Plaintiffs’ decedent died two days after suffering burns covering 60 percent of his body in a residential house fire that occurred in Nelson County on Aug. 2, 2009. Plaintiffs retained counsel and considered filing a case shortly after the fire, ...

Tagged with: Nelson County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

The 15-year-old decedent was at home with his parents when a friend of his older brother stopped by the house in his new car. The parents allowed the son to leave with the driver to go for a ride in ...

Tagged with: Bedford County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

A mother of two was killed when the defendant collided head-on with her vehicle as he was trying to pass a tractor-trailer on Route 340 in Rockingham County. The accident occurred on a foggy morning. A witness, who was driving ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Rockingham County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

On March 2, 2012, plaintiff’s decedent, a 41-year-old shipyard worker, presented to defendant hospital’s emergency room at approximately 1:00 a.m. with a history of smoking and a chief complaint of chest pain radiating to his neck/throat with nausea. The pain ...

Tagged with: Judge F. Bradford Stillman Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements Portsmouth Circuit Court Wrongful Death

The infant decedent, nearly 3 years old, and members of her family rented a room at the defendant hotel for an overnight stay at the beach. Hotel personnel assigned the family to an upper-story oceanfront room. The hotel was built ...

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ROANOKE — The manufacturer of a pain medication infusion pump will pay $900,000 and also conduct a review of warnings and instructions on its product in order to settle a lawsuit over the 2011 death of a Roanoke radio figure. The ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Michael F. Urbanski Products Liability Wrongful Death

A jury in Norfolk federal court has awarded $2.5 million for the wrongful death of an 88-year-old man who died in December 2010 when the Ryobi riding lawn tractor he was using caught fire and he burned to death. In an unusual ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Raymond A. Jackson Million-Dollar Verdicts Products Liability Wrongful Death

The future of a $3.5 million lawsuit against an attorney could turn on the foreseeability of the murder of a process server. Harrisonburg lawyer Sherwin J. Jacobs could face a trial where he is blamed for the shooting death of ...

Tagged with: Judge Jane Marum Roush Supreme Court of Virginia News Wrongful Death

On Jan. 9, 2009, the decedent, a 4-year-old pre-kindergarten student, got off his bus at the elementary school to cross the parking lot and go into the school. As the boy was crossing the parking lot to join his classmates ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert W. Curran Million-Dollar Verdicts Southampton County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

The decedent was a 28-year-old female who presented to the emergency department of Sentara CarePlex Hospital on Feb. 1, 2011, shortly after midnight. She complained of having developed episodes of sharp subscapular chest pain (lasting about five minutes) earlier that ...

Tagged with: Hampton Circuit Court Judge Louis R. Lerner Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death