Virginia Lawyers Weekly articles from August 2005

Virginia Lawyers Weekly archives from August 2005

Virginia Lawyers Weekly has new news editor.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Alan Cooper, a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader for 33 years, has joined Virginia Lawyers Weekly as news editor. Cooper covered the Richmond and Chesterfield...

Va. Court of Appeals considers two cases about one couple.(cases)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper George and Elisa Robinson lived together as man and wife for less than three years, but their marriage may prove to be one of the best documented unions in Virginia court cases. Their convictions for contributing to...

Virginia Court of Appeals reverses sheriff's contempt conviction.(cases)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper A sign went up. It was taken down the same day. It was replaced and taken down again that day. The person who posted the sign went the next day to the one who took it down and demanded its return. The person who...

Spammer's lawyers to test constitutionality of Virginia statute.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper Virginia has the toughest anti-spam law in the country. It's so tough, in fact, that it's unconstitutional, attorneys for Jeremy Jaynes argue in their petition for appeal filed with the Virginia Court of Appeals....

U.S. District Court VA Western Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Social Security Limitations - Equitable Tolling Telephone notice to a claimant's attorney about the final decision of the Appeals Council on his claim started the running of the statute of...

Car dealership asks arbitrator to reconsider $2.5M award.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Paul Fletcher A Southwest Virginia car dealership that was ordered by an arbitrator to pay $2.5 million to an injured state trooper has asked the arbitrator to reconsider and to explain the basis for his award. In the case, a...

Celebrating John Marshall's 250th anniversary.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Brent Baldwin "If American law were to be represented by a single figure, skeptic and worshipper alike would agree without dispute that the figure could be one alone, and that one, John Marshall."Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....

Commentary: Before lawsuits rain down on you, consider buying an umbrella.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Frank Rapisarda (This article originally ran in The Daily Record, Baltimore, MD, another Dolan Media publication). Millions of lawsuits are filed each year in the United States against individuals in all walks of life as the...

Virginia Lawyers in the News: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Stephen W. Burke and Thomas E. Knauer have returned to Williams Mullen, joining the firm's Richmond office. Burke is a partner in the firm's business and corporate finance & securities sections. Knauer...

U.S. Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Fees - Unresolved Claim - Final Decision A claim for legal fees based on a contractual provision that is not limited to expenses incurred during the underlying litigation is an...

Therapist can't testify in custody case, Va. Court of Appeals rules.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Deborah Elkins A mother can keep her children's therapist from testifying about her name-calling and denigration of the father in front of the children, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled in a custody case out of Northern...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Dischargeability Of Debt - Legal Fees A woman's debt to creditor law firm, her former legal counsel, is nondischargeable pursuant to 11 U.S.C. Sect. 523(a)(2)(A), based on the...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Dischargeability Of Debt - Student Loan - Undue Hardship Debtor parents who funded their emancipated daughter's college education with student loans have not demonstrated "undue...

Virginia Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: August 1, 2005.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Courthouse Security - Sheriff - Contempt Order Although a circuit court judge had authority to find a sheriff in contempt for refusal to comply with court orders requiring a deputy...

New poll tracks how much time is wasted on the job.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Paul Fletcher How much time do you waste during the work day? Human Resources professionals, who track such things, expect employees to spend 0.94 hours of an eight-hour workday on tasks unrelated to their jobs, even though...

Commentary: The Write Advice: Improve your communication skills.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Christy Hall Benson Good writing is essential in order to achieve success in the legal profession. With every memo, pleading, letter or e-mail, your firm or company's reputation is on the line. One typo-prone attorney in...

Paralegal pay covered in recent surveys.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Deborah Elkins Paralegals, like lawyers, know that it pays to specialize. Paralegals who are experts in a particular field will reap the reward for their expertise. Recent salary surveys confirm this common-sense observation....

Commentary: Paralegals' added value can enhance the image of a law firm.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Linda S. Jevahirian Once thought of as being outside the conservative field of law, marketing of legal services is now an accepted - and necessary - practice. One often-overlooked asset is the paralegal. Rounding out the full...

U.S. Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: Aug. 8, 2005.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Parade Permit - Small Groups - Sunday Ban Provisions in a South Carolina city parade ordinance that require a permit for small gatherings of two or three, and that ban Sunday...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: Aug. 8, 2005.(Virginia)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Legal Malpractice - P.I. Suit - S.C. Lawyer - Personal Jurisdiction A South Carolina lawyer and law firm are subject to a Virginia federal court's jurisdiction in this legal...

U.S. District Court VA Western Case Summaries: Aug. 8, 2005.(Virginia )
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Batson Claim - Race- Neutral Strikes - Male's Earrings A defendant convicted of a drug-related weapons offense is not entitled to a new trial on his claim that the prosecution racially...

VA Court Of Appeals Case summaries: Aug. 8, 2005.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Sentencing Recommendation - Plea Agreement Although defendant contends the prosecutor breached a plea agreement by failing to argue for a sentence no greater than the mid-point...

Tension in views of VA Indigent Defense Commission's role led to chief's ouster.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper The resignation of Richard C. Goemann as executive director of the Indigent Defense Commission had more to do with differing perceptions of the agency's role within the commission than it did with Goemann, according to...

VA Court of Appeals rules attorney's 401(k) not part of pool for support.(Virginia)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff A trial judge properly excluded a lawyer's mandatory pension and capital contributions to his law firm in applying Virginia's child support guidelines, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled last week. ...

Signature on Family and Medical Leave Act waiver won't be enough.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper A ruling that employees cannot waive their FMLA rights without court or administrative approval would change the way companies deal with Family and Medical Leave Act situations. That's the conclusion of three...

S.C. lawyer can be sued for malpractice in Virginia federal court.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Paul Fletcher A South Carolina lawyer who contracted to represent a woman in a lawsuit based on an auto accident in Norfolk can be sued for legal malpractice in Virginia federal court. Even though the lawyer doesn't solicit...

VA State Bar Disciplinary Actions Case Summaries: Aug. 8, 2005.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Bruce W. McLaughlin of Leesburg has petitioned the Supreme Court of Virginia for reinstatement of his license to practice law. The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board will hold a hearing on Aug....

Alexandria goes wireless in Old Town.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff With a large American flag hanging in the background, Alexandria officials declared their independence Tuesday from wired Internet connections. They cut a symbolic wire in front of City Hall to...

VA Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission suspends judge.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper B. Bryan Milbourne, the only juvenile and domestic relations district judge on the Eastern Shore, has been suspended while he is being investigated by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission. The investigation...

VA Lawyers in the News: Aug. 8, 2005.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey Bryant has been elected chair of the Virginia State Bar Criminal Law Section. The section is the VSB's second largest, with a membership of over 2,000...

Past president of VA Bar Assn., Vernon M. Geddy Jr., dies at 79.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Vernon M. "Bud" Geddy Jr., a past president of the Virginia Bar Association and former mayor of Williamsburg, died June 27 of cancer. He was 79. Mr. Geddy was a lifelong resident of Williamsburg....

Verdicts & Settlements (August 8, 2005) Hospital prevails on broken-elbow claim.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was an 87-year-old female who was admitted to the defendant hospital for a suspected broken hip. During the course of her admission, she was diagnosed with a fractured right elbow. The...

Verdicts & Settlements (August 8, 2005) Doctor wins 1st trial held in high-tech courtroom in Fairfax.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The case involved an allegation of negligent management of a patient presenting to an emergency department in atrial fibrillation and rapid ventricular response, with a history that included a syncopal...

Verdicts & Settlements (Aug.8, 2005) Failure to monitor patient case settles for $1M.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff In June 2002, the decedent underwent cardiac catheterization at the defendant hospital due to the recent onset of chest pain and a positive stress test. The procedure was completed at 3:30 p.m., and...

Verdicts & Settlements (Aug. 8, 2005) Car-tanker collision results in $1.2M settlement.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff On Sept. 27, 2000, a 75,000 pound Baltimore Tank Liners tanker hauling 7,000 gallons of Number 2 fuel oil crossed over the center line of Route 17 in Fauquier County, and struck the plaintiff's car...

Verdicts & Settlements (Aug. 8, 2005) Doctor prevails in med-mal claim arising from cyst removal.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff was a 47-year-old female who had a 20cm x 20cm x 8cm size cyst that was adhered to her colon and pelvic wall. The cyst contained approximately 1 liter of fluid and was able to be carefully...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 15, 2005.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Child Protective Services - Sexual Abuse - Founded Complaint A circuit court did not err in dismissing a child protective services' founded complaint of sexual abuse because the...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: August 15, 2005.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Reasonable Fees - Interest A circuit court awards attorney's fees of $47,000 and pre- and post-judgment interest under Va. Code Sect. 55-80 on a $56,250 judgment. In...

Verdicts & Settlements August 15, 2005: Death case from collision with farm equipment settles.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The decedent, a 68-year-old, was killed instantly when his pickup truck struck a piece of farm equipment being towed behind a tractor, operated by the defendant on a dark, two-lane road at night. The...

Verdicts & Settlements August 15, 2005: Wrong-way driver hit for $350K jury verdict.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff In this case, the defendant began consuming large amounts of alcohol, including two beers and a fifth of Hennessy Cognac, at 11:00 a.m., and continuing throughout the day on July 29, 2000. In a state of...

Verdicts & Settlements August 15, 2005: Child injured in Hanover car wreck settles for $4.25M.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was an 18-month-old child when the vehicle in which he was a passenger was struck from behind by a commercial truck on Route 360 in Hanover. Immediately after the collision, plaintiff was...

Verdicts & Settlements August 15, 2005: Injury in railroad yard nets $650K verdict.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff, a conductor trainee, was riding on the side of a car rolling through the Pinners Point Yard in Portsmouth. A hostler truck owned by CSX Intermodal Inc. pulled onto the track in front of the...

Audio record needed for abuse finding, Virginia Court of Appeals finds.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper The failure of a child protective services investigator to audiotape a 14-year-old girl's allegation of sexual abuse could not be dismissed as "mere harmless error," a divided panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals...

Commentary: Family court returns: Panel readies proposal for new court.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper The family court proposed for Virginia would be a court of record for civil proceedings such as divorce and adoption but a court not of record for the trial of juveniles on criminal charges. The judges of the court...

Arlington County Circuit judge says doc's policy denial letter not notice to practice.(Estate of Laura Feury v. Princeton Insurance Co.)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Deborah Elkins A doctor's med-mal carrier cannot deny coverage for a $1.4 million judgment by pointing to either its reservation of rights letter to the doctor, or to the doctor's criminal act underlying the medical negligence. ...

Trucker's foot injury nets $2.5M in Virginia court.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper A focus group helped Richmond personal injury lawyer John C. Shea develop a winning theme for both liability and damages in the case of a woman trucker whose foot was injured badly in a truck stop accident. A...

Former General District Judge Frederick Combs II dies.(Obituary)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The Honorable Frederick Harmon Combs II, former General District Court Judge of 20 years for the 29th District of Virginia, died on Aug. 7 from injuries sustained in a tractor accident. Judge Combs...

Virginia State Bar senior lawyers advocate Walter W. Regirer dies at 91.(Obituary)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Walter W. Regirer, who as a young lawyer moved from Poland to America to become a lawyer here and a leader in the adult-care field, has died at age 91. A founding member who served as chair of both...

Commentary: How modern litigation support tools help make your case.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Chris Santella (This article originally ran in Michigan Lawyers Weekly, Detroit, MI, another Dolan Media publication). Not long ago, the phrase "litigation support software" conjured up images of a clumsy database residing on a...

U.S. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 15, 2005.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Discrimination Title VII - Race - CIA Operative - 'State' Secrets Doctrine' A Title VII race discrimination suit filed by an African American operations officer in the CIA's Near...

Fairfax County General District judge rules DUI law unconstitutional.(driving under influence)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper Corinne Magee didn't enter the courtroom of Fairfax County General District Judge Ian M. O'Flaherty with a lot of hope for her drunken driving defendant. The legal argument she was relying on was based on a...

Virginia lawyers win ABA awards for juvenile work.(American Bar Association )
August 22, 2005... Byline: Brent Baldwin Two Virginia lawyers were honored at this month's American Bar Association meeting in Chicago with awards recognizing their work for juvenile justice. Charlottesville attorney Andrew K. Block Jr. received the...

VA State Bar's legal ethics committee considers whether client's files can be kept electronically.(Virginia)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Paul Fletcher When the Rules of Professional Conduct were under discussion by the Virginia State Bar in the late 1990s, the rules about client's files were some of the most thrashed over. Indeed, the VSB's Standing Committee on...

Fairfax County judge sets aside $1.8M jury verdict in brain injury case.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper A Fairfax County Circuit judge has set aside a $1.8 million verdict in a mild traumatic brain injury case after concluding that the plaintiff had failed to show that the woman responsible for a car wreck was acting in...

Small firms use innovative billing to create lucrative business litigation niche.(contingency fees)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Bill Ibelle (This article originally ran in Lawyers Weekly USA, Boston, MA, another Dolan Media publication.) Business lawyers don't do contingency fees. Or do they? It may not be a full-fledged trend yet, but in a...

VA Lawyers in the News: August 22, 2005.(Virginia)(appointments)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Virginia Beach lawyer Richard N. Shapiro was elected the 2005-2006 chairman of the Railroad Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America at ATLA's annual convention last month in Toronto. ...

U.S. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Constitutional - Establishment Clause - School Pledge A Loudoun County public school that provides for daily, voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance does not violate an...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Admiralty Slip & Fall - Limitation Of Liability A motor tugboat deckhand who was injured when he slipped on a stairway leading into the engine room has shown genuine issues of material fact...

U.S. District Court VA Western Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Police Officer Termination - First Amendment - Defamation A former police officer has stated a claim that he was terminated in retaliation for his discussion of matters of public...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 22, 2005.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Evidence - Hearsay - Adoptive Admission Exception A defendant who left the scene of a drug-related shooting and robbery and went to the home of a participant in the crime, and who...

Verdicts & Settlements-August 22, 2005: Doctors prevail in suit by parents of infant who died.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiffs were the parents of and administrators of the estate of an infant, and alleged that their daughter received negligent neonatal care. The plaintiffs specifically alleged that the...

Verdicts & Settlements-August 22, 2005: Scope of consent at issue in med-mal case.(Medical malpractice)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff, a 38-year-old female, was seen by the defendant gynecologist for complaints of pelvic pain and a large fibroid uterus. The defendant advised plaintiff to undergo a total abdominal...

VA Court of Appeals rules in joint custody case of 7-year-old girl.(Virginia)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper A trial judge did not have to find a father was an unfit parent to award joint custody of the father's daughter to her maternal grandfather, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled last week. But a unanimous panel...

Woman wins $1.5M from Salem plastic surgeon.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper Attorneys for a Salem plastic surgeon acknowledged that the breast reduction surgery for Ann Shorter went terribly wrong. So wrong that she went from "a 46DD to a flat chest" and required breast reconstruction...

Edmonds to lead bar executives in Virginia.(Thomas A. Edmonds)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper Thomas A. Edmonds works for the Virginia State Bar Council and supervises the office of State Bar Counsel. The homonyms create confusion for bar outsiders, and sometimes for insiders as well, but the distinction is...

VA. COA rules Norfolk judge did not err in trying case of defendant who sought to avoid him.(Virginia Court of Appeals, Charles D. Griffith Jr.)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Deborah Elkins A Norfolk trial judge who admonished a local lawyer for "judge-shopping" and removed him from the court-appointed counsel list did not err in trying the case of the defendant who apparently sought to avoid him, the...

Location, Location, Location -- prison for sale in Virginia.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Last month we noted that the state is selling lighthouses in the eastern part of Virginia. If that doesn't float your boat, you wanna buy a prison instead? Imagine this real estate listing in Isle...

Life Imitates Art: Forrest Gump wannabe.(Jonathan Williams runs across the country)(Brief Article)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Step in the Wayback Machine. Dial, oh, about 11 years ago. Remember the phenomenon that was the Tom Hanks movie "Forrest Gump"? A kajillion movie tickets sold. Several hit soundtrack albums of oldies....

Gasoline thieves caught red-handed in Indiana.(Brief Article)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Okay, gasoline is nearly three bucks a gallon. All year long we've been featuring stories in the "Daily Alert" about drive-offs, in virtually every corner of the commonwealth. Couple of guys in...

Virginia Lawyers in the News: August 29, 2005.(appointments)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Newport News lawyer Leonard C. Heath Jr. has been reappointed by the Virginia State Bar as a member of the Standing Committee on Legal Ethics for the year 2005-2006. Heath is a member of the firm...

Fairfax County Circuit Judge rules man may not be child's father, despite lab's call of 99.99%.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper Fairfax family law specialists Glenn C. Lewis and Doug Levy were skeptical when Andre Chreky insisted that he was not the father of Adele Doudaklian's son. A DNA test from Laboratory Corp. of America, better known...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: $3.4 million awarded in wrongful death of dentist.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Brent Baldwin The family of a 43-year-old dentist who died after taking an experimental medicine for emotional difficulties has been awarded $3.4 million by a Fairfax Circuit Court jury. The plaintiff alleged that the...

Virginia Beach circuit judge rules developer must forfeit $400K.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Paul Fletcher A developer that wanted to build a "big-box" shopping center in Virginia Beach must forfeit $400,000 it paid in earnest money after the deal fell through. In a contest of arguments about who breached the contract...

VA. Court of Appeals rules refinancing didn't transmute husband's separate property.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Alan Cooper Refinancing a house does not necessarily preclude tracing separate property or result in an independent transmutation of separate property into marital property, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled last week in what it...

Retired VA. Court of Appeals Judge Marvin F. Cole dies at 83.(Virginia)(Obituary)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Retired Senior Judge Marvin F. Cole, one of the first judges to serve on the Virginia Court of Appeals, died following a stroke Aug. 20. He was 83. A native of Buckingham County, Judge Cole played...

U.S. Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: Aug. 29, 2005.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Immigration Removal Order - Aggravated Felony - Credit Card Fraud An Egyptian national can overturn a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ordering her removal to Egypt based on a...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: Aug. 29, 2005.(Virginia)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Motorcycle Dealer Law - Commerce Clause Violation A motorcycle dealership that invoked a Virginia statute to initiate a protest to a manufacturer's decision to open a new area...

Virginia Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: Aug. 29, 2005.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Burglary - Grand Larceny - CD With Handwriting At defendant's trial for theft of various items, the trial court did not err in admitting into evidence a "burned" CD found in a stolen...

VA. Circuit Court Case Summaries: Aug. 29,2005.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Jurisdiction - Church Dispute - Pastor Termination A Baptist pastor cannot sue members of the congregation that voted to terminate him for willful and malicious injury to his...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: Patient gets $1.5M: Too much skin removed in during surgery.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff, Ann M. Shorter, age 60, was referred to Dr. Carol A. Wray in 2000 for evaluation and removal of a benign lipoma from under her right arm. During this course of treatment, Dr. Wray...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: Female trucker with crushed foot wins $2.5M.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was a 33-year-old female tractor-trailer driver. The defendants were Leon Thompson, a tractor-trailer driver, and his employer, Super Service Trucking, Inc. On Oct. 27, 2003, at...

Verdicts & Settlements August 29, 2005: $3.4M awarded for death of dentist after taking medication.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Plaintiff's decedent was a 43-year-old dentist, married and mother of three children - 10, six and four years old. She had sought treatment from the defendant for emotional difficulties. Plaintiff...