On Dec. 11, 2016, the 83-year-old plaintiff went to lunch with her family at a Richmond area restaurant after church services. Shortly after checking in at the hostess stand, the hostess asked the plaintiff and her party to follow her ...

Tagged with: Judge Catherine Hammond Premises Liability Richmond Circuit Court Settlement

Although a consumer lender imposed interest rates in violation of certain statutes, the commonwealth cannot sue it under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act because the lender falls within the Act’s exclusion as a small loan company. Background Allied Title Lending ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Theodore J. Markow Richmond Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

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