On August 14, 2014, Mr. Waterman settled a three-vehicle collision claim arising on Oyster Point Road in Newport News, Virginia. A Newport News van operator insured by Nationwide rear-ended a Hampton driver who in turn rear-ended another Hampton driver, whose personal injuries were treated in...
Trial is the monthly journal of American Association for Justice (“AAJ”), formerly American Trial Lawyers Association (“ATLA”). AAJ’s August 2014 issue of Trial is entitled “Drugs & Devices”. Trial’s lead drug/pharma articles for special cases of product liability are: “Unearth Design Control EVIDENCE,” id. at 14-20;...
On July 16, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Georgia reversed a jury verdict for the defense in a medical malpractice lawsuit due to the trial judge’s manifest abuse of discretion in not stricking a biased juror for cause as requested by Plaintiff. Scarpaci v....
Security Nat’l Bank of Sioux City, Iowa, as Conservator for J.M.K., a Minor v. Abbott Laboratories, 2014 WL 3704277 (N.D. Iowa Jul. 28, 2014) conceived a product liability case for alleged permanent brain injury. That opinion is notable for its “outside-the-box sanction” of defense counsel’s...
Patten Wornom Hatten & Diamonstein has received a Tier 1 ranking in the 2015 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”. Its repeat Tier 1 ranking by The Best Lawyers in America is derived in substantial part from its “clients’ impressive feedback...
On July 28, 2014, argusleader.com of Argus Leader Media headlined “Sanford settled lawsuit alleging kickbacks to doctors”. The article reported “Sanford Health paid the federal government $625,000.00…to settle a [Medicare] whistle-blower lawsuit which claimed…doctors engaged in a kickback scheme to encourage use of a spinal...
In the special case of Bostic v. Rainey, No. 14-1167 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, a 2-1 majority declared “Virginia Marriage Laws” unconstitutional as applied to same-sex couples. Id. at *20, 62-63. “Via various state statutes and a state...
The Trial Lawyer is the quarterly publication of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Its issue for Summer, 2014, is entitled “BIG PHARMA’S HARSH TOKE”. The Trial Lawyer’s Summer 2014 lead articles include: “INTERSTATE TRUCKING LITIGATION: The Difference Between Winning and Losing,” id. at...
Trial is the monthly publication of the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”), formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association (“ATLA”). Its issue for July, 2014, is entitled “TRIAL TACTICS: Game On!”. Trial’s July issue features a half-dozen noteworthy articles: “ONCE UPON AN OPENING,” id. at 12-16; “30(b)(6)...
On July 14, 2014, Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s front page headlined “Hospital must provide risk manager reports”. It covered Mr. Waterman’s nursing home patient fall ruling in Cherrie v. Virginia Health Services, Inc. d/b/a Walter Reed Convalescent & Rehabilitation Center, No. CL12-440 in Gloucester Circuit Court,...
On July 8, 2014, Mr. Waterman settled a car crash case for $300,000.00. This follows on his settlement of another car collision for $475,000.00 in June, 2014. THE VIRGINIA STATE BAR REQUIRES ALL LAWYERS TO POST THE FOLLOWING DISCLAIMERS ON ALL CASE-RELATED POSTS. MR. WATERMAN'S CASE...
Washington Lawyer is the monthly journal of the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Waterman has been a member of the D.C. Bar for two decades. The cover and lead article of Washington Lawyer’s June 2014 issue is “Cover Blown: NSA Surveillance and Secrets”. Id. at 22-29....
The Bencher is the bimonthly publication of the American Inns of Court (www.innsofcourt.org), formed in 1985 and modeled after the English Inns of Court (Lincoln’s Inn, Middle Temple, Gray’s Inn, and Inner Temple) dating to the 1300s. Its issue for the May/June 2014 covers “The...
Online on June 27, 2014, and in print on June 30, 2014, Virginia Lawyers Weekly highlighted Mr. Waterman’s recent privilege hearing order dated June 5, 2014, in “This Week’s Opinions” under the heading “Discovery Ordered for Hospital Risk Manager Notes”. His underlying wrongful death case...
On June 25, 2014, The Virginia Gazette reported that Mr. Waterman was selected for “Virginia Super Lawyers” for 2014, which “represents the sixth consecutive time since his first induction in 2009 that he has been named to the exclusive list.” Id. at 13A. The Virginia...
Trial is the monthly publication of the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”), formerly American Trial Lawyers Association (“ATLA”). In the issue for June, 2014, its Verdicts & Settlements report under “AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS” the notable New Mexico wrongful death case entitled “Driver Buried Alive Under Sand...
On June 23, 2014, in Mr. Waterman’s patient fall lawsuit of Nancy Peck v. Riverside Hospital, Inc., et al., No. CL1400873V-04, Circuit Court for the City of Newport News, Virginia, heard Patient’s Motion to Enforce Va. Code §8.01-413(C) Subpoena Duces Tecum & HIPAA/HITECH and Riverside’s...
On June 16, 2014, Virginia Lawyers Weekly covered two wrongful death cases involving Mr. Waterman. They are the patient fall lawsuit of Eason v. Sentara CarePlex Hosp., No. CL12-470, Letter Op. (Hampton May 29, 2014) and the plane crash appeal of Harman v. Honeywell Int’l,...
On June 13, 2014, Mr. Waterman settled a car crash claim for personal injuries for $475,000.00 from insurers, Nationwide and Alfa. The case is Lamont v. Striggles, No. CL1301322V-04 in Circuit Court for the City of Newport News, Virginia. The Lamont lawsuit arose out of a...
On June 12, 2014, Appellee Honeywell filed Notice of Intent to Petition for Rehearing in the dual-death plane crash case of Harman v. Honeywell Int’l, Inc., No. 130627. Before deciding the appeal in favor of the Estate Representatives on June 5, 2014, the Virginia Supreme...
On June 5, 2014, the Virginia Supreme Court issued its opinion in the medical malpractice appeal of Bartee v. Vitocruz, No. 131283. “Applying the doctrine of survivorship, the power of appointment given [Robert] Bartee and Wiley Begley as co-administrators to prosecute a wrongful death action...
On June 2, 2014, Circuit Court for the City of Newport News upheld Mr. Waterman’s use of medical injury illustrations as demonstrative evidence in a car crash case set for jury trial during June 16-20, 2014. The lawsuit is Lamont v. Striggles, No. CL1301322V-04. Nationwide, as...
On June 5, 2014, the Virginia Supreme Court issued its opinion in the wrongful death appeal of Harman v. Honeywell Int’l, Inc., No. 130627. It reversed and remanded in favor of Plaintiffs/Appellants, in whose support Mr. Waterman had authored Brief and Reply Brief Amicus Curiae...
On May 29, 2014, a Letter Opinion issued in the patient fall case of Eason v. Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Sentara Hospitals, et al., No. CL12-470 in Circuit Court for the City of Hampton, Virginia. It covered policies, procedures, and audit trails, including metadata. First, the Eason...
The Trial Lawyer is the quarterly magazine of The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Its Spring 2014 issue features two articles about vehicle crashes, two about brain injuries, and one about medical malpractice. The first is “THE UNHOLY TRINITY: TALKING, TEXTING AND TRUCKING –...
On April 17, 2014, the Virginia Supreme Court issued Gibson v. Commonwealth, No. 131256, a special case concerning the Sexually Violent Predators Act (“SVPA”), Va. Code §37.2-900, et. seq. It reversed and remanded the Judge’s civil commitment of a sexually violent predator because the wrong...
In Lucas v. Woody, No. 131064, a sharply divided Virginia Supreme Court decided in a special case of “first impression” on April 17, 2014, that the 1-year statute of limitation of Va. Code §8.01-243.2, not the 2-year statute of limitation of Va. Code §8.01-243(A), applied...
On February 25, 2014, in an unpublished per curiam decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated and remanded the dismissal of a sexual harassment lawsuit by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Rice v....
David v. David, No. 122145 in the Virginia Supreme Court, was decided February 27, 2014. It delineated that the spouse owning separate property bears the burden of proving whether significant personal effort during marriage proximately caused substantial appreciation of that separate property during marriage. Id....
On February 27, 2014, the charitable immunity case of The Byrd Theatre Foundation v. Barnett, No. 130691, was decided by the Virginia Supreme Court. It affirmed the trial court’s holding that defendant Foundation was not entitled charitable immunity. Id. at 1. Byrd Theatre held the dispositive...