Last week in Massachusetts, a court awarded $32 million in a case in which a 43-year-old shopper was killed inside a convenience store when an 81-year-old driver crashed through the front wall of the store at high speed. The decedent’s family sued…
Unraveling the Complexities of Multiple Coverage Fred and Mary were longtime residents of Northern Virginia who were getting ready to retire full-time to Florida. They had fixed up their Reston home to sell and had bought a house on the…
CASE FACTS On a Friday afternoon, at a busy intersection in Fairfax County, Virginia, a heavily loaded utility van ran a red light at high speed and struck a Cadillac sedan in a t-bone collision, throwing it 30 yards from…
CASE FACTS This case concerned the inappropriate use of the anticonvulsant drug Dilantin by the defendant neurosurgeon, Dr. John Smith, M.D., causing a severe allergic reaction to his patient, Jane Jones. The reaction, called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, led to scarring of…
CASE FACTS It was a beautiful summer evening in late May. Becky, who had lived in Virginia for only a week, was on her way to the store. As she approached a 4-way intersection she slowed to a stop, then…
CASE FACTS Bill was new in town. A recent transfer from Michigan State, he’d arrived in Richmond just a few weeks before with the goal of finishing up his last two semesters of college. Tall, lean and good looking, he’d…