An employee of a marine repair company who brings a maritime personal injury action against the city of Norfolk and a Norfolk police officer, alleging he was injured when the police officer was test-driving a repaired police boat that capsized, ...

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A patient who consented to spinal fusion at the C5-C6 level of his spine, only to have the surgeon mistakenly fuse the C6-C7 level, cannot sue the surgeon for battery, but is limited to pursuing a negligence theory of recovery, ...

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Plaintiffs who used defendant marina owner’s 1999 Jeep to tow a dinghy up from plaintiffs’ rented boat slip, and who allege they were injured when the Jeep, placed in Park, rolled back into plaintiffs as they attempted to secure the ...

Tagged with: Judge David J. Novak Judge M. Hannah Lauck Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff ’s suit alleging injuries when his vehicle struck a tractor trailer in the early morning when defendants used one tractor to retrieve a disabled tractor from a tractor-trailer at a rest stop on I-81, a Roanoke U.S. District ...

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

In plaintiff’s suit for injuries suffered when she tripped and fell over a single step at the entrance to a commercial property, the Richmond Circuit Court excludes expert opinions from a human factors practitioner and a structural engineer as invading ...

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A plaintiff who alleges defendant Wal-Mart knew, during roofing work at the store, of three separate instances of material falling from the ceiling and striking customers, but took no action to protect customers prior to the incident when she was ...

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

An executor can sue a railroad company whose train fatally struck her husband, who was walking adjacent to railroad tracks, listening through earbuds to music on his cell phone, when he was struck by a part of the train that ...

Tagged with: Justice Cleo E. Powell Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia

A Wal-Mart store wins summary judgment in a plaintiff’s suit alleging she was injured when she, while wearing rubber flip-flops, entered the store and began pushing a shopping cart, and her “feet went out from under” her and she slipped ...

Tagged with: Judge Jackson L. Kiser Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District

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 ...

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