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

Plaintiff’s decedent, Donald Namuth, was an 82-year-old male, who despite his age, led a very active lifestyle and lived in Freder­icksburg. The defendants, Hands on Truck­ing LLC, had its principal place of business in Baltimore, Maryland and Roane lived in ...

Tagged with: U.S. District Court - District of Maryland Wrongful Death

Decedent, 61, and shooter, Dr. Correll, were both members of WAIDS Hunt Club in Sus­sex County. Both were experienced hunters. On Dec. 30, 2013, the hunt club organized a group deer hunt with the use of hunting dogs. Shooter had ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert G. O'Hara Jr. Sussex County Circuit Court Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s decedent was a 28-year-old fe­male reserve soldier in USAF working for a civilian contractor overseas and her em­ployer shared an office building on a NATO base with a defense contractor. Plaintiff’s decedent suffered a gunshot wound to the head ...

Tagged with: Judge Stanley P. Klein Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

Father, a Virginia resident, was driving on a highway when he entered a work zone and crashed into a large construction vehicle resulting in his death. Plaintiff claimed that the work zone was not properly marked and barricaded in accordance ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Sheridan Wrongful Death

A $1,100,000 settlement has been reached with a western Virginia hospital and emergency room phy­sician for the death of a 27-year-old needle drug-us­ing woman who had previ­ously given up the custody of her two children, ages 12 and 8. The ...

Tagged with: Judge B. Waugh Crigler Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements Wrongful Death

A nurse-soldier who accused her peers at an Army hospital of letting her son suffocate in a mis­handled labor and deliv­ery has won a seven-fig­ure settlement from the U.S. government. The plaintiff was a 26-year-old, active-duty enlisted soldier in the ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Settlements U.S. District Court - Eastern District Wrongful Death

The decedent was inci­dentally diagnosed with a suspected cancerous mass in his pancreas in Septem­ber 2012. The cancer was totally confined within the head of the pancreas, without metastases. The decedent submitted to a pancreaticoduodenec­tomy (also known as a Whipple ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death

The decedent was driving with his wife as the front pas­senger through an intersec­tion on Midlothian Parkway in Chesterfield County when another vehicle, driven by the defendant, entered the intersection at a high rate of speed and struck their vehicle. ...

Tagged with: Chesterfield County Circuit Court Judge Steven C. McCallum Wrongful Death