Despite a medical examiner’s initial conclusion that a Westmoreland County woman committed suicide, a jury this month decided the woman’s husband was complicit in her 2010 death and awarded the wife’s estate $8 million. The result in the unusual civil ...

Tagged with: Judge Harry T. Taliaferro III Million-Dollar Verdicts Westmoreland County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

On Feb. 5, 2010, the decedent, Sally Rumsey, went “missing” from her country home in Westmoreland County. Her husband, Stephen Andersen, claimed he was in the woods walking the dogs when his wife disappeared. He said that they had argued ...

Tagged with: Judge Harry T. Taliaferro III Million-Dollar Verdicts Westmoreland County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

Plaintiff, a 49-year-old man, presented for a left L3 transforaminal epidural steroid injection to be performed using CT fluoroscopic guidance. Approximately 60 seconds after the injection of Kenalog, plaintiff began to experience permanent paralysis. Subsequent studies revealed a spinal cord ...

Tagged with: Fredericksburg Circuit Court Judge Gordon F. Willis Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts

The decedent was a 42-year-old mother of three boys and the wife of a recently retired Marine drill sergeant. She went to Henrico Doctors Hospital on July 10, 2009, for a tubal ligation. It was to be an outpatient procedure, ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Judge James L. Yoffy Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Wrongful Death

Plaintiff is a Ph.D. research biochemist, 57, who was rear-ended by the defendant. Plaintiff struck his head on the steering wheel but did not lose consciousness. He was, however, extremely confused and dazed at the crash site. He initially treated ...

Tagged with: Judge Burke McCahill Loudoun County Circuit Court Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury

A lawyer for a Virginia woman paralyzed during surgery says he is determined to recover compensation from the law firm that fumbled her medical negligence case, even though a judge last week denied insurance coverage for the woman’s legal malpractice ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts

In what is believed to be the largest verdict in U.S. history for a case of this kind, a 40-year-old woman who gave birth to a healthy child after a failed bilateral tubligation was awarded the sued upon amount of ...

Tagged with: Judge Timothy S. Fisher Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Newport News Circuit Court

The case involved a 52-year-old Norfolk Southern Railroad locomotive engineer who was injured on May 1, 2011, in the Waynesboro Yard. At approximately 11:00 p.m., he tripped over a metal “joint” bar that had previously been removed from one of ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court

The decedent purchased a modular home from the defendant. During the tornado that hit Gloucester in April 2011, the home was lifted off its foundation, flew through the air for several yards and flew through the garage where the decedent ...

Tagged with: Judge Frederick B. Lowe Million-Dollar Verdicts Wrongful Death York County Circuit Court

A long-running dispute in Harrisonburg federal court between a local cable company and DIRECTV, the giant cable provider, over the numbers of customers at Massanutten receiving service has come to an end. Score one for the giant. U.S. District Judge ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Michael F. Urbanski Million-Dollar Verdicts