A Richmond federal court cut a whistleblower’s jury award of nearly $1 million by reducing compensatory damage awards of $178,500 against each of two corporate officers to $50,000 each. Plaintiff Andrea Gail Jones notified the court on Nov. 7 that ...

Tagged with: Employment Federal Courts Judge Robert E. Payne

A Richmond U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s recommendation to award plaintiff insurance company $1.6 million in its suit against defendant construction company for losses the insurance company sustained when it made payments under its surety bonds. This dispute ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge M. Hannah Lauck Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this dispute between Ford Motor Company and defendant insurance company over the carrier’s cessation of payments under a stop-loss insurance policy, a Richmond U.S. District Court denies the insurance company’s motion for summary judgment claiming the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Michigan law controls two claims filed by Ford Motor Company against an indemnity company that ceased making payments under a stop-loss policy, because Ford set up Michigan bank accounts to receive those payments, and the Richmond U.S. District Court grants ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court accepts a magistrate judge’s recommendation to dismiss a suit alleging defendant fuel oil company, which sent a repair person to service a home furnace two weeks earlier, owed a common law duty to the residents ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Judge Robert E. Payne Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Ruling that Michigan law, not Virginia law, applies to Ford Motor Co.’s suit over delayed insurance payments, a Richmond federal judge has ended Ford’s chance to recover triple damages under the Virginia Business Conspiracy Act. Ford is headed for trial ...

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A Richmond federal judge has ordered a compensation payment of nearly $18 million against a company held in contempt for continued patent infringement. The decision by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne in ePlus Inc. v. Lawson Software Inc. (VLW ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Intellectual Property Judge Robert E. Payne

A federal judge has disqualified Richmond lawyer Scott C. Oostdyk as trial counsel just two months before he was scheduled to lead a legal team for Ford Motor Co. to try a case alleging an insurance company has been stalling ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court grants defendant indemnity company’s motion to disqualify or limit the trial role of a lawyer who represents plaintiff Ford Motor Company on contract and tortious interference claims; defendant is relying on a conversation and emails ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendants fighting a completed foreclosure can’t remove an unlawful detainer action from state court to federal court; the Richmond U.S. District Court says the “sue and be sued” provision in Fannie Mae’s federal charter does not confer jurisdiction on this ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District