A Norfolk police officer was immune from negligence claims arising from his operation of a marine vessel that capsized, but claims against him asserting gross negligence could go to trial. Background In January 2014, the City of Norfolk contracted with ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Municipal Negligence Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

The victim of a sexual assault by a bouncer at a Virginia Beach hoo­kah bar received a $225,000 set­tlement in mediation despite not initially seeking damages. The woman filed suit in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to hold the hookah bar ...

Tagged with: Employment Negligence

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court grants defendant’s 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss plaintiff’s negligence claim, based on a failure to train or supervise theory.  In so doing, the court succinctly summarizes Virginia law on the issue. Plaintiff, MCI Communications Services, Inc., ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

Greyhound prevails on its Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss an amended complaint for negligent infliction of emotional distress filed in the U.S. District Court, Roanoke, by parents of a minor who bought a Greyhound ticket without presenting an unaccompanied minor ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen E. Conrad Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

The city of Norfolk has sovereign immunity in this suit filed by a plaintiff who was injured when a Norfolk police officer was test-driving a repaired police boat that capsized and injured two repair company employees, who are suing the ...

Tagged with: Judge David W. Lannetti Negligence Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

In this lawsuit filed by three plaintiffs against the freight broker that hired a tractor-trailer driver who allegedly caused multiple crashes and the death of two persons and severe injury to a third person, the Roanoke U.S. District Court excludes ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

In this suit for money damages filed by the surviving parent and sibling of two family members who died when a German pilot deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 into a mountainside in the Alps, plaintiffs may sue defendant Germanwings and ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court has personal jurisdiction over United Airlines in this lawsuit filed by plaintiffs, whose family members died in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, which was deliberately downed on a mountainside by its copilot; the court ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this personal injury suit in which defendant has admitted liability for an auto accident, the Roanoke U.S. District Court will admit plaintiff’s evidence showing that defendant’s medical expert has received $524,045 in fees from defendant’s carrier, State Farm, as ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

A Petersburg Circuit Court denies defendants’ demurrer and rules that plaintiff administrator may proceed on its second amended complaint under Virginia’s fetal wrongful death statute, Va. Code § 8.01-50(B) and (C), alleging the death of a mother and her eight-week-old ...

Tagged with: Judge Joseph M. Teefey Jr. Negligence Petersburg Circuit Court