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 ...

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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 ...

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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

An employee who collected workers’ comp for a broken leg, and then won a $988,500 jury award for his treating physician’s medical malpractice leading to lung damage from a pulmonary embolism, does not have to pay the employer $22,945.77 on ...

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An employer who paid for treatment of an employee’s broken leg cannot collect on a workers’ comp lien on the nearly $1 million medical malpractice award the employee later won from a Roanoke jury. Michael W. Thompson broke his right ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford R. Weckstein Medical Malpractice Roanoke Circuit Court Workers' Compensation

A woman who alleges she was injured while operating a saddle stitching machine that a Roanoke company obtained from a Japanese manufacturer through its North American distributor cannot sue the Japanese company in Roanoke City Circuit Court; the manufacturer had ...

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