While on a scooter stopped at an intersection, the 20-year-old decedent was struck from behind by a commercial vehicle. The decedent was unmarried and had no children. His five siblings and parents shared the settlement proceeds. [12-T-025] Type of action: ...

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At 10:30 a.m. on May 1, 2008, the decedent, age 80, was brought to the Prince William Hospital Emergency Department by ambulance with complaints of severe back and right hip pain, nausea and vomiting, which had started that morning. Awake, ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Prince William County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

On Jan. 21, 2011, at approximately 8:30 a.m., decedent, the father of the plaintiff, was traveling westbound on U.S. Route 360 in Amelia County. The defendant failed to stop at a stop sign, failed to observe a blinking traffic control ...

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

Decedent was shot and killed during a traffic stop. A jury trial in March resulted in a mistrial because the jury could not reach a unanimous decision. Post-trial interviews of the jurors revealed a 6-1 split in favor of the ...

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A truck driver for a major trucking company fell asleep on Route 15 in Pennsylvania, woke up and applied brakes just before striking and crushing decedent’s VW Passat on Feb. 15, 2007.  Discovery revealed that truck driver had complained of ...

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The plaintiffs alleged negligence by defendant radiologist and defendant obstetricians in their failure to diagnose and to treat in a timely fashion the twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) that the identical twins were experiencing in the womb. As a result, the ...

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The family of a woman who got separated on a care facility “field trip” to The Homestead and died after a fall down some stairs there can ask hotel personnel about the resort’s safety policies and procedures, a judge sitting ...

Tagged with: Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. Personal Injury Roanoke Circuit Court Wrongful Death

The plaintiff’s decedent was involved in an automobile collision and suffered a herniated T-10 disk. A neurosurgeon performed an anterior thoracolumbar fusion surgery to treat the herniated disk several months after the accident. During the procedure, the surgeon damaged the ...

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This was a medical malpractice case involving emergency medical treatment provided to the plaintiff, at the Loudoun Hospital Center on Oct. 30, 2004. At the time of presentation, the ER physician defendant was told that the plaintiff had recently had ...

Tagged with: Judge James H. Chamblin Loudoun County Circuit Court Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death

In what appears to be the final trial court chapter of a tangled Charlottesville legal saga, a judge has imposed $542,000 in sanctions against attorney Matthew B. Murray for hiding evidence and trying to deflect blame for lapses in his ...

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