In Williams v. Joynes, 278 Va 57, 677 S.E.2d 261 (2009), the Supreme Court of Virginia reversed the Circuit Court’s ruling that plaintiff’s failure to file a personal injury action in a foreign jurisdiction was a superseding event sufficient to sever the link of proximate causation between the defendants’… Read More

In Baserva v. Remes, et al, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63597 (E.D. Va. 2009), a legal malpractice action, the plaintiff, a non-U.S. citizen, sued his former attorney for damages arising out of the plaintiff’s detention by immigration authorities. Mr. Baserva filed suit in 2008 against his attorney in connection with two se… Read More

In Bleck v. Power, 955 A.2d 712 (D.C. Sept. 4, 2008), the D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s ruling that the plaintiff’s malpractice suit was barred by the three-year statute of limitations. The issue was when the cause of action for legal malpractice accrued. The legal malpractice suit arose out o… Read More

In Hitt Construction v. Pratt, 53 Va. App. 423, 672 S.E.2d 904 (Va. App. Feb. 17, 2009), the Court held that for the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission to exercise its review authority under the Act, when that authority is timely challenged, it must be composed of three statutorily authorized members. As a result, a d… Read More

In Goldstein v. National Casualty Company, 2008 U.S. Dist. Lexis 58129 (W.D. Va. July 28, 2008), Judge Kiser granted the insurer’s motion for summary judgment on an insurance bad faith claim. The claim arose from an excess judgment. The insured was a truck driver who was involved in an accident as he was attempting to… Read More

In Footbridge Limited Trust v. Zhang, 584 F.Supp. 2d 150 (D.D.C. Nov. 5, 2008), Judge Kollar-Kotelly dismissed a legal malpractice suit due to plaintiff's lack of expert testimony to support the claim. The suit arose out of a real estate closing in which the plaintiff had loaned certain non-party borrowers $1.5 million… Read More

In Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Ins. Co. v. Hancock, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20536 (E.D. Va. March 3, 2009), Judge Henry E. Hudson granted summary judgment in an insurer’s rescission action based on fraud in the application. The policy at issue was a legal malpractice insurance policy issued by Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insu… Read More

In Young v. Burton, 567 F.Supp.2d 121 (D.D.C. July 22, 2008), the plaintiffs filed a legal malpractice claim based on the defendants’ alleged failure to file a timely personal injury lawsuit. The underlying suit was a claim for damages suffered by plaintiffs as a result of exposure to toxic mold while residing at an a… Read More