A mother gets another chance to prove her move to Pennsylvania was good for her seven-year-old son, after the Virginia Court of Appeals reversed a custody change to the father. The trial court applied the wrong legal standard when it ...

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On March 16, 2006, plaintiff underwent a total thyroidectomy and neck dissection to remove metastatic thyroid cancer that fully involved the thyroid gland and many lymph nodes in her neck. Defendant, an otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, performed the ...

Tagged with: Judge John R. Prosser Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Winchester Circuit Court

On Oct. 17, 2006, plaintiff’s decedent, a 78-year-old, was admitted to the hospital and developed a Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection while hospitalized. Despite antibiotics, the patient continued to have positive cultures for MRSA and was transferred to Winchester Medical ...

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Defendant doctor performed a laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (“LAVH”) on the plaintiff, then 39 years old, in 2007. Plaintiff had suffered from menorrhagia, or heavy menstrual cycles. At the time of the surgery the plaintiff was earning approximately $45,000 per ...

Tagged with: Judge John R. Prosser Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Winchester Circuit Court