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 ...

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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 ...

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This motor vehicle collision occurred at the Valley View Mall in Roanoke. The plaintiff was riding a Kawasaki Sport motorcycle on Ring Road. At the same time, the defendant and his girlfriend were preparing to leave the mall parking lot ...

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Two people hurt in a crash with a police car have a head start in their cases against the officer, a Virginia judge has ruled. The officer admitted he had been going 36 miles per hour over the speed limit ...

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Claims added to a med-mal plaintiff’s recommenced action after nonsuit, alleging defendant physician failed to assess her fetus’s viability, terminated her pregnancy and left her infertile without advising her of other options, are new claims under the “same evidence” test, ...

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A man who donated sperm to help a friend conceive a child is the child’s legal father, with the right to share joint legal and physical custody with the protesting mother, a Roanoke judge has ruled. The parties had been ...

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A prenuptial agreement is valid and enforceable and prevents defendant, the fourth wife of decedent whom he was divorcing when he died testate, from exercising her statutory rights to take against the will, says a Roanoke City Circuit Court. Defendant ...

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The case involved a 52-year-old Norfolk Southern Railroad locomotive engineer who was injured on May 1, 2011, in the Waynesboro Yard. At approximately 11:00 p.m., he tripped over a metal “joint” bar that had previously been removed from one of ...

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Police officers who discovered defendant unresponsive in his car in a private parking lot near a restaurant, and who ultimately opened his unlocked door and prodded him before he woke up cursing in a slurred voice, did not violate defendant’s ...

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A police officer did not have reasonable suspicion to block defendant’s car in the parking lot of a convenience store after receiving a tip about a drunken driver and the Roanoke City Circuit Court grants defendant’s motion to suppress. No ...

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