A Norfolk Circuit judge advises the parties in this suit by an estate against defendants, including Sentara Healthcare System, that the judge’s wife is the director of marketing for Sentara. The court does not believe it has a per se ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge John R. Doyle III Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk Circuit Court agrees with Nationwide that its policy language limiting its UM/UIM coverage is clear and unambiguous in its rejection of intra-policy stacking, and affords an auto-accident plaintiff $75,000 in coverage, not $175,000. On July 15, 2008, plaintiff ...

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

Where an unmarried couple bought a foreclosure home as joint tenants with right of survivorship, but they later sold the home to their tenant, with owner financing, and continued to divide the monthly payments after they split up, the survivorship ...

Tagged with: Judge John R. Doyle III Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

A defendant who pleaded guilty to rape and murder has his habeas corpus petition dismissed by a Norfolk Circuit Court as filed eight years too late. The final order was entered May 13, 1999. The Court of Appeals affirmed the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Funds seized by defendant St. Joe Company from Advantis real estate company under a Deposit Control Agreement after Advantis defaulted on its obligations to St. Joe, belong to plaintiff N.R.H.A., who paid the money to Advantis as its agent to ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge John R. Doyle III Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Norfolk Circuit Court will temporarily postpone a court-ordered settlement conference in this case, upon receipt of counsel’s letters stating the case is not ready for settlement “at this time,” but the court will not cancel the conference, which shall ...

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

An unmarried couple’s joint tenancy with survivorship outlasted their romantic relationship, leaving the male partner to collect mortgage payments on their jointly owned property after the female partner died, in a new decision from Norfolk Circuit Court. The male partner ...

Tagged with: Judge John R. Doyle III Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate Wills & Trusts

Although decedent executed a 1987 will in accordance with her alleged parol contract to give her home to plaintiff and her husband in exchange for lifelong care, a Norfolk Circuit Court says plaintiff cannot sue for damages on the alleged ...

Tagged with: Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts Wills & Trusts

A Norfolk Circuit Court overrules a lawyer’s demurrer to a defamation action filed by a sea captain against the lawyer, who gave a reporter a copy of a North Carolina lawsuit and an EEOC complaint filed by a seaman alleging ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles E. Poston Norfolk Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

A plaintiff company that alleges defendant temp agency assigned to plaintiff a temp without disclosing her prior convictions for financial felonies, and the temp embezzled and stole money and property, cannot sue the temp agency for negligence, but may amend ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts