This case stemmed from an accident that occurred at approximately 3:00 a.m. on Sept. 14, 2012, on I-264 in Norfolk. The intoxicated defendant drove around orange cones and a stationary state police cruiser with flashing blue lights at a road ...

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A trust beneficiary can maintain a derivative suit on behalf of a trustee against a third party de facto trustee, and the Norfolk Circuit Court overrules an estate’s demurrers to plaintiff’s suit alleging mismanagement of two irrevocable trusts of which ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court denies the city of Norfolk summary judgment in its effort to thwart a referendum on the city’s rezoning of land to allow the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia to sell property around the historically significant Talbot ...

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Although two plaintiffs suing for defects in new homes bought in 2007 presented nonsuit orders dated Aug. 13, 2013, one of the orders was dated “8-14-2013” by the judge who signed it, and the plaintiff’s claim for breach of contract ...

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Plaintiff was lying on a treatment table in a chiropractor’s office when a shelf installed by the defendant chiropractor fell from the wall and struck the plaintiff’s head and neck. There was only $1,000,000 in coverage. Plaintiff’s counsel refused to ...

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Plaintiff, 49, had been treated by various physicians at the defendant clinic since at least 1999 for recurrent sinusitis, upper respiratory infections and allergic rhinitis. He presented to the defendant doctor in December 2009 for an annual physical. The physical ...

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A former bank president has won $810,495 in severance pay and attorney’s fees and costs, in a contract dispute that wound through federal and state courts for the past two years. Scott Harvard served as president of Shore Bank and ...

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The injury claim seems straightforward. Your client was hurt in a motor vehicle accident. The other driver clearly was at fault. The other vehicle has plenty of insurance. So, why is this case not a slam-dunk winner? If the other ...

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A woman whose son died in 2007, but who did not discover until she received a 2009 autopsy report that her son’s eyes had been removed despite an alleged lack of consent to organ donation, cannot sue new defendants, a ...

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The 39-year-old plaintiff sought treatment from the defendant gynecologist on May 18, 2004, for complaints of pelvic pain, dyspareunia and urinary frequency. Plaintiff had a previous history of hysterectomy, pelvic adhesions, lysis of pelvic adhesions, childhood sexual abuse and a ...

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