The plaintiff, a 47-year-old man, suffered a spinal cord injury at T9-10 that rendered him a paraplegic as a result of a motor vehicle crash. Liability was hotly contested in this case. The defense argued that the driver of the ...

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The Supreme Court held that, because an inmate’s time to file a notice of tort claim against the Commonwealth was tolled while his administrative grievances were pending, his notice was not time-barred. Appellant Abbas Ahmed alleges that, while an inmate ...

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The assault cause of action arose out of an occurrence on June 20, 2006. Plaintiff Pat Hanson saw defendant Steven Cassidy and members of his family dismantling a fence between the Cassidy property and the Hanson property. When Pat Hanson ...

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The plaintiff was a 43-year-old legal secretary from Pennsylvania, who was a front-seat belted passenger on her way to vacation (Busch Gardens) when the vehicle she was riding in was struck from behind two times by a large dump truck ...

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This was a lawsuit against a landlord for a total deck collapse involving an elevated deck attached to the rear of a home, which was owned by the landlord for many years. The plaintiff was an invitee of the tenant. ...

Tagged with: Halifax County Circuit Court Judge William Wellons Personal Injury

Plaintiff, a 34-year-old woman, entered a national retailer at approximately 9:45 PM on the evening of Sept. 17, 2013. Unbeknownst to the plaintiff, floor cleaning activity by a subcontractor for the retailer had started after 9:30 and prior to the ...

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While slowing to stop at a traffic signal on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, in the City of Newport News, plaintiff’s sedan was struck from behind at a high rate of speed by a work truck driven by the defendant driver, ...

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On March 2, 2012, the plaintiff was stopped at a red light at the 3100 block of Shore Drive in Virginia Beach. The defendant was driving at approximately 30 miles per hour behind the defendant and rear-ended her vehicle. While ...

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Plaintiff is a 60-year-old grandmother who was struck outside her vehicle in the early morning by a commercial truck in Hampton Roads. The injuries included non-surgical fractures of the left leg, a broken bone in her neck and a broken ...

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Plaintiff was seriously injured when he was crossing a busy intersection and struck by the defendant motorist. Following the collision, the defendant told the investigating police officer that he had a red traffic signal as he approached the intersection, came ...

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