Long distance phone records sought from the judiciary are not public records, as the Virginia Freedom of Information Act does not apply to the judiciary, including its executive secretary. Background On June 20, 2018, the Office of the Executive Secretary ...

Tagged with: FOIA Judge William N. Alexander II Richmond Circuit Court

In 2015, the plaintiff participated in a group party-bike tour in Richmond. On the return home, she was seated on the back of the vehicle, on the far outside as one faces the driver. The rear bench seat of the ...

Tagged with: Judge Pamela S. Baskervill Personal Injury Richmond Circuit Court Settlement

One Richmond lawyer has filed suit against another claiming she was hurt during the deposition of a personal injury plaintiff. Attorney Brenda L. Page is suing attorney W. Tyler Shands saying Shands slammed her hand in a notebook, causing pain ...

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Plaintiff, 64, underwent elective sigmoid colectomy surgery performed by a general surgeon on Feb. 23, 2015, to correct diverticula and a fistula track that had developed between his cecum and bladder causing frequent infections. The surgery was uneventful and an ...

Tagged with: Judge Beverly W. Snukals Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court

This was a T-bone motor vehicle collision in which the plaintiff was the front-seat passenger and suffered various injuries, including anosmia, a mild-traumatic brain injury and a neuroma to her hip. Only the hip injury and some soft tissue strains ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Richmond Circuit Court

On the night of Aug. 10-11, 2017, two friends, Graham McCormick and J. Randolph “Rand” Hooper went for a boat ride on Carter’s Creek in Lancaster County. The boat belonged to Rand’s father, Gary Hooper, who had given Rand permission ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael C. Allen Million-Dollar Settlements Richmond Circuit Court Wrongful Death

The patient went to the emergency room with complaints of abdominal pain two days after being discharged following the birth of her first child via C-section. A CT scan was read as possibly showing an abscess on her uterus, and ...

Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court

Plaintiff underwent sigmoid resection surgery by defendant surgeon for acute diverticulitis. Plaintiff alleged that the defendant negligently transected her ureter, the urinary duct between the kidney and bladder. Plaintiff’s experts opined that the defendant should have identified, and if necessary, ...

Tagged with: Judge Bradley B. Cavedo Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Richmond Circuit Court

After tripping and injuring herself on her way out of a commercial building, a plaintiff won a $60,000 verdict against the building’s owner. The jury found that the step was in an unsafe condition that the owner should have known ...

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On May 28, 2015, defendant Roger Wilken was driving a tractor-trailer within the scope of his employment with Navigation Inc.; he made a wide right turn from the center lane on Jefferson Davis Highway and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle, ...

Tagged with: Judge Theodore J. Markow Motor Vehicle Collision Richmond Circuit Court Verdict