Although the estate of a plant worker crushed by a lift truck offered a truck redesign that could have prevented that particular worker’s death, there was no evidence that the redesign would lead to fewer total deaths. Thus, the jury’s ...

Tagged with: Justice Stephen R. McCullough Negligence Personal Injury Products Liability Supreme Court of Virginia Tort

In a workplace-injury suit, an equipment manufacturer had a duty to account for foreseeable misuses of its product, regardless of whether the specific workplace met federal safety standards. Background Plaintiff Corey Stowers was a maintenance worker at a Georgia Pacific ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Personal Injury Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District

Filed days before the end of the limitations period and never served, the initial complaint didn’t put the defendant on notice of the suit, a Virginia circuit court held. The filing period also wasn’t extended by the defendant’s use of ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Personal Injury Virginia Circuit Courts

On Sept. 9, 2012, the plaintiff was 2 ½ years old. She lived with her mom, her older brother, and a friend in an apartment complex in Petersburg. At approximately 2:35 pm, the friend left the apartment and was walking ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael C. Allen Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury

This was a personal injury action arising from a motor vehicle collision that occurred in April 2015 in Loudoun County. At the time of the collision, a marketing representative from Polyface Inc. was on a two-day business trip from Central ...

Tagged with: Judge Lorraine Nordlund Loudoun County Circuit Court Personal Injury Verdict

Defendant Wal-Mart Stores seeks summary judgment in this slip-and-fall case. Virginia law applies. The only evidence in the record is the deposition testimony of Plaintiff Mary Diggs and her companion at Wal-Mart on the day in question. The facts drawn ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Negligence Personal Injury Premises Liability Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

Concluding that its first-impression immunity rulings would likely lead to an appeal of any trial result, the court stayed proceedings in a negligence action pending interlocutory appeals requested by both parties. Background In January 2014, the City of Norfolk contracted ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge David W. Lannetti Negligence Norfolk Circuit Court Personal Injury Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

The former head of a Virginia agency, sued in her personal capacity for failure to manage patient intake at state mental health hospitals, was entitled to qualified immunity because prisons are not per se unable to safely care for mentally ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Civil Rights Constitutional Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Personal Injury Prisons & Jails Tort

This was a negligent action that settled during mediation. Plaintiff sustained a mild traumatic brain injury. The remaining facts are confidential. [18-T-011] Type of action: Personal Injury Tried before: Mediation Date resolved: May 8, 2017 Verdict or settlement: Settlement Amount: ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury

The plaintiff suffered a severe both bone forearm fracture when the defendant’s car failed to yield and turned left in front of his motorcycle, causing a collision on Sept. 5, 2015, in Orange County. The defendant denied liability until the ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Settlement