Virginia Lawyers Weekly articles from January 2002

Virginia Lawyers Weekly archives from January 2002

Damages for bad faith could be increased by Virginia bill.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Dawn Chase A bill that would increase damages paid by insurance companies on bad faith claims awaits the General Assembly when it convenes Wednesday. Rep. Terry G. Kilgore, R-Gate City, has proposed that Virginia stop...

Federal judge in Abingdon finds required travel to Chicago to arbitrate not too costly.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Paul Fletcher Even though a Southwest Virginia school board claimed financial hardship in seeking to avoid traveling to Chicago to arbitrate of a claim against its insurance company, the arbitration agreement nonetheless is...

Federal judge in Harrisonburg rules bankruptcy clock starts ticking at first meeting.(Virginia)
January 7, 2002... Byline: John D. Tuerck Where a trustee's office rescheduled the initial creditors' meeting at the debtor's lawyer's request, then held the meeting on the original date for the purpose of continuing the proceeding, that first date starts...

Virginia Court of Appeals Finds 'Self - Executing' Pacts For Support Are OK.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Deborah Elkins Divorcing couples in Virginia may devise their own "self-executing" agreements for child support, according to the en banc Virginia Court of Appeals. "Self-executing" agreements, which allow parents to scale...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: January 7, 2002.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Environmental - Landfill Closing - Abstention - Ch. 11 In this litigation over debtor waste company's effort to keep the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control...

U.S. District Court Virginia Eastern Case Summaries: January 7, 2002.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Habeas Corpus - Capital Murder - DNA Testing - SDT Where a Virginia death-row inmate has filed a motion for a subpoena duces tecum to the custodian of the Chincoteague Police...

U.S. District Court Virginia Western Case Summaries: January 7, 2002.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Homestead Deed - Ch. 7 - Rescheduled Creditors' Meeting Where debtors' lawyer identified several dates when she could not appear for the initial meeting of creditors, and the trustee...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: January 7, 2002.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Child Support - 'Self- Executing' PSA - Emancipation On rehearing en banc, the Court of Appeals holds that a divorce judge erred in assessing a child support arrearage...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: January 7, 2002.
January 7, 2002... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Juvenile - Parental Notice - Baker A defendant convicted as a juvenile of murder in 1993 cannot now overturn that conviction by filing a habeas petition alleging that the juvenile and...

IP verdicts also among Virginia's largest in 2001.(intellectual property)
January 14, 2002... Byline: John D. Tuerck Marking what intellectual-property lawyers described as a "trend," Virginia Lawyers Weekly's survey of the Largest Verdicts of 2001 shows that Virginia juries made three of the biggest awards -- including the...

Verdicts & Settlements January 14, 2002: Three-vehicle collision causes fracture, nerve damage.
January 14, 2002... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Negligence Type of Injuries -- Fracture of the right humerus with internal fixation and radial nerve injury Name of Case -- Lowe v. Boyes Court / Case Number --...