On Sept. 13, 2007, the plaintiff had picked up her 18-year-old son from school and was driving home when she stopped for a red traffic signal on Miles Avenue at Winston Churchill Drive in Hopewell. As the defendant, driving a ...

Tagged with: Hopewell Circuit Court Judge Diane M. Strickland Negligence Settlement

On May 26, 2017, plaintiff was driving within the City of Hopewell when his vehicle was struck by a contractor from California who ran a stop sign. Initially the defendant claimed the stop sign was obscured by low-hanging tree limbs ...

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

Plaintiff, a retiree, hit his head on the driver’s side window when he was struck by a careless commercial driver who lost control of his truck. The tractor-trailer sideswiped plaintiff’s vehicle, causing the plaintiff’s minivan to spin several times before ...

Tagged with: Hopewell Circuit Court Judge Michael C. Allen Personal Injury Settlement

In this litigation arising from a 2012 industrial accident in which a hired con­tractor was injured by exposure to am­monia vapors, a Hopewell Circuit Court says Virginia law on indemnification will apply, as the New Jersey law selected by the ...

Tagged with: Hopewell Circuit Court Judge W. Allan Sharrett Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

A Hopewell Circuit Court grants petitioner’s motion for summary judgment to prevent the city council from going into closed sessions to discuss elections to the position of mayor and vice mayor. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Va. Code ...

Tagged with: Administrative Hopewell Circuit Court Judge W. Allan Sharrett Virginia Circuit Courts

Although plaintiff’s insurance carrier mistakenly offered underinsured motorist coverage policy limits, the carrier nevertheless is bound by its offer of $25,000 UIM policy limits, in addition to the $100,000 liability coverage offered by defendant in the underlying auto accident case, ...

Tagged with: Hopewell Circuit Court Judge Nathan C. Lee Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts

An insurance carrier must pay its UIM policy limits even though an auto-accident plaintiff waited nearly two years to formally accept the settlement and the carrier might have avoided liability altogether. For plaintiff William Calvert, who alleged $75,000 in medical ...

Tagged with: Hopewell Circuit Court Insurance Judge Nathan C. Lee Personal Injury

Although litigation was “reasonably foreseeable” after plaintiff, a railroad conductor, allegedly fell from a railcar when the grab iron he was holding broke, that does not mean defendant railroad can refuse to provide documents to plaintiff conductor, including its initial ...

Tagged with: Hopewell Circuit Court Judge W. Allan Sharrett Negligence Virginia Circuit Courts