A drugstore that confirmed it had a medication prescribed to a hospital patient on discharge did not “assume a duty” to the patient, a Roanoke federal court has held. When an issue over payment arose, the discharged patient left the ...

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This was a wrongful death case arising out of the negligent care of a minor, disabled child. The family of the deceased child filed this action against the group home and the child’s private school transportation company. A special needs ...

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Decedent was operating his vehicle on a two-lane road. Defendant driver was operating his vehicle on the same road, coming from the opposite direction. The two vehicles collided. Decedent died at the scene, and the defendant driver died at the ...

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On Jan. 31, 2009, decedent, age 38 and Filipino, suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage at home. She had stopped taking her hypertensive medication because she was breast-feeding at the time. She was airlifted from Reston Hospital to Inova Fairfax, where she ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Bruce D. White Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death

The Supreme Court of Virginia has reversed itself and restored a $2.5 million wrongful death verdict, revealing disagreement among the justices on two tort law issues. In an Oct. 31 opinion, two justices switched sides on the question of a ...

Tagged with: Justice Cleo E. Powell Justice Cynthia D. Kinser Justice William C. Mims Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia News Wrongful Death

On Feb. 4, 2013, decedent presented to his primary care physician with cold symptoms and complaints of shortness of breath, dizziness and left calf pain. He was treated for respiratory infection. Decedent returned three days later with continuing complaints of ...

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A six-week-old infant was admitted with a one-week history of projectile vomiting and an ultrasound consistent with the diagnosis of pyloric stenosis. Pyloric stenosis most often occurs between two to eight weeks of age; it is a postnatal thickening of ...

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The decedent was a 33-year-old pregnant woman who presented to a hospital on Nov. 4, 2007, at 41 and 6/7 weeks with ruptured membranes and mild contractions. The defendant obstetrician ordered the administration of pitocin to stimulate labor. Later that ...

Tagged with: Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Susan L. Whitlock Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death

Decedent, a 50-year-old woman, was scheduled to undergo shoulder surgery at an outpatient surgery center. The defendant anesthesiologist planned to provide a regional interscalene block with general anesthesia. He performed the block by administering 40cc of 2 percent mepivacaine (or ...

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

Decedent, a 76-year-old woman, was admitted to a skilled and long-term care facility where she was to undergo physical therapy following hospitalization for aggravation of a pre-existing compression fracture in her spine. Upon admission, she was noted to be alert ...

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