INSURANCE: Actions of driver who drove into parked camp trailer and fired rifle shots at it excluded under criminal act exclusions of home and auto policies and intentional act exclusion of auto policy… Christensen. [Read more…]
$25,000 verdict, t-bone MVA, closed head, lumbar strain
VERDICT: $25,000, t-bone MVA, closed head, lumbar strain, admitted liability. [Read more…]
Slander, Civil Service Reform Act preemption
SLANDER claims improperly dismissed without factual record to determine Civil Service Reform Act preemption of state tort claims alleging false sexual assault assertions by VA union officials… Menahan reversed. [Read more…]
Premature PTD claim involving multiple injuries
PTD claim based on sequelae of 3 injuries is premature for lack of evidence of MMI… TTD claim premature absent mediation… Sandler. [Read more…]
Discrimination, $38,357.70 for “nigger” slurs
RACE DISCRIMINATION: $38,357.70 properly awarded for supervisor’s “nigger” slurs (as opposed to Petitioner’s “my nigga” as term of endearment)… Scrimm/Dayton affirmed. [Read more…]
Disability discrimination, fired injured MDC employee
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION claim by injured MDC employee who failed to cooperate in finding alternative position properly rejected. . . Berger affirmed. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, mining subsidence, apartments
VERDICT: Defense, claimed apartment house damage by historic underground mining subsidence. [Read more…]
Negligence, erroneous autopsy conclusion
NEGLIGENCE: No special relationship between Plaintiff and medical examiner that would create exception to public duty [Read more…]