Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

• Liability of nightclub/bars for drunken patrons

  Emily Mapp Brannon | September 16, 2008 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  As a busy Virginia personal injury attorney, I was recently pondering about a case I have against a Norfolk nightclub/bar. Here is the scenario. My client is in the bar minding his...

• Woman Files Lawsuit For Slip and Fall In Store

  Chrissie Cole | September 05, 2008 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  A Kanawha County woman that slipped and hit her head in a local grocery store has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit was filed August 1 in Kanawha Circuit Court...

• Amusement Parks and Lawsuits

  John Cooper | July 22, 2008 2:11 PM | 5 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  As a parent and an injury lawyer, I am amazed and scared by the threats posed to the public at theme parks. On June 29th, 2008, a 17 year old boy climbed two six foot fences and strolled into a...

• Electrical Shock Injury In Hotel Shower Ends Commercial Pilot’s Career--Settlement Just Before Trial

  Rick Shapiro | July 08, 2008 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Should a hotel guest (here a commercial airline pilot) ever receive a severe electrical shock during a hotel shower? We think not, and here the effects of the shock adversely affected our client's eyesight and caused muscle weakness and other symptoms that ended our client's piloting career with a major airline, causing loss of his career, and massive earning losses. Our challenge was to prove how and why the shock occurred.

• Contract Security Firm May be Liable for Injury

  Ben Glass | January 07, 2008 11:28 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  According to a ruling by the Arizona Court of Appeals, retailers who hire security firms in to patrol their premises can be held liable if a customer receives a personal injury. The judges acknowledged that firms who hire independent contractors for such jobs generally cannot be sued for the activities of the employees of that contractor. However, according to Judge Garve Vásquez, that changes...

• Diving Injury Paraplegic Awarded 16 Million

  John Cooper | July 03, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  An 18 year old young man from Kansas dove from the dock into a lake in 2005 and came out without being able to walk again. The water where he dove was less than 4 feet deep, but was not properly marked. A jury in 2007 held the corporation that owned the lake responsible for this injury and awarded 20 millions dollars for the permanent, catastrophic injury to the young man. The jury did find...

• How To Win A Slip And Fall Case In Virginia (VA)

  John Cooper | June 26, 2007 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  A personal injury lawsuit in Virginia (VA) has two parts, liability and damages. Damages are the result of the bodily injury to the person who is hurt, such as a broken bone and the lost wages and medical expenses associated with any orthopaedic surgery and permanent disability. The liability side of the bodily injury case is showing that the defendant was at fault in causing the plaintiff's...

• Premises Liability or Slip and Fall Cases Are Very Hard to Win in States Like Virginia

  John Cooper | March 21, 2007 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  In order to successfully recover for injuries caused by the owner or operator of a premises, you have to show that the business was negligent in that they failed to use ordinary care to keep their premises safe and to warn of hidden dangers. However, in Virginia, you also have to show that you, the injured person, are free from fault in causing your own injury and that the danger was not so...

• Ski Injuries Can Be Severe

  John Cooper | March 16, 2007 12:40 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Skiing is a fun winter-time sport that the whole family can participate in. However, skiing injuries can be permanently disabling. The use of helmets while skiing has greatly improved safety on the ski slopes. Skiers often collide with each other and fixed objects like trees. If you have a helmet on, you greatly increase your odds of avoiding a permanent, disabling brain injury or even...

• SLIP-AND-FALL VICTIM LOSES HIS CASE BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS

  Ben Glass | March 11, 2007 5:51 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A federal court in Richmond has thrown out a lawsuit against a NASCAR racetrack and another occupier of the property based on the plaintiff's "contributory negligence." A federal court in Richmond, Virginia has thrown out a personal injury lawsuit against a NASCAR racetrack and another occupier of the property based on the plaintiff's "contributory negligence." According to published reports...