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The Virginia Supreme Court recently ruled that an auto accident victim, who signed a "Consent to Treatment" form at the hospital emergency room, after being taken there from the accident scene, could not later "revoke" the provision in the form which assigned...

A Baltimore City jury decided, despite a local Order requiring police on a call to fully stop before proceeding through a red signal light, that the officer was not responsible in this instance. The police officer had her lights and siren activated en route on an...

Two guys went geese hunting in Cecil County, Maryland. As they both stood up to shoot at a goose, something wrong happened (the injured guy says the other guy mis-aimed and the other guy claimed an obstruction in his rifle caused the incident). Regardless of the how,...

These claims against employers in the workplace, measured from 1987 by the group at Metro Verdicts Monthly, reveals that if this is going to happen to you, your best bet for compensation is in Virginia, with the median verdict of $288,300.00, followed by verdicts in...

If you pay your Virginia lawyer with a credit card, and your lawyer passes along the transaction fee to you as a cost, which by the way is legal, the lawyer must disclose that "transaction fee" to you, or the lawyer risks being in violation of Federal Truth-in-Lending...

The Virginia Supreme Court recently ruled that a gentleman who pled guilty to Reckless Driving could not get the "medical benefit" payments on his automobile policy. Pleading guilty equated to an admission that he did something illegal, i.e., driving recklessly, a...

A Montgomery County, Maryland jury awarded a homeowner, who defaulted on her mortgage loan, 1.25 Million Dollars, resulting from the Wells Fargo Bank's loan officer inflating her income and assets on the loan application for the sub-prime mortgage loan the homeowner...

A lady was attacked by a wild goose while a patron at a shopping center on Rockville Pike, in Rockville, Maryland. She claimed the shopping center management should have kept the nesting geese away and should have warned patrons of the aggressive tendencies of the...

Another in the category "what was he thinking?" category. A manager at a Ford dealership in Baltimore installed video cameras in the women's bathroom. Two female employees complained to the management, and then the guy fired them. The case settled for $100,000.00,...

7 children, ranging in age from 2 to 11, were awarded $414,000.00 in damages when their father was killed in an accident. A Fairfax County, Virginia jury made the award stemming from a case where the father was in a van that struck a bus, which was illegally parked on...