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In Van Dam v. Gay, No. 091659 (Va. Sept. 16, 2010), the Court affirmed the trial court’s award of summary judgment to an attorney in a legal malpractice case based on the statute of limitations. The alleged malpractice involved the representation of the former wife in a divorce case. As part of the divorce settlement,… Read More

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 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