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 ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford R. Weckstein Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts Workers' Compensation

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 ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Products Liability Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Defendants who moved for a change of venue in response to an original complaint, but who failed to object to venue when they filed responsive pleadings to plaintiff’s amended complaint that added more plaintiffs, have waived their right to seek ...

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

Although a billboard advertising company says its leasehold on land that has been purchased after condemnation by the Roanoke Redevelopment & Housing Authority has been damaged because the Authority is more likely to terminate its leasehold than would a private ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Real Estate Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Defendant Western Virginia Water Authority is a municipal corporation with no absolute sovereign immunity, and a landowner may sue the Authority for damages allegedly caused by the Authority’s negligent maintenance and operation of a sanitary sewer line; although the Roanoke ...

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