In this products liability case involving the wrongful death of an 88-year-old man from a fire on his Ryobi lawn tractor, the Norfolk U.S. District Court sanctions defendant Ryobi for its disclosure, days before trial, of a prior fire involving ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson Products Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Decedent Frank S. Wright, an 88-year-old Chesapeake resident, died on Dec. 23, 2010, when his Ryobi ride-on lawn mower exploded while he was using the mower and burned him to death. The case was filed against Ryobi and Home Depot ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Raymond A. Jackson Million-Dollar Verdicts Products Liability

A Norfolk federal court wants to know more about destroyed evidence in a products liability suit involving java giant Starbucks and a Virginia vendor of leisure furniture. The coffee company faces possible dismissal of design defect claims for chairs used ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. Products Liability

Having already concluded defendant townhomes have no coverage for damage from Chinese Drywall under the “pollution exclusion” in plaintiff carriers’ insurance policies, a Newport News U.S. District Court says the carriers have no obligations under secondary coverage provisions for damages ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Products Liability U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A jury in Norfolk federal court has awarded $2.5 million for the wrongful death of an 88-year-old man who died in December 2010 when the Ryobi riding lawn tractor he was using caught fire and he burned to death. In an unusual ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Raymond A. Jackson Million-Dollar Verdicts Products Liability Wrongful Death

The Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a $14 million jury award to a young man severely injured in a single-car accident while driving a 2008 Hyundai Tiburon; the circuit court erred in admitting the opinion testimony of plaintiffs’ designated expert ...

Tagged with: Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Products Liability Supreme Court of Virginia

BALTIMORE, MD — A mother’s claim that major food producers failed to warn her that their bottled fluoridated water could damage her daughter’s teeth cannot proceed due to the companies’ compliance with federal labeling requirements, a federal appeals court has ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Products Liability

In a community fire department’s products liability suit against a manufacturer of equipment for aftermarket designers and manufacturers of fire engines, a Danville U.S. District Court says plaintiff’s claims for negligent design and duty to warn should go to a ...

Tagged with: Judge Jackson L. Kiser Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District

The estate of a man who died from an alleged overdose of Dilaudid from a misprogrammed pain pump prescribed after the man’s hernia surgery may try its products liability action against the manufacturer of the pain pump; even though the ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Products Liability U.S. District Court - Western District

Defendant Boy Scouts of America is not entitled to summary judgment in this tort action filed by a Boy Scout who alleges he suffered permanent injury from hemolytic uremic syndrome developed after his illness with E. coli contamination from ground ...

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