In this suit alleging products liability and contract claims arising from the use of allegedly defective Chinese drywall in various properties, a Norfolk Circuit Court grants two defendant insurance carriers’ motion to sever a count seeking a declaration that the ...

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The plaintiffs – a husband and wife – were in their pickup truck, stopped in traffic on Interstate 264 in Virginia Beach, when they were rear-ended by the defendant’s car. The plaintiff wife was treated by chiropractor John Clayton of ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman A. Thomas Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury

Plaintiff was 16 years old when he underwent pectus excavatum surgery on Jan. 30, 2007, to correct a congenital deformity of the chest wall. During the surgery, the defendant provided anesthesia care. Plaintiff claimed that his blood pressure dropped extremely ...

Tagged with: Judge Karen J. Burrell Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Norfolk Circuit Court

Thomas Guzzetta’s parents looked all over the country for a surgeon to repair his congenital hollow chest and brought him from Southern California to the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk. Dr. Donald Nuss had developed a minimally ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Norfolk Circuit Court

A Norfolk Circuit Court consolidated for a liability trial suits filed by six employees of the Christian Broadcasting Network who allege injuries from their exposure to chemicals used by defendant Baker Roofing Company during roofing repairs on the building where ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Louis Allen Sherman Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk Circuit Court says a school board must produce records related to an investigation of a middle school’s testing procedures in response to a newspaper’s FOIA request, but the school board may exclude from production any individual records considered ...

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A man who claims injuries when his forklift tipped over because defendant, an Ohio machine shop, allegedly mislabeled a box as weighing 2,800 pounds when in fact it weighed 4,144 pounds, cannot sue the company in Norfolk Circuit Court because ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court says a habeas petitioner who asserts claims including ineffective assistance of counsel and conflict of interest, is not entitled to discovery related to the federal indictment and conviction of Norfolk police investigator Robert G. Ford. Rule ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Norman A. Thomas Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk Circuit Court denies a habeas petitioner’s motion to file under seal an unredacted version of an affidavit filed by one of petitioner’s attorneys, based on the litigant’s claim that “witnesses who provided the information have expressed concerns that ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court says a habeas petitioner who asserts claims including juror misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel, is not entitled to discovery related to the federal indictment and conviction of Norfolk police investigator Robert G. Ford; however, the ...

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