Severity of injuries to elderly plaintiff was issue – $600,000 Settlement
Tractor-trailer and motor vehicle accident along Interstate 95 in Virginia. Case was vigorously defended on grounds that none of the elderly plaintiff’s injuries required surgical intervention, and the...
View ArticleTeacher injured in rear-ender settles – $80,000 Settlement
Plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident on Sept. 3, 2014. Defendant rear-ended plaintiff’s car while it was at a complete stop due to a traffic backup. Plaintiff was taken to ER and soon...
View ArticleMotorcyclist injured by inexperienced driver – $245,000 Settlement
Plaintiff, a shipyard worker, completed his shift at midnight and began his customary journey home on his motorcycle. He was very accustomed to the route to his family home in the country where he...
View ArticleDriver injured in wreck after woman runs stop sign – $1.3M Settlement
Defendant, an elderly white female, ran a stop sign and hit the side of the vehicle that plaintiff, a 52-year-old white male, was driving. The vehicle was owned by plaintiff’s employer. The impact...
View ArticleDriver injured on Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel – $1.5M Verdict
The plaintiff was stopped behind a tractor-trailer, which was also stopped for traffic at the approach to the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel at approximately 10 p.m. on Aug. 20, 2013. The defendant did...
View ArticleWoman injured hip in rear-ender – $240,514 Arbitration Award
This was a rear-end auto collision involving three vehicles. Liability was not contested. The issue involved damages and whether the medical bills and lost wages were caused by the accident. In that...
View ArticleIsle of Wight jury awards $2.6M for car wreck
An Isle of Wight County jury awarded $2.6 million to a man who was injured and had to be cut out of his car after a head-on collision. Jurors in Isle of Wight Circuit Court are not known for handing...
View ArticleSurviving passenger of auto accident settles with driver – $830,000 Settlement
The crash occurred late on Christmas Eve, 2012, on Route 716 in Halifax County. Plaintiff and one other person were riding as passengers in the defendant’s truck. All three were best friends....
View ArticleWorker awarded comp after falling off roof – $1.4 million award
The claimant was working in Harrisonburg at a construction site where a barn was being built. Claimant was working for a small construction company, Escobar Roofing Company, and it was his...
View ArticleCouple injured when car turned in front of them – $445,000 Settlement
Plaintiffs are husband and wife who were involved in a high-impact collision when the defendant, traveling the opposite direction from plaintiffs’ vehicle on two-lane Old Gordonsville Road in...
View ArticlePlaintiff suffered continued numbness in leg after surgery – $150,000...
Plaintiff presented to a neurosurgeon for a consultation regarding protracted lower left extremity pain. An MRI was ordered. The neurosurgeon recommended a decompression laminectomy, bilateral...
View ArticleWoman hurt in rearender continued to have back pain – $175,000 Settlement
A young woman from Yorktown was a front-seat passenger in a vehicle being driven by a friend when the car she was in was hit from behind by a truck on Interstate 64 in Hampton near the Hampton Roads...
View ArticleLimits tendered following suit for dog attack – $300,000 Settlement
On April 3, 2016, the plaintiff, a 58-year-old woman, was walking to work near downtown in the City of Richmond. As she walked along W. Duval Street, she was approached and attacked by two Caine Presa...
View ArticleAssistant steward hurt on vessel after fall on bunk ladder – $500,000...
A 32-year-old assistant steward was working on a vessel owned by the U.S. but operated by a civilian contractor. She was a union employee aboard the ship overseas when she fell in her stateroom while...
View ArticleWoman hurt shoulder in slip-and-fall at dealership – $150,000 Settlement
Plaintiff is a 54-year-old female who was an invitee at Rosenthal Jaguar of Tysons Corner on June 6, 2013. Plaintiff was returning a loaner vehicle and picking up a vehicle recently serviced at the...
View ArticleDog caused 80-year-old man to fall from bicycle – $1,000,000 Settlement
Decedent, a very active 80-year-old, was riding his bike on Aug. 14, 2014 when he passed a neighbor’s house. The neighbor opened their front door which allowed their unleashed and unattended family...
View ArticleEuropean woman, lifeguarding here on visa, rode her bike, was run over –...
This personal injury case arose out of a motor vehicle collision in June 2015 between a tractor-trailer and a bicyclist. The plaintiff was riding her bicycle on the street. The defendant was driving a...
View ArticleWoman hurt ankle in slip on ice, complex had not treated sidewalk – $500,000...
The plaintiff, a resident of a 200-unit townhome and apartment rental complex in Virginia Beach, suffered a severe dislocation and fractures of her right ankle when she fell on snow and ice in a...
View ArticleCondo community had been warned about snakes, woman bit on ankle – $23,000...
A 30-year-old woman was attacked by a poisonous snake just feet outside of her home in a condominium community. She was immediately taken to the emergency room and was there for several hours and...
View ArticleMan pushing disabled car off road hit by passing car – $175,000 Settlement
Plaintiff was operating his vehicle on U.S. 13 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia when it suffered a mechanical breakdown. After pulling the vehicle on to the shoulder of the highway, plaintiff...
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