A plaintiff in a malicious prosecution case with a demand for punitive damages is entitled to discovery of the defendant’s net worth, a Virginia circuit judge has ruled. A defendant’s assets can be used as both a sword and shield ...

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Where the commonwealth billed construction companies and others more than $7 million for flooding damages resulting from a ruptured water line, the commonwealth comptroller’s suit under the Virginia Debt Collection Act to recover damages, interest, attorney’s fees and costs is ...

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Where a federal jury determined that plaintiff knowingly violated the False Claims Act despite her argument that she relied on the advice of counsel in good faith, plaintiff is collaterally estopped from suing the law firm for malpractice in state ...

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A Richmond judge has blocked a lawsuit accusing the LeClairRyan law firm of malpractice in giving advice to the head of the now-defunct Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc. Former HDL Chief Executive Officer Tonya Mallory contended the firm’s bad advice on ...

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After tripping and injuring herself on her way out of a commercial building, a plaintiff won a $60,000 verdict against the building’s owner. The jury found that the step was in an unsafe condition that the owner should have known ...

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A woman injured in a fall as she left a Richmond law firm has won a $60,000 jury verdict against the owner of the building in the city’s historic Shockoe Slip. Even though a judge blocked the plaintiff from use ...

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In this wrongful death action filed by the estate of man who died on the job during a project converting a paper man­ufacturing plant into a tissue manufac­turing plant, the Richmond Circuit Court denies pleas in bar filed by three ...

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Five candidates for the U.S. district court judgeship to be vacated by Judge James R. Spencer of Richmond when he takes senior status in March have been rated as “highly qualified” by the Virginia State Bar’s Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee. ...

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Plaintiff was 54 years old when he first presented to defendant otolaryngologist in November 2003 for symptoms of occasional difficulty swallowing and choking and complaints of spitting out undigested food due to a Zenker’s diverticulum (“ZD”). Defendant repaired the diverticulum ...

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A Richmond Circuit judge has dismissed a second round of indictments against a man accused of robbery and use of a firearm. The commonwealth had nol prossed the charges earlier, based on a belief that a jury panel was biased ...

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