In a restaurant patron’s suit for damages from food poisoning after eating shellfish at defendant’s restaurant, the Roanoke U.S. District Court dismisses a claim for “equitable indemnification” in a fourth-party complaint filed by one seafood provider against another provider because ...

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Lawyers for Virginia patients who claim they contracted fungal meningitis from medicine prepared by a Massachusetts laboratory are skeptical about the reach of an early mediation proposal offered by a federal judge. ‘The mediation proposal appears designed to bring defendants ...

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The plaintiff was a 13-year-old boy who was riding a bicycle when the right pedal of the bike sheared off, causing him to fly off the bike and strike his head. The plaintiff was not wearing a helmet. His injury ...

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A Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses a prescription drug products liability case filed by a woman who alleges she suffered infertility and contracted Stevens-Johnson syndrome as a result of taking Dexilant, an acid reflux drug manufactured and distributed by defendant ...

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A Pulaski County jury has awarded $14 million to a Radford man who suffered a traumatic brain injury blamed on alleged safety lapses in his Hyundai car. The verdict may be a record for a products claim in Southwest Virginia. ...

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In these nearly identical suits alleging injury from contaminated steroids manufactured by defendant New England Compounding Pharmacy Inc., the Roanoke U.S. District Court will stay plaintiffs’ motions to remand these matters to state court until the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict ...

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In this case against a stun gun manufacturer for allegedly failing to provide sufficient warnings about the weapon’s risk for people with heart conditions, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court says earlier limitations it placed on testimony by plaintiff’s expert about ...

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A change of heart by a single justice has brought an end to a short-lived “relaxed” standard for failure-to-warn claims under Virginia products liability law. After rehearing a products liability case, Virginia Supreme Court Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. switched ...

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In this products liability suit against Ford Motor Company filed by a family whose daughter died of severe burns from a key-off fire in the family’s Ford Windstar van, the Supreme Court of Virginia says on rehearing that the trial ...

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A stun gun manufacturer faces a federal jury trial on claims it failed to provide sufficient warnings about the weapon’s risk for people with heart conditions. While allowing three claims against TASER International Inc. to go forward, a Charlottesville federal ...

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