Case Results

Excerpt from Virginia Lawyers Weekly: On May 31, 2009, the plaintiff was walking through the parking lot of a Walgreens store in Richmond. She was struck by an SUV driven by the defendant. An eye-witness subpoenaed to court was prepared to testify that after the plaintiff was knocked to the ground the vehicle continued to …

Excerpt from Virginia Lawyers Weekly. July 6, 2009 – Plaintiff was a passenger in the right rear seat of a vehicle that failed to yield the right of way and was struck on the right side. Plaintiff was flown by helicopter to VCU Medical Center in a coma with several puntate hemorrhages in the right …

Excerpt from Virginia Lawyers Weekly. March 15, 2010 – This claim arose out of an accident involving a minivan being struck by a flatbed tow truck. The plaintiff, a 14-month old infant, sustained a severe traumatic brain injury, which necessitated multiple hospitalizations and treatment and caused permanent physical and cognitive disabilities. A products liability case …

Excerpt from Virginia Lawyers Weekly – 3/5/01 On June 20, 1999, a van driven and filled with employees of Washington Inventory Service Inc., returning to their Richmond office, ran a red light and struck the car in which plaintiff was a passenger. Click here to read the full story.

From Virginia Lawyers Weekly (September 28, 2015) Two recent Virginia deck failure cases each resulted in recovery of nearly all of the property owners’ available $1 million policy limits. In the most recent report, a Petersburg man collected $950,000 for severe injuries suffered when he stepped onto a second-story deck that promptly collapsed. The owner’s …