A family trust that owns five single-family homes in Virginia Beach was an undisclosed principal to a contract with first, one realty company and then its corporate successor, for maintenance of the properties, and the trust, by plaintiff, its agent, ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court grants an auto-accident plaintiff’s motion to compel her UIM carrier to produce documents from its claims file and reserves a ruling on plaintiff’s motion for damages for the carrier’s alleged lack of good faith under Va. ...

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Plaintiff was a passenger in a car struck by the defendant’s van as it pulled out of a gas station near Military Circle Mall in Norfolk. Plaintiff claimed to have felt a pop in her left shoulder during the accident. ...

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In the wake of plaintiff Dragas Management Corporation’s $4 million default judgment against defendant Taishan Gypsum Company for damages incurred in the remediation of homes built with defective Chinese drywall, the Norfolk Circuit Court grants plaintiff’s show cause motion pursuant ...

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A home health agency that provided care for a mentally disabled autistic adult who suffered second degree burns does not have coverage under its general and professional liability policy under an exclusion requiring timely notice of a possible claim, says ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court says plaintiff purchaser of a single-family residence may sue defendant real estate agent for the seller and her own buyer’s agent for failure to disclose known material adverse facts pertaining to the physical condition of the ...

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A homebuyer who discovered rotten support beams and a cracked foundation in her house four years after purchase can sue her own agent and the seller’s agent under the Real Estate Brokers Act, a Norfolk Circuit judge has ruled. The ...

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Plaintiff sustained a mild traumatic brain injury in an automobile collision. Defendant admitted liability and the case was tried on damages only. The plaintiff had irritability and balance problems post-accident, which her expert physician opined was permanent. The defense expert ...

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In this action filed by the Virginia Department of Human Services, the Norfolk Circuit Court says the lawyer for respondent and her court-appointed guardian ad litem should decide which of them will be permitted to cross-examine the department’s witnesses and ...

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If this were a case of first impression, a Norfolk Circuit Court would agree with plaintiff, a railroad brakeman, that he can sue under FELA for injuries he suffered during the process of loading coal onto an ocean-going vessel at ...

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