Although defendant Travelers Insurance paid for property damage from a fire under a homeowners policy, a Norfolk U.S. District Court says the policy’s Business Pursuits Exclusion and its Rental Exclusion preclude coverage for personal injuries to a renter who alleged ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Rebecca Beach Smith Judge Tommy E. Miller U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court grants plaintiff CGL carrier summary judgment and holds it has no duty to defend or indemnify defendant developer in a lawsuit presently pending in state court for alleged damages caused to adjacent property by land ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A carpenter hired to do trim work on a home under construction was “using” his box van when he left it parked on the property, and a Newport News U.S. District Court says he has coverage under his State Farm ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this action arising out of an alleged bid-rigging scheme among certain European and American companies with respect to rates charged to the U.S. government for transport of military personnel and their families to and from duty posts in Europe, ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Consumer lawyers in Virginia have been mounting an onslaught of legal challenges to foreclosures. Some of their tactics have succeeded, including a challenge based on a HUD lender’s failure to schedule a face-to-face meeting with a homeowner before foreclosure. Another ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Richard L. Williams U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A last-minute effort to mediate a longstanding dispute has cost a developer the benefit of its commercial general liability coverage. Ronald and Joyce Luck complained for almost six years about the degradation of a three-acre pond on their property from ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court refuses to dismiss this Title VII race discrimination claim filed by an African-American furniture store employee who alleges he was terminated when he refused to take a drug-screening test, although a Caucasian employee was not ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After a trial of nearly a month, plaintiff business owner wins an award of $12.4 million compensatory and $4 million punitive damages on his claim of fraudulent misrepresentation against Iraq war contractor Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., but the Alexandria ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A defendant who lost his Woodbridge home through foreclosure has his suit alleging fraud and violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act against multiple defendants dismissed by an Alexandria U.S. District Court. In count I, plaintiff John Horvath claims he ...

Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff who won an injunction and $20,000 in damages in this suit alleging appropriation of plaintiff’s identity as The Flexible Benefits Council, a lobbying organization, can collect attorney’s fees and costs, but the Alexandria U.S. District Court only allows ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District