Finding that a towing operator made misrepresentations in connection with the handling of a wrecked car worth $9,300, a Roanoke judge ordered the company to pay nearly $160,000 under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The owners of the car claimed ...

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In Plaintiff Mediko P.C.’s challenge to procurement procedures by Defendants Roanoke County and Western Virginia Regional Jail Authority, the court permitted certain declaratory issues to move forward but ruled it had no authority under the Virginia Public Procurement Act to ...

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On March 1, 2016, at around 6:06 a.m., the decedent drove his truck to work on Interstate 64 in Rockbridge County. He travelled at the posted speed limit. A tractor-trailer was going up a hill on 64 traveling at a ...

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Although plaintiff’s nonsuit of his personal injury action would have tolled the statute of limitations against defendant driver, who died of unrelated causes before plaintiff filed suit, the limitations period was not tolled against the administrator of the defendant driver’s ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge David B. Carson Roanoke Circuit Court

A chiropractor and his lawyer defending a sexual harassment suit are facing possible sanctions under Rule 4:12 or Va. Code § 8.01- 271.1, for refusing to provide information about a lawyer and/or law firm that supposed­ly provided a “cease and ...

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A Roanoke City Circuit Court sets aside a $4.2 million jury award to the family of a man who was killed while using an industrial forklift; the court is convinced that defendant established that decedent’s contributory negligence and proximate causation ...

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A jury’s $4.2 million award for the family of a man killed in a workplace accident has been overturned by the trial judge, who ruled the victim’s own negligence contributed to his death. The man’s conduct in using an industrial ...

Tagged with: Judge David B. Carson Million-Dollar Verdicts Roanoke Circuit Court workplace Wrongful Death

Decedent was a passenger in a car driven by her hus­band (on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania) coming back from visiting relatives in New York when the defendant crossed the median and struck decedent’s vehicle head on, killing her. The defendant ...

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Distinguishing a similar case, a Roanoke City Circuit Court grants a remodeling contractor’s demurrer in a negligence suit under Va. Code § 65.2-805(A) filed by an employee who was injured when the nail gun he was using discharged a nail ...

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A Roanoke City Circuit Court denies plaintiff estate’s post-trial motion objecting to a jury verdict for defendant emergency room physician, rejecting the estate’s con­tention that the trial court erred in granting defendant a jury instruction on contributory negligence in this ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Medical Malpractice Roanoke Circuit Court