Emroch & Kilduff

A truck driver and furniture mover was hit on U.S. Route 17 in Fauquier County, Virginia, on July 21, 2000, by a Wheelabrator Water Technologies truck that pulled out from a stop sign. He broke both legs, and an infection that would not heal led to amputation of the right leg above the knee. Liability was admitted from the start. The case settled for $9 million after one day of jury trial in Richmond Circuit Court.

An 80-year-old woman attending a funeral reception fell down non-uniform exterior stairs at a private club, sustaining a traumatic brain injury, skull and facial fractures, and a shoulder fracture, and settled for $2.3 million in July 2024.

A worker for a Virginia company fell about 14 feet through a roof opening in Maryland that was covered by a fiberglass panel painted to match the metal roof, landing on concrete. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, spinal, facial and skull fractures and a wrist fracture. The case was disputed on contributory negligence and on the extent of his cognitive impairment, and it settled at mediation for $2.25 million.

A 66-year-old man in a Virginia hospital, awaiting discharge, slipped on a floor a contractor's housekeeper had just mopped and struck his head while holding an IV pole. He suffered a skull fracture and subdural hematoma and was removed from life support the next day. His family sued the hospital and the contractor that employed the housekeeper in Fredericksburg Circuit Court. The claim settled at mediation on May 22, 2024 for $1.5 million.

A 4-year-old girl suffered burns to her legs in July 2000 when gas ignited in a Richmond sewer main. Her lawyers said the city had not fully repaired gas line leaks found nearby two months earlier. The city agreed to pay $1.5 million, and a Richmond Circuit Court judge approved the settlement in December 2002.

A 36-year-old woman suffered bilateral ureter damage and bladder perforation during a laparoscopic hysterectomy, developed acute renal failure, and settled her malpractice claim in Fredericksburg Circuit Court for $1.5 million.

A Richmond woman went to the emergency room two days after a cesarean delivery with pain, fever and a CT scan suggesting a uterine abscess. Her obstetrician treated her for a routine postpartum infection for about a week, and she then needed a laparotomy to remove necrotic uterine tissue. A Richmond Circuit Court jury returned $1.5 million in March 2018, and the parties settled for $1.45 million to avoid an appeal.

A 21-year-old first-time mother developed Wernicke's encephalopathy and permanent cognitive deficits after her OBGYNs failed to give her thiamine during two months of severe hyperemesis gravidarum, resulting in a $1.5 million settlement in January 2025.

A 36-year-old woman had an abdominal hysterectomy for chronic pelvic pain and a complex ovarian cyst. Her gynecologist sutured the entire posterior wall of the bladder into the closure of the vaginal cuff and did not recognize it before ending the operation. She needed emergency surgery, a fistula repair and repeated Botox injections, and was left with permanently reduced bladder capacity. The Fredericksburg Circuit Court case settled for $1.2 million on April 23, 2024.

A 55-year-old woman whose breast cancer went undetected for nearly a year after military radiologists misread her imaging recovered $1 million in a federal settlement against Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.