Your plaintiff is the family of a Mexican national from North Carolina, killed in an auto accident, and you’re stuck with a Virginia jurisdiction with a reputation for conservative jurors. If those circumstances sound daunting, consider a second case. Your ...

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At approximately 1:45 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2009, Kenneth Taylor, driver of a 2005 Nissan Murano, and his wife, the passenger, were involved in an automobile accident with defendant, who was driving a 1997 Ford Expedition. The Taylors were traveling ...

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On Feb. 24, 2009, decedent underwent rotator cuff repair surgery. In the early hours of Feb. 25, decedent complained of severe abdominal pain and he was noted to be hypotensive. Decedent’s nurse notified the hospitalist who ordered Protonix and Maalox. ...

Tagged with: Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Donald Haddock Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death

On Jan. 24, 2006, Dr. Salvatore Culosi, a 37-year-old optometrist, was shot and killed outside his home by a Fairfax County SWAT officer while he was being arrested for sports betting. The police department knew that Culosi had no criminal ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Federal Courts Judge Leonie Brinkema Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s decedent was admitted to defendant’s adult assisted living facility on Oct. 22, 2008, at 11:45 a.m. for a five-day stay for respite care, with the following diagnosis: mild to moderate dementia and Alzheimer’s, right below-knee amputation with prosthesis, left ...

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Defense lawyers have come out swinging with a scathing set of post trial motions attacking the plaintiffs’ lawyer who scored a record-setting Charlottesville wrongful death verdict. Matthew B. Murray of Charlottesville won an award of more than $10.5 million for ...

Tagged with: Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire Million-Dollar Verdicts Wrongful Death

Defense lawyers hope to undo a monumental verdict claiming a juror had ties to a plaintiffs’ law firm. A Charlottesville jury last month awarded more than $10.5 million to family members of a woman fatally injured when a concrete mixer ...

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The family of a man killed by a police officer has settled their lawsuit with Fairfax County for $2 million. Scientific evidence cast doubt on a police officer’s story about how he shot and killed Salvatore Culosi, a suspected gambler. ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Leonie Brinkema Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

The 24-year-old decedent went to the defendant doctor with chest pain and a cough. He was diagnosed with chestwall pain and prescribed a narcotic pain reliever. The decedent returned the next day with complaints of increased chest pain and spitting ...

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The 19-year-old decedent was riding an all-terrain vehicle when he encountered a wire cable that the Loudoun County Sanitation Authority had strung across a gravel roadway. Decedent apparently did not see the cable, struck it and died. The gravel road ...

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