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Negligence: $266,906 vehicle accident verdict is reversed
Where the district court held the defendant’s willful and wanton negligence led to a severe car accident, it erred. The defendant’s conduct fits no pattern of facts associated with willful and wanton negligence in Virginia case law, and qualifies only as simple or gross negligence—claims the plaintiff did not plead. The $266,906.03 verdict was reversed with instructions to enter judgment for[...]
Fear, emotional distress after assault on horseback rider — $550,000 verdict
A jury awarded $550,000 to a Loudoun County resident in an assault case against a neighborhood developer. The defendant was found liable of assault after a two-day trial.
Failure to monitor results in return of lung cancer, death — $1.5 million settlement
In 2021, the decedent, a 75-year-old male, was informed by his healthcare providers of a nodule in the middle lobe of his right lung that warranted a biopsy.
Driver hit from behind, impact pushes truck into front of car — $2 million settlement
On April 14, 2025, D.C., age 71, was traveling from South Carolina in her Kia Spectra to her daughter’s home in Northern Virginia with the intention of moving to Virginia.
Improper turn is blamed for crash involving tractor-trailer — $1 million settlement
The plaintiff was operating his vehicle behind a tractor-trailer hauling a low-boy trailer. The defendant driver made an improper left turn in front of an oncoming pick-up truck, causing it to strike the back of the low-boy trailer, become airborne and barrel roll onto the hood of the plaintiff’s vehicle.
Negligence: Father’s suit over son’s football injury is dismissed
Where a father sued Boston College and other defendants after his son suffered a severe knee injury while playing collegiate football, his suit was dismissed. Because the father is not an attorney, he cannot represent his son in court.
Negligence: Employee must pursue remedy for dog bite via worker’s compensation
Where the employer required an employee to be around the employer’s dogs and she was bitten while handling the horse in close proximity to the dog, her dog bite injury arose out of her employment and her exclusive remedy therefore lay in the Workers’ Compensation Act.
74-year-old swerves to avoid drunk driver, injured as a result — $300,000 settlement
To avoid a head-on collision with an approaching wrong-way drunk driver, a 74-year-old client swerved into the right lane on a rural divided highway. The client rear-ended a vehicle in the right lane as part of making the evasive maneuver.
Jury finds wife, a nurse, negligent in husband’s poisoning — $2.1 million verdict
In this wrongful death case, the decedent’s adult children sued their stepmother for poisoning their father with an overdose of salicylate, the main ingredient in aspirin.
Jury sides with hospitalist in wrongful death suit — Defense verdict
The plaintiff claimed that the defendant (a hospitalist) discharged a patient with hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome prematurely, leading to her death three days later.
Civil Procedure: Woman has standing to sue over husband’s death
Where a circuit court retroactively appointed the plaintiff as administrator for her husband’s estate, she has standing to bring personal-injury and wrongful-death actions on her husband’s behalf.
Nursing home cleared of liability following female resident’s death — Arbitration award for defense
The plaintiff’s decedent was admitted to the defendant’s nursing home to receive wound care following a leg skin graft at a local hospital.
Legal Tech
- How large language models are leveling the personal injury playing field
- Attorney Share, Lawmatics integrate to automate law firm referrals
- How ransomware tactics against law firms are changing
Verdicts & Settlements
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Motorcyclist suffers severe injuries in vehicle accident
- Medical Malpractice – Patient dies after alleged improper medicine admin
- Workers’ Compensation-Vehicle accident paralyzes Brazilian cement worker
- Medical Malpractice – Death from cancer followed stomach pain misdiagnosis
- Workers’ Compensation – Seasonal worker paralyzed in tobacco baler accident
Opinion Digests
- Criminal – Defendant convicted based upon Commonwealth witnesses’ testimony
- Zoning – Party failed to show its due process rights were violated
- Tort – Jury’s zero-damages verdict for inmate plaintiff affirmed
- Parent and child – Record supported termination of mother’s parental rights
- Criminal – Man convicted of grand larceny after stealing $26,000
- Parent and child – Brothers dispute who should be their mother’s guardian
- Tort – Allegedly defamatory statements lacked the requisite “sting”
