Michael English was a 22-year-old college student who suffered from schizophrenia. When medicated, he was fine. When he stopped taking his medications, he would act out. In October 2012, during a schizophrenic episode, he attacked a friend. Michael was arrested ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights D.C. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan Wrongful Death

Decedent was a passenger in the rear seat of his own car traveling on the Route 220 Bypass in Henry County, Virginia. The vehicle was struck from behind by a F350 Ford Pickup which was towing a trailer. The decedent’s ...

Tagged with: Henry County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s decedent was a 29-year-old woman who presented to the emergency department at DePaul Medical Center with flu-like symptoms. Her oxygen saturation was noted to be 88 percent on admission and 90 percent at the time of discharge. The decedent ...

Tagged with: Judge Junius P. Fulton III Medical Malpractice Norfolk Circuit Court Wrongful Death

Decedent, age 73 at the time of her death, presented to a hospital emergency department with complaints of having lower back and abdominal pain for the previous three days.  She further complained that her urine had been dark and cloudy ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

A jury’s $4.2 million award for the family of a man killed in a workplace accident has been overturned by the trial judge, who ruled the victim’s own negligence contributed to his death. The man’s conduct in using an industrial ...

Tagged with: Judge David B. Carson Million-Dollar Verdicts Roanoke Circuit Court workplace Wrongful Death

This action arose out of a two-car colli­sion on U.S. 40 in Sus­sex County which is a two-lane highway. The defendant drove off the road on the right, overcorrected, came back across the high­way into the oncoming lane and struck ...

Tagged with: Sussex County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

This case arises from the death of a 42-year-old participant in a tax exempt § 501(c) commu­nity rehabilitation pro­gram or sheltered work­shop. The decedent was known by the program to have a history of sei­zures and it had inter­nal protocols ...

Tagged with: Winchester Circuit Court Wrongful Death

Decedent was a passenger in a car driven by her hus­band (on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania) coming back from visiting relatives in New York when the defendant crossed the median and struck decedent’s vehicle head on, killing her. The defendant ...

Tagged with: Judge David B. Carson Million-Dollar Settlements Roanoke Circuit Court Wrongful Death

This was a motor vehicle accident that occurred in Fauquier County. The defendant contended that he had been at Potomac Mills Mall window-shopping for hours, that he then met up with an old friend and they went to a barbecue. ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Million-Dollar Verdicts Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s decedent was killed in a horrific tractor-trailer wreck on a rural two-lane roadway in western Virginia. The federal motor carrier operating the trac­tor-trailer had a terrible safety and compliance record. The es­tate had received the policy lim­its from the ...

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