Because a Virginia statute immunizes a landowner if property is occupied for “recreational use” and the plaintiff benefitted from the charitable purpose of promoting the City of Suffolk, the court found the Suffolk Peanut Festival immune from plaintiff’s injury claim. ...

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Plaintiff, 67, was riding his bicycle on the street in his neighborhood when a 60-pound dog bounded from the property through an electric fence and struck plaintiff’s bicycle, throwing him over the handlebars and injuring his right shoulder. Plaintiff underwent ...

Tagged with: Judge F. Bradford Stillman Personal Injury Settlement Suffolk Circuit Court

Plaintiff’s vehicle was rear-ended by a tow truck on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She was medically evacuated by helicopter to Norfolk General Hospital where she was diagnosed. She suffered a mild traumatic brain injury with personality changes, memory diffi­culty ...

Tagged with: Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Personal Injury Suffolk Circuit Court

A Suffolk circuit judge has acknowledged his normal witness-sequestration order went too far when he barred lawyers in a criminal case from consulting with their own trial witnesses. The decision exonerates Rebecca Colaw, a Suffolk criminal defense lawyer who had ...

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Tracy Epps, a 52-year-old Emporia man, was shot by a hunter as he was riding down the road on a Saturday morning with his dog. As Epps passed by an organized deer hunt operated by the Brink Hunt Club in ...

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

Decedent mother was a 38-year-old resident of Windsor, Virginia, and on Dec. 12, 2014, was seven months pregnant with her baby (aka Henry Wyatt Acree). She left work that evening on her way home from Suffolk to Windsor, traveling westbound ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Suffolk Circuit Court Wrongful Death

A husband who lost his wife and unborn child in an auto accident has reached a $1 million settlement in an apparent case of first impression under a recent amendment to Virginia’s wrongful death statute. The amendment, which went into ...

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Plaintiff was traveling home after visiting with his wife in a local hospital. On his way home, defendant was operating a farm use truck on a dark country four-lane highway. Plaintiff’s car struck the rear of the farm truck at ...

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The plaintiff was a 31-year-old female who presented to the emergency department via EMS with complaints of severe headache, visual loss, dizziness and nausea/vomiting. She reported to the EMS personnel and the ED providers that she had experienced similar symptoms ...

Tagged with: Judge Carl Eason Jr. Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Suffolk Circuit Court

William Hanson sued his former employer, 1 Foot 2 Foot and its owner/supervisor, Dr. Matthew C. Dairman, for wrongful discharge. Hanson’s theory of recovery was retaliatory discharge against public policy, first recognized in Bowman v. State Bank of Keysville, 229 ...

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