A plaintiff who was a guest at the Homestead resort on Nov. 13, 2013, and who alleges she slipped on ice that had accumulated when water was blown from a circular fountain onto the adjacent walkway, has not shown that ...

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

The widow of a Richmond businessman who was struck by a train as he walked along railroad tracks using earbuds can pursue a lawsuit over his death, thanks to a new ruling by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The high ...

Tagged with: Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

A Wal-Mart store wins summary judgment in plaintiff’s suit alleging injuries that occurred when she walked through water in the store parking lot while wearing “decorated flip-flops” and fell near an area where water allegedly had dripped from shopping carts; ...

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

A woman who alleges she was injured when she fell while walking on an asphalt path at Kingsmill Resort, at a grassy patch at the edge of the path that covered a hole that caused her to fall, may proceed ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a Chinese movie studio’s lawsuit against its former lawyer who negotiated film rights to “Birth of the Dragon,” a movie about martial arts legend Bruce Lee, with an entity that did not own the rights, the Richmond U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Judge Henry E. Hudson Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff who claimed injuries from an auto accident, in which she was rear-ended but there was no apparent damage to her vehicle and she returned to work the next day, was not entitled to a new trial after a ...

Tagged with: Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

Defendant Wal-Mart wins summary judgment in a plaintiff ’s suit seeking to recover for her slip and fall on a substance “like snot or jelly from something you eat,” near the frozen food cases in a Sam’s Club; plaintiff has ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

A Norfolk police officer who was test-driving a repaired police boat when it capsized and allegedly injured two employees of the repair company may assert a state sovereign immunity de­fense in plaintiff employees’ maritime personal injury suit filed in state ...

Tagged with: Negligence Norfolk Circuit Court

A woman who was shot in the leg in a club parking lot by a man who had been escorted from the bar by security after he became hostile when told to dispose of his alcoholic drink after 2:00 a.m., ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this wrongful death action filed by the estate of man who died on the job during a project converting a paper man­ufacturing plant into a tissue manufac­turing plant, the Richmond Circuit Court denies pleas in bar filed by three ...

Tagged with: Judge Clarence N. Jenkins Jr. Negligence Richmond Circuit Court