All the cards should be laid on the table for mediation in a wrongful death case, a federal judge has ruled. Even though settlements with peripheral defendants were considered confidential, the plaintiff in the fatal boating accident case was ordered ...

Tagged with: ADR Federal Courts Judge Glen E. Conrad Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s decedent was on a motorcycle, traveling straight on the roadway within the speed limit, when the defendant, an elderly man, pulled out directly into the path of the motorcycle. The collision resulted in the immediate death of the motorcyclist. ...

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

The decedent purchased a modular home from the defendant. During the tornado that hit Gloucester in April 2011, the home was lifted off its foundation, flew through the air for several yards and flew through the garage where the decedent ...

Tagged with: Judge Frederick B. Lowe Million-Dollar Verdicts Wrongful Death York County Circuit Court

Crystal A. Burgsteiner, a 27-year-old wife and mother of two young sons, was driving to her recently acquired job as a house cleaner when her car experienced mechanical problems. She proceeded to pull over safely, very close to the guardrail ...

Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Norfolk Circuit Court Wrongful Death

This medical-malpractice action involved the wrongful death of a 16-year-old high school student in Eastern North Carolina. The parents took the decedent to the emergency room of a local hospital on three successive days with complaints of abdominal pain, nausea ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

A caretaker’s estate cannot recover for her wrongful death from an apparent fall down the stairs of the home where she worked, a Big Stone Gap federal judge ruled on Jan. 15. The estate could not build its case on ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Pamela Meade Sargent Wrongful Death

Decedent was a 58-year-old man who suffered a dislocation of a left hip prosthesis after a fall. After going to the emergency room of a hospital located in the mid-Atlantic region, he was evaluated prior to the necessary orthopedic surgery ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

Plaintiff alleged that the decedent, an 87-year-old female, was dropped from an Invacare Hoyer lift on Aug. 21, 2010. The fall resulted in multiple rib fractures, splenic laceration and ultimately pneumonia that led in continuous sequence until the decedent died ...

Tagged with: Bath County Circuit Court Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. Negligence Wrongful Death

Decedent was 60 years old with five adult children, none of whom was financially dependent.  She had a number of co-morbidities including diabetes, congestive heart failure, hypertension, end stage renal failure, pulmonary edema and morbid obesity. Decedent, however, lived independently ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death

The collision giving rise to the case occurred early in the morning on a cold day in January. Plaintiffs’ decedent was driving eastbound on the Clara Barton Parkway in Maryland when a westbound SUV crossed the median. The vehicles collided ...

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