Plaintiff alleges that the defendant, a family practice physician, failed to properly and timely diagnose a goiter, and failed to timely refer him to a surgeon. He also alleges that the defendant misdiagnosed him with COPD and incorrectly treated him ...

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A Virginia Beach lawyer charged with misconduct by the Virginia State Bar has been exonerated by the VSB’s disciplinary board. Edward F. Halloran submitted a group of medical bills for two different personal injury claims for a single client, only ...

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Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority condemned a 50,000 square foot parcel of land at the corner of Killam and 39th Street in Norfolk, originally offering the property owner $2,080,000 as just compensation for the property. The land acquired by the ...

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The Norfolk Circuit Court upholds a commissioner’s finding that a beneficiary’s distribution from an estate will be reduced because of her substantial interference with efficient administration of the estate. Cleo Eppes died on March 18, 2007, and left two surviving ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court says after researching the authority of a circuit court judge to reduce the amounts of liens, including those claimed by public hospitals, and to apportion recovery, including a negotiated settlement, between a plaintiff, the plaintiff’s attorney, ...

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The parties are granted a no-fault divorce from their 11-year marriage, in which husband pursued his career as a military officer while wife reared their child and maintained the home, and the Norfolk Circuit Court awards wife, who is pursuing ...

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A personal trainer who said she lost her job because of statements made by the husband of a woman she allegedly pursued romantically can’t sue him. The husband was protected from a defamation claim because his complaints about his wife’s ...

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In this Norfolk Circuit Court litigation alleging a health club personal trainer pursued a club member’s wife for a romantic relationship and the husband retaliated with complaints to the club and school where the trainer worked and the couple’s child ...

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Petitioners challenging a city’s tax assessment of two properties, including an office building, did not present sufficient evidence to establish the fair market value of the office building, but simply advanced a theory of highest and best use of the ...

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A post-menopausal 54-year-old plaintiff was advised by her OB/GYN physician that a mass on her right ovary might be cancerous and that removal of the mass through a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was required. The physician performed the procedure utilizing the ...

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