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

Deciding he should not have allowed certain scientific testimony in the case, a Virginia circuit judge has overturned a $3 million verdict and ordered a new trial for a man injured when he was run over by a car, a ...

Tagged with: Henry County Circuit Court Judge David V. Williams Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury

In this issue, Virginia Lawyers Weekly presents its compilation of “Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2013.” Eighteen qualifying verdicts were reported to Virginia Lawyers Weekly in 2013. This number is slightly down from the 2012 compilation, where 20 cases made the ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Verdicts

Litigation was initiated in federal court in Atlanta by Mariner, a Georgia-based guarantor of a lease of a nursing home facility in Scott County, Va. Guarantor Mariner sued landlord Elderberry, a Lynchburg LLC, seeking declaratory judgment that a written lease ...

Tagged with: Contract Federal Courts Judge Norman K. Moon Million-Dollar Verdicts

A deputy who blew the whistle on his superiors’ alleged pressure to change his story about force used on a suspect will keep his $1.1 million jury award against a Maryland county sheriff’s office. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Tagged with: Employment Federal Courts Judge Andre M. Davis Million-Dollar Verdicts

A Fairfax jury of five men and two women awarded plaintiff, Bruce McLaughlin, $5.75 million in his legal malpractice case against the law firm of Shevlin Smith. The case is unique in that McLaughlin prevailed in proving his case within ...

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

Global Hub Logistics was an Afghanistan-based logistics contractor hired by Tamerlane Global Services Inc. to complete movements of military cargo out of Afghanistan during 2011. Tamerlane refused to pay Global Hub for completed movements of cargo after the relationship between ...

Tagged with: Contract Federal Courts Judge Gerald Bruce Lee Million-Dollar Verdicts

The plaintiff was a 32-year-old man who suffered a minor L-1 compression fracture as a result of an ATV accident. He was taken to the Loudoun Hospital emergency room where he came under the care of neurosurgeon Dr. Mudit Sharma, ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Charles James Maxfield Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts