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#1 Ophelia Brings Flooding to Coastal North Carolina, Virginia
Sep 25 2023 // ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding Saturday after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging...
#2 Family Settles for $8.5M After Man Died While Pinned to Floor at Virginia Hospital
Sep 25 2023 // RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million settlement with...
#3 West Virginia Regulator Wants Input on Surplus Lines Export List
Sep 25 2023 // The West Virginia Office of Insurance Commissioner is accepting comments on potential changes to the state’s surplus lines export list, through Oct. 16. By state law, the office maintains a list of coverages and...
#4 Storm Could Bring Winds, Storm Surge to Carolina, Virginia
Sep 22 2023 // A potential tropical storm, so far unnamed, was predicted to make landfill in North Carolina Saturday, then push across eastern Virginia and Maryland by Sunday. The storm was off the coast of South Carolina and North...
#5 Judge Rules Virginia Teacher Shot by Student Can Proceed with $40 Million Lawsuit
Nov 6 2023 // A teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia can press forward with her $40 million lawsuit against a school system over claims of negligence by school administrators, a judge ruled Friday. The surprise...
#6 Virginia High School Admissions Case May Prompt Next Affirmative Action Ruling
Jul 5 2023 // A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling...
#7 Insurer Berkley Wants Judge in Virginia to Toss $5.8M Jury Verdict Over Mold Claim
Aug 23 2023 // Berkley Assurance Co. is asking a federal judge in Virginia to throw out a $5.8 million jury verdict against it in a case where the insurer maintains a construction firm failed to notify it of its mold claim in a timely...
#8 Virginia School System Says Former Student’s Sex Assault Lawsuit Is a Fraud
Nov 15 2023 // Allegations that a northern Virginia seventh-grader was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted at her school more than a decade ago were totally fabricated, lawyers for the school system contend in a court filing seeking...
#9 Virginia Family Sues School System for $30M Over Student’s Sexual Assault
Oct 12 2023 // A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a northern Virginia school system, saying the district failed to adequately investigate and tried to cover up her sexual assault by a male student in a...
#10 Virginia Judge Says Medical Malpractice Law Does Not Apply to Sexual Abuse Claims
Aug 23 2023 // Most of the claims of sexual abuse and other mistreatment made in a lawsuit by dozens of former patients of a Virginia children`s hospital can move forward, a judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that many of the...
#11 Army Officer Pepper-Sprayed During Traffic Stop Seeks New Trial Against Police
Oct 4 2023 // A U.S. Army lieutenant who was struck, pepper-sprayed and handcuffed during a traffic stop in Virginia asked a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn rulings by a trial judge after jurors found mostly in favor of the...
#12 Florida Quelled Attorney Fees But WV Doctrine is Alive – With Limits
Jul 24 2023 // The Florida Legislature made national headlines late last year when it effectively curtailed one-way attorney fees and greatly limited plaintiffs’ fee multipliers in claims litigation. Property insurers celebrated...
#13 $40M Lawsuit by Virginia Teacher Who Was Shot: Civil Court or Workers’ Compensation?
Jul 11 2023 // Lawyers for a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia can start the process of interviewing eyewitnesses, reviewing the boy`s disciplinary files and accessing other records for a $40 million lawsuit...
#14 Coming and Going, Extended Premises Rules Don’t Help Employee Injured on Crosswalk
Mar 25 2024 // An employee of a diagnostics firm in Virginia who was injured when she fell on a crosswalk on her way to work is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission...
#15 Lawsuit on West Virginia Jail Conditions Has Been Settled
Nov 9 2023 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by inmates who described conditions at a southern West Virginia jail as inhumane has been settled, a federal judge said Tuesday, a week after a magistrate judge said some...
#16 Lawsuit Says Gannett Discriminates Against White Workers to Meet Diversity Goals
Aug 23 2023 // Gannett Co Inc., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, is facing a lawsuit claiming its efforts to diversify newsrooms led to discrimination against white workers. The proposed class action was filed in Virginia federal...
#17 Texas Sues VA Claims Insider for Deceptive Trade Practices Targeting Veterans
Dec 13 2023 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued VA Claims Insider, LLC, (VACI) for engaging in deceptive trade practices to defraud veterans seeking disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. VA Claims...
#18 Insurers to Pay $50M in Settlement Over Abuse at West Virginia Boarding School
Aug 25 2023 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A second lawsuit that alleged widespread sexual, physical and mental abuse at a now-closed West Virginia boarding school for troubled youths has been settled for about $50 million, to be paid...
#19 Lawyers Argue Over Workers’ Compensation for Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old
Oct 30 2023 // Lawyers sparred in a Virginia courtroom Friday over whether a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student should get only workers` compensation for her serious injuries. Abby Zwerner is suing Newport News Public Schools...
#20 ‘Smash-and-Grab’ Robberies Fuel New Laws, but Critics Question the Need
Jan 2 2024 // Even before Virginia lawmakers passed a tough new law against organized retail crime earlier this year, Bradley Haywood, a public defender in Arlington, Virginia, challenged the rationale. The idea that retailers in the...
