On this page, we will examine Virginia personal injury lawsuits and their settlement value. We will explain some of the basic rules of tort law in Virginia, such as what types of damages plaintiffs can get and how long they have to file their case. We will also explore the…
This page will look at auto accident lawsuits in Virginia and their settlement value. Our injury lawyers will explain the basic laws in Virginia relating to car accidents, and we look at examples of jury payouts and settlement amounts in recent accident cases. RELATED CONTENT: Virginia Wrongful Death Lawsuits Virginia…
This page focuses on Virginia malpractice law, how these lawsuits work in Virginia, and the settlement amounts and jury payouts victims see in medical malpractice claims. Virginia is a big state, and Northern Virginia is one of the country’s most densely populated metropolitan areas. Thousands of medical malpractice cases get…
This page is about Virginia’s wrongful death law. The purpose is to explain how wrongful death lawsuits work and who is eligible for either settlement compensation or a jury payout. We also explain the second and sometimes equally important cause of action in death cases, a survival action. This claim…
In Funkhouser v. Ford Motor, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld a products liability wrongful death suit against Ford arising from an electrical fire in the Ford Windstar. Facts The facts in this one are just plain awful. Three-year-old twins were playing in their parents’ 2001 Ford Windstar. The engine was…
You get a big verdict. Defendant’s big bone of contention on appeal is an evidentiary issue. When this happens, and it has happened to me a number of times, you are feeling pretty good about your chances. Particularly when the standard is – as it is for most evidentiary issues…
This blog post was originally what I have a the bottom of this post now: a quick summary of a large verdict against IKEA in Virginia. Updating this post in 2020, I realized people would be more interested in seeing sample settlements and verdicts against IKEA than short summary of…
Virginia Lawyers Weekly reports on an insane case in Virginia where an emergency room doctor in Hampton received a defense verdict. After a night of partying, the decedent and his friend got into a dispute over whether the decedent would drive drunk from Hampton back home to Atlanta with his…
The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog has a post on a Maryland Daily Record article looking at how President-Elect Barack Obama might change the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals which includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. I’ve spent far more time thinking about how President Obama will…