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 ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Clarence N. Jenkins Jr. Negligence Personal Injury Richmond Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

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

A woman injured in a fall as she left a Richmond law firm has won a $60,000 jury verdict against the owner of the building in the city’s historic Shockoe Slip. Even though a judge blocked the plaintiff from use ...

Tagged with: Judge Bradley B. Cavedo Judge Clarence N. Jenkins Jr. Richmond Circuit Court

Plaintiff was traveling northbound on Interstate 95 when a tractor-trailer changed lanes, striking a third vehicle in its blind spot. That caused that vehicle to strike the plaintiff’s pickup truck, which struck the jersey wall and crossed three lanes of ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Richmond Circuit Court Settlement

Plaintiff alleged in a complaint filed pursuant to the Virginia Torts Claims Act that a report published online by a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia in March 2013 defamed her. The jury found that the defendant had committed ...

Tagged with: Defamation Judge Bradley B. Cavedo Richmond Circuit Court Verdict

A Richmond businessman who said he was jumped and beaten by two men in a 2014 incident managed to shoot both of his assailants and then sued the one that survived. The gun-wielding assault victim won a $95,000 verdict from ...

Tagged with: Judge Tracy Thorne-Begland Richmond Circuit Court

On Jan. 12, 2014, the plaintiff and her family were having lunch at McAlister’s Deli. While at lunch, the plaintiff was seated in an armless chair at a table with her back to the aisle. At that same time, a ...

Tagged with: Judge Donald H. Kent Personal Injury Richmond Circuit Court Settlement

Plaintiff was diagnosed with right trigeminal neuralgia which caused significant pain to the right side of her face. The condition was not adequately controlled with medication and her neurosurgeon recommended that she undergo a radiation procedure known as Gamma Knife. ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Richmond Circuit Court Verdict

A two-day trial that returned a verdict in favor of Richmond police officer Eric Allen on a complaint by plaintiff demanding $300,000 in com­pensatory damages and $300,000 in punitive damages based upon claims of assault and battery, false impris­onment, and ...

Tagged with: Criminal Defense Verdict Judge Beverly W. Snukals Richmond Circuit Court

In the wake of extensive water damage to multiple apartments due to failure of a plumbing valve in a single unit, plaintiff plumbing contractor, a third-party beneficiary of the prime contract between the owner and general contractor, is not entitled ...

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