In July 2009, the plaintiff was stopped at a red light when the defendant rear-ended her pick-up truck, totaling both vehicles and pushing the plaintiff into the car in front of her. The plaintiff was dazed and refused medical treatment ...

Tagged with: Judge Gregory L. Rupe Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Richmond Circuit Court

Plaintiff was a wheelchair-bound nursing home patient who suffered from psychosis, left side paralysis due to a stroke, a fractured left hip, total left arm contractors, a bad back, left side neuropathy, impaired field of vision and partial immobility. He ...

Tagged with: Judge David H. Beck Million-Dollar Verdicts Negligence Spotsylvania Circuit Court

After being convicted of abusing his own children, spending four years in prison before exoneration, and then battling with his lawyers for 10 years, Bruce McLaughlin may finally see compensation for his travails. A Fairfax County jury last month awarded ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Michael F. Devine Legal Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts

A New York investment advisor who hoped to build a large-scale bomb shelter in rural Virginia to defend against weapons of mass destruction has won a $1.76-million jury verdict against the Texas company that supplied the shelter components. In his ...

Tagged with: Contract Federal Courts Million-Dollar Verdicts

A law firm did not commit malpractice when it allegedly failed to communicate a “walk-away” settlement offer to its client, a federal appeals court said in an Oct. 18 decision upholding summary judgment for the law firm. Richmond-based Williams Mullen ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Million-Dollar Verdicts

This was a legal malpractice lawsuit arising out of a medical malpractice claim. Plaintiff was an active and athletic 13-year-old when she was diagnosed with adolescent scoliosis. She sought treatment from Dr. Susan Atkins, a Richmond pediatric orthopedist, who ultimately ...

Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Legal Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court

Years of litigation, an unpaid loan and fraud on the court all added up to more than $11 million awarded by a Gloucester County Circuit judge on a summary judgment motion. The case dates back to 2005, when Meadow Financial ...

Tagged with: Gloucester County Circuit Court Judge Thomas B. Hoover Million-Dollar Verdicts

Personal injury plaintiffs who saw two of Virginia’s largest jury awards of 2012 reduced or struck by trial judges took their cases to the Supreme Court of Virginia this week. On Sept. 11, the justices heard back-to-back appeals involving a ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Supreme Court of Virginia

The plaintiff, a 34-year-old mother, was scheduled for a repeat Caesarean section, but went into labor nine days early on Aug. 1, 2010.  Labor progressed quickly. She delivered a healthy baby girl vaginally, with no complications. After delivery, plaintiff complained ...

Tagged with: Chesterfield County Circuit Court Judge Steven C. McCallum Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts

The case began at 2:22 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2010, Richmond attorney Stephanie E. Grana told the jury in her opening statement. That’s the time Sally Arbogast gave birth to a healthy baby girl. But it’s also the time when ...

Tagged with: Chesterfield County Circuit Court Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts