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Although a Norfolk federal court gave a hearing-impaired plaintiff only $40,842 in back pay at the end of years of litigation and a two-week jury trial, the trial judge has awarded her legal team nearly a half-million dollars in attorney’s ...

Lawyers who once sought stronger firewalls and tighter security to keep the bad guys out of their computer files are now hearing a sobering new message. “The bad guys will get in, and you better plan for the crisis,” was ...

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A patient cannot sue a dentist under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act as part of a dental malpractice claim, a federal judge in Alexandria has ruled. The VCPA claim involved alleged fraud, based on how much the dentist told the ...

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Physicians sued for a child’s birth injuries failed to bring their case into the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Fund in a ruling last month from the Court of Appeals of Virginia. The court’s decision – combined with recent legislation – ...

A physician facing the Virginia Board of Medicine had the right to appear as an expert, the Virginia Court of Appeals said on March 14, but the board’s violation of that right did not spare the doctor from a sanction ...

A Virginia hospital can ask a plaintiff to cover the cost of a hospital employee to assist the plaintiff’s lawyer in navigating an online portal for a client’s medical records, a Norfolk Circuit Court has ruled. Citing federal regulations under ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rerouted a short cut to recovery for some surgery patients. The court ruled this month that a surgeon who mistakenly operated on the wrong level of a patient’s spine cannot be sued for battery. ...

By Michele Satterlund As technology innovations contin­ue to change the healthcare land­scape, Virginia’s policymakers have established a framework that expands access to ocular health­care while putting in place stan­dards to protect eye care patients. Senate Bill 1321, introduced by Sen. ...

As the nation’s courts wrestle with rules for nursing home arbitration agreements, one Virginia lawyer says he’s making arbitration work for his clients in nursing home cases. Not all his colleagues are on board, however. The issue is a familiar ...

A bankruptcy judge in North Car­olina wasn’t wrong when he found that a big insurance company creditor had acted in bad faith. But when he whacked the insurer hard – a claim of more than $10 million was dismissed and ...