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T-bone crash results in partial tongue paralysis, other injuries — $2.975 million settlement
The plaintiff was visiting family in Virginia and a passenger in host family’s vehicle driven by the plaintiff’s spouse at time of crash.
Driver hurt after tractor-trailer drifts off roadway, hits his truck — $3.6 million settlement
The plaintiff, a 59-year-old man, was driving his pickup truck on an interstate highway, towing a flatbed trailer loaded with a second pickup truck.
4th Circuit reverses, rules driver’s negligence not willful and wanton
The 4th Circuit reversed a Virginia ruling finding willful and wanton negligence in a high-speed car crash, holding the driver’s conduct amounted only to simple or gross negligence.
Passenger’s injuries from auto accident include TBI — $3 million settlement
The plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle approaching an intersection in Richmond when the defendant attempted to make a left-hand turn in front of the vehicle, resulting in a significant collision that was captured on video.
Plaintiff paralyzed after impact of rear-end collision — $18.5 million settlement
The plaintiff is a 49-year-old woman. She is married and has four children. In late fall of 2024, she was driving to work in Albemarle County. She was stopped in traffic when she was hit from behind by a commercial motor vehicle.
College student dies after motorcycle struck by truck — $530,000 settlement
A 21-year-old college student was riding his motorcycle when a small truck made an illegal left turn in front of him, causing the crash. The student died the same day due to his injuries.
Negligence: $266,906 vehicle accident verdict is reversed
Where the district court held the defendant’s willful and wanton negligence led to a severe car accident, it erred. The defendant’s conduct fits no pattern of facts associated with willful and wanton negligence in Virginia case law, and qualifies only as simple or gross negligence—claims the plaintiff did not plead. The $266,906.03 verdict was reversed with instructions to enter judgment for[...]
Driver hit from behind, impact pushes truck into front of car — $2 million settlement
On April 14, 2025, D.C., age 71, was traveling from South Carolina in her Kia Spectra to her daughter’s home in Northern Virginia with the intention of moving to Virginia.
Improper turn is blamed for crash involving tractor-trailer — $1 million settlement
The plaintiff was operating his vehicle behind a tractor-trailer hauling a low-boy trailer. The defendant driver made an improper left turn in front of an oncoming pick-up truck, causing it to strike the back of the low-boy trailer, become airborne and barrel roll onto the hood of the plaintiff’s vehicle.
74-year-old swerves to avoid drunk driver, injured as a result — $300,000 settlement
To avoid a head-on collision with an approaching wrong-way drunk driver, a 74-year-old client swerved into the right lane on a rural divided highway. The client rear-ended a vehicle in the right lane as part of making the evasive maneuver.
Tractor trailer crash results in traumatic brain injury — $850,000 settlement
Many of the details of this matter are confidential and may not be disclosed pursuant to the terms of the parties’ settlement. However, it can be reported that this was the settlement of a case involving a tractor trailer crash.
Cyclist who’s struck by SUV suffers pelvic fracture, soft-tissue injuries — $100,000 settlement
In November 2024 the plaintiff, a 31-year-old experienced cyclist, was commuting home from work when he was struck by a left-turning vehicle in McLean. The defendant failed to yield while turning left, striking the plaintiff.
Verdicts & Settlements
- Medical Malpractice – Patient suffers stroke from ruptured aneurysm
- Premises Liability- Man suffers paralysis after bench tipped back
- Medical Malpractice – Botched tubal ligation results in childbirth
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Pickup truck passenger dies from crash injuries
- Medical Malpractice-Patient received spleen injury during colonoscopy
- Medical Malpractice – Patient suffers complications from improper cyst removal
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Henrico driver sustained wrist fracture in five-car collision
- Medical Malpractice-Patient dies following blood loss in surgery
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Defense points to plaintiff’s prior collision, stressors
- Medical Malpractice – Ingrown toenail removal leads to CRPS type 2
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Rear-seat passenger injured when car hits telephone pole
Opinion Digests
- Arbitration – Court decides whether nonparty to arbitration agreement can enforce it
- Constitutional – Circuit court applied wrong standard in church dispute
- Civil Procedure – Medical malpractice statute of limitations doesn’t apply to claims against hospital
- Bankruptcy – Creditor can’t examine debtor under Bankruptcy Code § 707(b)(1)
- Administrative – Court construes Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- Taxation – County’s tax assessment was ‘plainly wrong’
- Negligence – Release doesn’t bar rider’s negligence claim against horse owner
- Bankruptcy – Motion to reinstate Chapter 7 petition previously dismissed by court is denied
- Wills and trusts – Court applied incorrect statute of limitations to breach of trust claims
- Administrative – Doctor’s attacks on license suspension order fails
- Habeas Corpus – Petition attacking military court martial is dismissed
- Parent and Child – Stepmother awarded custody of stepchildren over father’s objection
