A 32-year-old patient who was 24 weeks pregnant presented to the emergency department with reports of severe abdominal pain, cramping and nausea. She also reported to hospital staff that she had been born with a condition called gastroschisis—a birth defect ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Roanoke Circuit Court

A Roanoke City jury has returned verdicts totaling $9 million against two obstetricians in a birth injury case where the child’s medical expenses have already exceeded the cap for the child’s recovery under Virginia law. The child – now 10 ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Roanoke Circuit Court

A Roanoke City Circuit Court sustains demurrers to plaintiff’s second amended complaint alleging fraud in the inducement and seeking to pierce the corporate veil in negotiation of a loan agreement. The question remains what it has been: Has plaintiff stated ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford R. Weckstein Roanoke Circuit Court Tort Virginia Circuit Courts

An 84-year-old nursing home patient sustained an unwitnessed fall in her bedroom. Plaintiff claimed the fall was caused by the nursing home’s failure to apply and monitor a fall alarm in her bed, which was required by the patient’s care ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Million-Dollar Verdicts Negligence Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court

A Roanoke City jury returned verdicts totaling $6.5 million for an 84-year-old woman injured in a fall at a nursing home. With an award of $5 million in punitive damages, the jury evidently sought to punish the owner of the ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Million-Dollar Verdicts Negligence Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court

On June 13, 2008, Kirk Davis was working as a Remote Control Operator (RCO) in the Roanoke Material Yard when he tripped on a railroad tie, severely twisting his right ankle. His accident was not witnessed. The tie on which ...

Tagged with: Judge Jonathan M. Apgar Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court

A Roanoke jury awarded $4.5 million this month to a 43-year-old former railroad worker who claimed his on-the-job foot injury led to permanent pain and disability. The Feb. 17 verdict came at the end of a five-day trial in Kirk ...

Tagged with: Judge Jonathan M. Apgar Million-Dollar Verdicts Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court

In August 2010, a Southwest Virginia resident was sent to a local skilled-care nursing facility after a knee replacement to receive physical therapy. Upon admission and assessment, nursing staff determined she required a two-person assist on all transfers, and a ...

Tagged with: Negligence Roanoke Circuit Court

In a lawsuit against a long-term care facility that allegedly lost track of a resident who fell down a flight of stairs during a “field trip” to the Homestead Hotel and died 10 days later, a Staunton Circuit Court says ...

Tagged with: Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. Negligence Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The family of a woman who got separated on a care facility “field trip” to The Homestead and died after a fall down some stairs there can ask hotel personnel about the resort’s safety policies and procedures, a judge sitting ...

Tagged with: Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court Wrongful Death