Drowning is a fact that owners and those who manage swimming pools must be fully aware of. Those who own and manage pools, to the extent that they have safety personnel …
Dram shop liability in the Fairfax, Virginia area is thought by most lawyers to be a dead letter. Virginia does not impose a duty on vendors to oversee the …
Dog bites and animal bites produce a host of severe injuries. For instance, emotional injury, infections, painful cuts and scarring. If you have been bitten, call us for a free consultation with an experienced injury attorney.
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Company rules are not relevant to prove standard of care. That at least has been the view of the Supreme Court. In Pullen v. Nickens, 226 Va. 342, 350 (1983), the Court said …
We are what we eat. That statement has always been true. It is more pressing now than it has been in the past due to the amount of junk food on the …
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Malpractice Misdiagnosis Presents Issues as To Cause
A doctor’s misdiagnosis may result in injury to a patient. A patient must have a 50% or better chance of survival or recovery in order to prove causation based upon such …
Cruise ship personal injury cases have been the stuff of many headlines. What many people are not aware of is that when they are injured on a cruise ship that …
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Charitable immunity is alive and well in Virginia. The lead case on that issue is UVA v. Morris, 275 Va. 319 (2008). A charity is immune from liability to beneficiaries for acts of ordinary negligence. However the …
Explaining causation to a jury is not easy. In some cases causation may be very simple. In an auto collision case if a person hits his head on a steering wheel and …
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A man in Florida who suffers from brain damage due to a crash caused by a drunk driver was awarded $5 million in his personal injury claim. In 2007 Dwight Grant, a passenger in a …