Plaintiff, 23 at the time of the accident, struck defendant’s vehicle while riding his motorcycle on Roanoke’s Shenandoah Avenue on a clear July afternoon. The accident happened when defendant pulled out from a stop sign on a side street into ...

Tagged with: Judge William D. Broadhurst Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court Verdict

Where a contract with a funeral home gave two individuals authority to receive the decedent’s cremains, the funeral home did not breach the contract by giving both urns containing the cremains to only one of the named individuals. Overview Plaintiff ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Judge Christopher Clemens Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Roanoke funeral service appears likely to escape liability in a lawsuit over its handling of a decedent’s cremains in the face of family hostility. A judge’s ruling could bar recovery for a Roanoke woman who said the funeral home ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Christopher Clemens Roanoke Circuit Court

Where an insurance company consistently advised a repair shop that it would pay the standard hourly rate to repair hail damage to the insured’s vehicle, the insured has not shown that an enhanced rate was reasonable and necessary to make ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge David B. Carson Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff underwent an anterior cervical discectomy, osteophytectomy and arthrodesis C3-4, C4-5 and C5-6 using intervertebral disc spacers and an anterior cervical plates extending from C3-C4 to C5-6. After finishing at C3-4, the defendant neurosurgeon turned his attention to the C4-5 ...

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

Plaintiff bidder, who challenged defendant county’s decision to award a jail healthcare contract to another bidder, is not entitled to additional relief after the county canceled the award and withdrew the bid proposal. The demurrer, filed by the county and ...

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

Even though defendants, for purposes of their plea in bar, have offered to stipulate to all the facts plaintiff has pleaded in the complaint, this is not a basis to deny plaintiff’s request for a jury trial. A jury will ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Charles N. Dorsey Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff developed ORN following a difficult tooth extraction by the defendant. During the extraction, the plaintiff’s jaw was fractured but this was not discovered until many weeks thereafter, at which time he was also diagnosed with Stage III ORN disease. ...

Tagged with: Judge Diane McQuade Strick­land Medical Malpractice Roanoke Circuit Court Settlement

A defendant is obligated to pay a settlement because a question raised by plaintiffs after they accepted the defendant’s offer was not a new term. Background On May 19, 2017, defendant’s former attorney, Jonathan S. Kurtin, sent a letter to ...

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

On May 3, 2016, a 19-year-old man was visiting his sister’s apartment, and started to walk down an outdoor stairway to the deck of the apartment below. As he was about halfway down, he stopped to pet a neighbor’s dog ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court