A Smithfield woman seeking protection from financial exposure after being sued over a traffic accident torpedoed her own personal injury defense with her bankruptcy filings, a judge has ruled. The woman – and the insurance companies covering her – now ...

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The Virginia Home in Richmond, a private, state-licensed home for disabled indigents, has charitable immunity from a negligence claim filed by a resident who suffers from cerebral palsy and suffered third-degree burns to her leg in a fire in her ...

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A Richmond Circuit Court rejects efforts by persons claiming interests in real estate in Richmond which have been raised after this court already has declared defendant in this action to be the owner of the property. On June 2, 2009, ...

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A financial services holding company that is suing defendant law firm for legal malpractice after the business had to defend civil actions by third parties and an action by the Securities & Exchange Commission has stated a viable claim for ...

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Although a biological father suffers from mild mental retardation and is unemployed, he has maintained contact with the child, whose mother died in 2010, and a Richmond Circuit Court awards physical and joint custody to the father over the objection ...

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A Richmond Circuit Court says a borrower who has defaulted on a mortgage loan cannot avoid foreclosure by claiming defendant assignee of the deed of trust cannot conduct a foreclosure without producing the deed of trust note. First, the deed ...

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Applying the test for sovereign immunity to defendants in a suit alleging injury at a nursing home operated by the Richmond Hospital Authority, a Richmond Circuit Court says the administrator has immunity from suit, but defendant nurses do not. Plaintiff ...

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On reconsideration, a Richmond Circuit Court says plaintiff, a financial services company, may not seek damages for loss of good will in its legal malpractice action against defendant firm, and the court sustains the law firm’s demurrer and dismisses the ...

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A 66-year-old female patient underwent an anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (“ACDF”) surgery. The following afternoon, the patient developed slight one-sided facial and eyelid swelling, and the on-call neurosurgeon was contacted by the nursing staff. The neurosurgeon communicated with the ...

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On May 31, 2009, the plaintiff was walking through the parking lot of a Walgreens store in Richmond. She was struck by an SUV driven by the defendant. An eyewitness subpoenaed to court was prepared to testify that after the ...

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