A circuit judge has allowed a doctor to testify on the standard of care for nurses in a nursing home, despite objections that Virginia law ordinarily would not allow a practitioner in one medical field to testify on the standard ...

Tagged with: Judge W. Revell Lewis III Northampton County Circuit Court

Plaintiff was oper­ating his vehicle on U.S. 13 on the East­ern Shore of Virginia when it suffered a me­chanical breakdown. After pulling the ve­hicle on to the shoul­der of the highway, plaintiff attempted to push the disabled ve­hicle into an ...

Tagged with: Judge Jack S. Hurley Jr. Northampton County Circuit Court Personal Injury Settlement

Plaintiff was a 60-year-old woman with multiple post-graduate degrees and a high-level, executive position in a government agency involved in the field of intelligence. She was severely injured by a hit-and-run driver while riding her bicycle on the shoulder of ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Northampton County Circuit Court Personal Injury

Plaintiff presented to the emergency room at Shore Memorial Hospital with multiple stroke-like symptoms. After running a number of tests and a CT scan, the diagnosis was a migraine headache. Plaintiff was instructed to take an aspirin and return in ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Northampton County Circuit Court

Doug Kahle had a problem. The Virginia Beach lawyer was taking his case to trial, but he wasn’t sure he could get in the evidence he needed to show a crooked contractor had deliberately fleeced his clients. Kahle was armed ...

Tagged with: Fraud Northampton County Circuit Court

As North and South clashed during the Civil War, court officials across Virginia sent their records to Richmond, hoping to keep them away from invading Union armies. “It seemed to be common practice that the invading army would go straight ...

Tagged with: Legal History Northampton County Circuit Court

Plaintiff, age 30, was struck on the left side of her vehicle in an intersection when the defendant ran a red light. Plaintiff’s head struck and broke her driver’s side window. She suffered headaches, memory problems, anxiety and executive functioning ...

Tagged with: Judge Joseph A. Leafe Northampton County Circuit Court Personal Injury