A Roanoke jury has rejected medical negligence claims against an emergency room doctor after considering whether the patient’s own negligence led to his death. It’s apparently the first use of a contributory negligence jury instruction in a Virginia medical malpractice ...

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

A counterclaim defendant in this suit against Western Virginia Water Authority missed the deadline for filing a responsive pleading, and the Roanoke City Circuit Court enters default judgment against the counterclaim defendant. Plaintiff Elm View LLC initiated this suit against ...

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

The city of Roanoke has sovereign immunity from a suit filed by a woman who injured her shoulder when she tripped and fell as she stepped from the street onto the curb; the Roanoke City Circuit Court grants the city’s ...

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

A former sheriff’s deputy who alleges she was discriminated against and ultimately terminated in violation of USERRA after her multiple deployments and effects thereof is entitled to electronically stored information from seven custodians of defendant sheriff’s office, based on identified ...

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The cyclist was a quasi-professional rider and was traveling on the far right of a residential street when someone yelled at him then either hit him with a car or truck, or someone in the vehicle struck the cyclist. He ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court

A Roanoke City Circuit Court dismisses this petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging claims of ineffective assistance of counsel related to petitioner’s pleas of nolo contendere to felonious child abuse and neglect and second degree felony murder. Petitioner ...

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

A Roanoke City Circuit Court says a habeas corpus petition is not time-barred under Va. Code § 8.01-691, which does not apply to habeas corpus cases. Respondents contend the court cannot consider the merits of this petition because it was ...

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A truck driver for defendant electronic waste disposal business who was injured on the job wins partial summary judgment against the company, which did not comply with Virginia law requiring it to carry workers’ compensation insurance; a Roanoke City Circuit ...

Tagged with: Judge David B. Carson Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts Workers’ Comp

Two Roanoke lawyers combined forces to try a products liability case that produced a $20 million verdict last month for a woman paralyzed in a 2006 car crash. The Oct. 22 verdict is believed to be one of the largest ...

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

A doctor accused of negligence in performing a total abdominal hysterectomy to treat a uterine myoma won a partial victory when a Roanoke trial judge refused to let the woman add new claims to her refiled suit. The legal interpretation ...

Tagged with: Judge David B. Carson Medical Malpractice Roanoke Circuit Court