On May 3, 2016, a 19-year-old man was visiting his sister’s apartment, and started to walk down an outdoor stairway to the deck of the apartment below. As he was about halfway down, he stopped to pet a neighbor’s dog ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court

On Oct. 18, 2016, plaintiff Albert Weadon, then 78 years old, was crossing Mount Vernon Avenue in a marked crosswalk at its intersection with E. Oxford Street in the Del Ray section of Alexandria. Defendant Carol Layer, a City of ...

Tagged with: Alexandria Circuit Court Judge JoAnne F. Alper Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury

A malpractice suit was filed as a result of permanent paralysis following neurosurgery. Details are confidential. [18-T-112] Type of action: Medical Malpractice Injuries alleged: Permanent Paralysis Verdict or settlement: Settlement Amount: $1,975,000.00 Attorneys for plaintiff: Dan Frith and Lauren Ellerman, ...

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On June 24, 2015, plaintiff, a 47-year-old construction worker, was driving his Chevy van westbound on Route 55 in Warren County. At that time, the defendant was driving his commercial van eastbound on Route 55 when he struck the vehicle ...

Tagged with: John J. McGrath Jr. Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury Warren County Circuit Court

On Oct. 5, 2012, the decedent was working as a pipefitter at a paper manufacturing plant in Southeast Virginia. The project included the conversion of the plant from a paper manufacturing plant to a tissue mill. The owner of the ...

Tagged with: Judge Pamela S. Baskervill Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

Plaintiff, a 63-year-old male professional, was referred by his general dentist to an oral specialist to assess and treat an oral lesion with an appearance consistent with potential cancer. The oral specialist assumed that the oral lesion was not cancerous ...

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On March 3, 2005, the claimant, then a 27-year-old chemical mixer in good health, suffered severe injuries while mixing chemicals for an industrial chemical distributor in Roanoke. He sustained chemical burns to 60 percent of his body. The life-altering accident ...

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During a laparoscopic cholyocystomy the surgeon caused extensive vasobiliary injuries, as evidenced by the imaging and post-surgical repairs: (1) The right hepatic artery was truncated very high, just beyond its origin; this vessel supplies the majority of oxygenated blood to ...

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At the time of the medical care at issue in December 2014, the plaintiff was 48 and employed as a Public Affairs Specialist. She had just been promoted five weeks before the procedure in question. The plaintiff is married, has ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After nearly a decade of litigation, stemming from disputes over who owns the right to coal bed methane gas in a large swath of southwest Virginia, a federal judge has approved a $4 million settlement to be distributed between over ...

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