 ...

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With elaborate preparations, Virginia courts are holding jury trials again, even in the midst of the pandemic. Henrico County was first, holding jury selection in a two-day drug case on Sept. 15. But Stafford County and the U.S. District Court ...

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Twitter is immune from plaintiff’s defamation suit under 47 U.S.C. § 230. Twitter’s motion to dismiss is granted. As an initial matter, the court rejects plaintiff’s argument that this is the second motion to dismiss before the court and thus ...

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On June 19, 2014, plaintiff underwent a bilateral tubal fulguration performed by the defendant OB-GYN. On Aug. 19, 2014, plaintiff returned to the defendant pregnant. The pregnancy ended in a miscarriage one month later. Following the miscarriage, plaintiff became pregnant ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Judge James L. Yoffy Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts

Where plaintiff claims that the Virginia defendants, an individual and a corporation, defamed him on Twitter and that defendant Twitter Inc. negligently allowed the posts to remain on its social media platform, Virginia is the proper venue for all claims. ...

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Plaintiff purchased from defendant an e-cigarette, a charger for the e-cigarette, and re-chargeable lithium-ion MXJO batteries. Plaintiff had the e-cigarette in his left pocket and a spare MXJO battery in this right pants pocket. The spare MXJO battery exploded like ...

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The Virginia Board of Pharmacy’s decision to approve Dharma Pharmaceuticals as a dispensary of CBD and THC-A oils was neither arbitrary nor capricious. A motion to dismiss New Age Care’s appeal of the administrative decision is granted. Ruling “The Court ...

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In September 2015, plaintiff was on a walk with her dog in her neighborhood. As she was going past her neighbor’s house on the sidewalk, the neighbor’s large dog, a 200-pound English Mastiff, was laying in the yard. There was ...

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During a delivery on May 16, 2003, the defendant, an obstetrician and gynecologist, encountered a shoulder dystocia. In response, the defendant performed various delivery maneuvers to safely deliver the plaintiff including the McRobert’s position, suprapubic pressure, Rubin’s, and delivery of ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Gary Hicks Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts

On May 27, 2015, Kimberli Vida, 50, was a back-seat passenger in an SUV driven by her husband when they were struck on East Ridge Road by an SUV driven by defendant, Sarah Farney, who pulled out from Freeman High ...

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