Real Estate – Loan Fraud – Innocent Victim
A Prince William County Circuit Court grants a woman possession of her home, free of the $1.1 million in liens her husband placed on the home, as she is the innocent victim of her husband, who is in...
View ArticleAmputation of patient’s legs blamed on tardy surgeon – Defense Verdict
On March 1, 2007, plaintiff underwent a radical neck dissection and laryngectomy for treatment of stage 4 laryngeal cancer. The surgery took approximately 10 hours. The next day, at approximately 8:30...
View ArticleSewer line damaged by optic cable subcontractor – $19,467 Verdict
In January 2007, Lyons Den Underground Inc. was installing fiber optic cables in the plaintiff’s residential neighborhood as a subcontractor to Verizon. After the property of the plaintiff was marked...
View ArticleCourt Stays Decision on Vested Rights
Although the Prince William County Circuit Court has independent authority to decide a vested rights controversy raised by two letters issued by the zoning administrator, the court chooses not to...
View ArticleNo Maryland Damage Cap in Virginia Case
In this auto-accident case, a Prince William County Circuit Court declines to apply the Maryland cap on non-economic damages because the court finds the cap does not affect substantive rights in a...
View ArticleCourt Reconsiders ‘Vested Rights’ Case
In this suit in which the court earlier made rulings involving vested rights [VLW 011-8-195], the Prince William County Circuit Court now grants motions for reconsideration, in part. I have concluded...
View ArticleInterview With Carrier Is Protected Work Product
A plaintiff’s assertion that defendant driver pleaded guilty to a traffic infraction but now contests liability in this auto-accident personal injury suit has not shown a substantial need to obtain a...
View ArticleParents who lost son denied visits with grandchild
A mother could cut off contact between her two-year-old son and his paternal grandparents, whose own son had joint custody of the child, but who died in an auto accident when the grandson was barely...
View ArticleReligious Belief No Basis for Incompetency
A Prince William County Circuit Court holds that defendant has not met his burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that he is not competent to stand trial on criminal charges; the court...
View ArticleWoman sued store for leg injury caused by employee – $2.2 million verdict
Plaintiff, a 35-year-old female, suffered a catastrophic injury to her leg on Aug. 3, 2015, at defendant’s store when two slabs of granite fell on plaintiff ’s leg due to the store employee’s...
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