This case is the companion follow-up case to a matter called Mann Adm’r v. Emiabata d/b/a Nova Express (see VLW 017-3-408), which also settled for $550,000.00. After settling with the motor carrier’s insurer, the three plaintiffs involved in the Nova ...

Tagged with: Settlement U.S. District Court - Western District Wrongful Death

The decedent, age 62, had been a resident of Covington Manor, an assisted living facility located in Alleghany County, for approximately 20 years. The decedent had suffered from a lifelong history of substance abuse and mental illness which led him ...

Tagged with: Alleghany County Circuit Court Medical Malpractice Settlement Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s decedent was part of a road-work crew. Defendant drove his car into plaintiff’s decedent and killed him. Defendant denied negligence and asserted defenses of unavoidable accident, sudden emergency, assumption of risk, and contributory negligence. The settlement amount represented 100 ...

Tagged with: Prince William Circuit Court Settlement Wrongful Death

On March 1, 2016, at around 6:06 a.m., the decedent drove his truck to work on Interstate 64 in Rockbridge County. He travelled at the posted speed limit. A tractor-trailer was going up a hill on 64 traveling at a ...

Tagged with: Roanoke Circuit Court Settlement Wrongful Death

Boe is the surviving wife of a decedent husband who was 62 years old at the time of his death. The husband presented at his primary care physician with one to two weeks of complaints of shortness of breath on ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

On Oct. 27, 2016, at roughly 6:50 a.m., the decedent, who was in dark-colored cloth­ing, was walking across Quioccasin Road at the intersection of Quioccasin and We­stridge Road in Henrico County. At the location of the incident, there is no ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Motor Vehicle Collision Settlement Wrongful Death

Decedent was law­fully operating his motorcycle south­bound on Interstate 29 near mile marker 47 in Lincoln County, South Dakota. At the same time, defendant was operating a semi-tractor trailer while in the scope of his employment directly behind decedent. Defendant ...

Tagged with: Mediated Settlement Wrongful Death

The decedent was a beloved daughter and sister who was killed in a car crash as a passenger when her vehicle was rear ended by a drunken driver in Norfolk on April 24, 2016. The collision occurred at the intersection ...

Tagged with: John M. Cooper Million-Dollar Settlements Norfolk Circuit Court Wrongful Death

Patient died fol­lowing one cycle of FOLFOX che­motherapy after a diagnosis of Stage IIIB colon cancer. It was later deter­mined that patient had a rare genetic mutation that af­fected his ability to metabolize 5-FU, the active agent in FOLFOX. Adminis­trator ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Gary Hicks Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death

The plaintiff and her mother had driven together to the plaintiff’s gym on May 20, 2014. The plaintiff’s mother, a native and part-time resident of the People’s Republic of China, decided to walk home from the gym at approximately 9:30 ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Settlement Wrongful Death