Whiplash
Supreme Court of Virginia · 2015
$2,000 to $5,000 each plus $500 punitive; reversed
Joe Lee rear ended the Cains on Route 1 in 2008, pushing them into the car ahead; a roadside breath test read .24 and he pleaded guilty to DUI.
whiplash in Virginia →Whiplash
Supreme Court of Virginia · 2018
Zero damages verdict, affirmed
Debra Shumate was stopped at a traffic light when William Thompson’s sports car hit the rear of her sedan.
whiplash in Virginia →Whiplash
Supreme Court of Virginia · 1999
$230 verdict reinstated
After a car accident, Dewayne Mason claimed $4,431 in special damages.
whiplash in Virginia →Back & spine
Supreme Court of Virginia · 1996
Defense verdict reversed; new trial
Jeffrey Tittsworth was stopped at a parking lot exit in Stafford County when Stephanie Robinson’s car hit the rear of his van after her wet shoe slipped off the clutch.
back & spine in Virginia →Back & spine
Supreme Court of Virginia · 2016
$20,000,000 verdict reversed; judgment for Mazda
Shannon Walters swerved to avoid an object that fell from a pickup truck, and her 1995 Mazda Miata rolled over and landed on its top against a tree.
back & spine in Virginia →Head & brain
Supreme Court of Virginia · 2025
$7,000,000 verdict; appeal ruling reversed
Tamara Al-Saray was a rear seat passenger when the car she was in turned left at a Prince William County intersection and was hit by Sharon Furr, who was driving at about 45 miles per hour.
head & brain in Virginia →Head & brain
Supreme Court of Virginia · 2024
$1,600,000 verdict reversed
In 2017 Patricia Hanger’s blood sodium tested at 122 in the ER, below the normal 133 to 145, and she said she was never told.
head & brain in Virginia →Fracture
Supreme Court of Virginia · 1995
$300,000 verdict, affirmed
Bertha Hubbard left the Roses store where she worked at about 10 p.m. on a dark, rainy, very windy night in 1991.
fracture in Virginia →Fracture
Supreme Court of Virginia · 2009
Summary judgment reversed; case goes to a jury
Doris Fultz was using an ATM inside a Food Lion store, standing between metal bars bolted about five inches off the floor, when her three year old grandson suddenly moved away.
fracture in Virginia →Medical negligence
Supreme Court of Virginia · 2025
$2,000,000 verdict, affirmed
Father Constantine Rogakos, an 86 year old retired priest who walked with a quad cane and had fallen twice before, came for an outpatient ultrasound.
medical negligence in Virginia →Medical negligence
Court of Appeals of Virginia · 2025
$2,500,000 verdict reversed
Elizabeth Bandy’s labor ended in an emergency cesarean in 2021.
medical negligence in Virginia →Workplace
Court of Appeals of Virginia · 2025
Denial of benefits affirmed
Audra Poole, who has multiple sclerosis, parked in a public lot and was halfway across a crosswalk on a public street to her Quest Diagnostics building when she slipped on ice and fractured her wrist.
workplace in Virginia →Workplace
Court of Appeals of Virginia · 2014
Award of benefits affirmed
Elizabeth Wilson, a store manager in Altavista, turned to follow an employee at closing and caught her foot on a stack of water cases in front of a register.
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