Decedent was prescribed and ingested Yaz birth control medication. She suffered massive pulmonary emboli and died as a result on March 12, 2008, after using Yaz for only three months. At the time of her death, decedent was in good ...

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The decedent, 63, underwent a five-hour back surgery (laminectomy and fusion) on March 23, 2009, at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Her medical history was significant for obesity, severe obstructive sleep apnea, renal failure, congestive heart failure, hypertension and diabetes. The defendant ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death

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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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