The plaintiff, a former executive, survives summary judgment on several claims arising from her treatment by the company’s CEO during and after a volatile intimate relationship involving threats and abusive behavior. Her husband’s separate claim for Title VII retaliation can ...

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A guest at the Omni Homestead did not demonstrate that the hotel had either actual notice of ice she slipped on or constructive notice, based on the hazardous condition allegedly caused by operating the outdoor fountain in sub-freezing conditions. Background ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard M. Gergel Personal Injury Premises Liability Tort Unpublished Opinion

A plaintiff needed to produce an expert to prove her former attorneys failed to exercise reasonable care, skill, and dispatch. She said counsel had caused her personal injury claim to become time-barred by suing the wrong entity. Background Plaintiff Gigi ...

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The Virginia Wrongful Death Act permits the distribution of damages to statutory beneficiaries of a fetus beyond only the natural mother. Background Plaintiff Ampara Lopez Healey lost her baby toward the end of her pregnancy, resulting in a stillborn birth. ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David A. Oblon Medical Malpractice Personal Injury Virginia Circuit Courts

The decedent lived at an apartment complex owned by the defendant. After a snow storm in March 2017, the parking lot and sidewalks of the property were plowed, and the snow was piled onto the grassy areas of the property. ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge JoAnne F. Alper Personal Injury Settlement

On May 2, 2017 in the morning on a clear dry day, the plaintiff left his high school on his bike and was riding home. He was riding on the left side shoulder/sidewalk of a one-way road and needed to ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas S. Shadrick Million-Dollar Settlements Negligence Personal Injury

Plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury and severe post traumatic stress disorder after a CRST, Inc. tractor-trailer, being driven by the defendant, Charles Hitchcock, slammed into her small, disabled vehicle as it sat on the side of a highway bridge ...

Tagged with: Judge Joe Heaton Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Verdict

The “Important Opinions” that appear each week on the front page of Virginia Lawyers Weekly are those chosen by our editors as the most likely to impact law practice or a given subject area of law. Below is a listing, ...

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A workers’ compensation carrier has no lien for a negotiated lump-sum settlement of a claimant›s future benefits in a tort action against a third party. Under Noblin v. Randolf Corp., 180 Va. 345 (1942), and Slusher v. Paramount Warrior, 336 F. Supp. ...

Tagged with: Buckingham County Circuit Court Insurance Judge Donald Carl Blessing Personal Injury Virginia Circuit Courts Workers' Compensation

The question whether the Lexington Carriage Company is protected by the limited grant of immunity in Code § 3.2-6200 et seq. may be one of first impression. Cases involving horse-drawn carriages are few in number. Many other states have equine ...

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