A doctor who allegedly had a contract to testify as a causation expert for a medmal plaintiff, but who told plaintiff’s lawyers two weeks before the scheduled trial that he found an expert radiologist’s underlying opinion “problematic” and that if ...

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A lot can go wrong in the whirlwind of activity just before a medical malpractice trial, but what happens when a doctor on your team suddenly announces he can no longer support a key element of your case? As a ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court dismisses appeals of 18 of petitioning father’s 19 motions to show cause filed in the JDR court over a six-week period alleging matters such as a failure to give notice of doctors’ appointments, a failure to ...

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Plaintiffs who allege defendant “agents and representatives” of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals came onto their prop­erty, seized their dog, carried her away and killed her have stated claims for trespass and for conversion, including a demand for ...

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In litigation arising from a boating accident in which a teenage girl’s leg was pulled into the boat’s propellers, plaintiff’s counsel acted improperly in conducting inspections of the boat, with the boat owner’s permission, prior to notifying representatives of the ...

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In litigation arising from a boating accident in which a teenage girl’s leg was pulled into the boat’s propellers, a Norfolk Circuit Court upholds a city’s claim of a criminal investigative privilege and sustains the city’s motion to quash a ...

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A screw-up over a screw that may have been used in a boat’s gear shift mechanism threatened to complicate a trial over liability for a 2011 boating accident. A Norfolk judge denied defense motions to dismiss a $30-million lawsuit based ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court dismisses a suit filed by a Norfolk City Jail inmate who alleges doctors at the jail refused to provide him with reasonable medical care, resulting in a brain injury, broken bones and disfigurement. Defendant sheriff admits ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court denies an incarcerated murder defendant’s motion to Set Aside Judgment for Fraud on the Court based on his allegation that the clerk’s office has lost the order book that would have recorded his indictments. An affidavit ...

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An easement granted by plaintiffs’ predecessor only gave VEPCO the right to install and improve “one line of poles” for transmitting electric power, and the Norfolk Circuit Court overrules VEPCO’s demurrer to plaintiffs’ challenge to VEPCO’s intent to apportion the ...

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