The plaintiff, a 70-year-old retired police officer/captain, was injured on July 13, 2018, in a motor vehicle collision in Rockingham County. The defendant failed to keep a reasonable lookout and yield the right of way when she pulled out in ...
Tagged with: Mediation Personal Injury Rockingham County Circuit Court Settlement
Read More »This case arose out of the cardiac arrest and subsequent death of decedent, a 75-year-old woman during elective spine surgery. Plaintiff claimed that she suffered cardiac arrest as a result of hypovolemic shock from blood loss during the procedure that ...
Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Rockingham County Circuit Court
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Even though a father had a protective order in place against the mother, a circuit judge still was within his discretion to order joint legal custody of the divorced couple’s child, the Court of Appeals has ruled in a case ...
Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Bruce D. Albertson Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Rockingham County Circuit Court Virginia Court of Appeals News
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A Rockingham County judge last month refused to order an expected 50-50 split of marital assets because of the “egregious adultery” of the husband that undermined the couple’s poultry business. Circuit Judge Bruce D. Albertson instead awarded $500,000 in marital ...
Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Bruce D. Albertson Rockingham County Circuit Court
Read More »In a case where the plaintiff sought $5,520,000, where defense witnesses were prohibited from testifying and where defense documents were excluded from evidence, the defense obtained a defense jury verdict of $0 after a two 1/2 day trial. Plaintiff, an ...
Tagged with: Contract Judge Bruce D. Albertson Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Rockingham County Circuit Court
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An Elkton man has sued Bank of America for a second time claiming the bank has, once again, falsely declared him to be dead. The first time it happened, in 2012, the bank reported the purported death of George J. ...
Tagged with: Bank of America Contract George McClellan Rockingham County Circuit Court
Read More »Defendant, an elderly white female, ran a stop sign and hit the side of the vehicle that plaintiff, a 52-year-old white male, was driving. The vehicle was owned by plaintiff’s employer. The impact pushed the plaintiff’s vehicle onto a curb ...
Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury Rockingham County Circuit Court Tort
Read More »Plaintiff, a 61-year-old female, developed multiple scars on both lower extremities following sclerotherapy (spider vein treatment) performed by a local podiatrist. Plaintiff underwent multiple scar revision procedures which improved the appearance of the scars. The defense admitted liability several weeks ...
Tagged with: John J. McGrath Jr. Medical Malpractice Rockingham County Circuit Court
Read More »Defendant debtors held a fixed property interest in their respective 2015 tax refunds as of midnight on Dec. 31, 2015, and plaintiffs’ liens of fieri facias attached to those funds; the Rockingham County Circuit Court grants summary judgment for plaintiff ...
Tagged with: Creditor's Rights Judge Thomas J. Wilson IV Rockingham County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts
Read More »Decedent was a resident of Mathias, West Virginia, who drove to Harrisonburg every day to work at a chicken processing facility. Early in the morning of Nov. 13, 2014, she was driving eastbound on a windy two-lane road west of ...
Tagged with: Rockingham County Circuit Court Wrongful Death
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