Miscellaneous

• Middle School "No Touch" Rule is Nuts

  Ben Glass | June 20, 2007 6:13 AM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  OK, OK, this might not be directly related to the law but it is about life, so I'm writing about it. It's bad enough when schools ban dodgeball, soccer, football and the like. My seven year old tells me that when they play kickball, they can't throw the ball at the runnner to get them "out." (Those games on Jayhawk Street in Annandale would have gone on forever without being able to throw the...

• Live Blog from the "$65 Million Pants Lawsuit"

  Ben Glass | June 12, 2007 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The Washington Post has a guy in the courthouse doing a live "hour by hour/witness by witness" blog of the silliest lawsuit currently pending in any court in the country. You'll remember that some judge has sued the local dry cleaners for a whopping $65 million dollars for losing his pants. (They found them later, but details... details....)This suit has been widely and soundly condemned by...

• Greedy Trial Lawyer Image Deserved?

  Ben Glass | June 06, 2007 12:50 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  To a certain extent, some lawyers have made things even more difficult for the rest of us because of advertising that does not better than "I can shout louder and bolder than you can." Not knowing any better, frankly, they try to attract the attention of accident victims with ads flashing huge amounts of cash, showing gory accident scenes, or promising "quick and easy settlements." This type of...

• Store Owner's Duty to Use Safety Glass

  Ben Glass | June 01, 2007 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  We Get Questions:One of my sons were at a sports bar and a incident occurred inside with my youngest son. The manager on duty asked all parties to take it out side. My other son went out to make sure his brother will be OK. One of the other guys ran up and shoved my son through a plate glass window causing him to go to the Hospital and received 35 internal and external stitches. Should this...

• Josh Hancock lawsuit against bar would not fly in Virginia

  Ben Glass | May 29, 2007 5:50 PM | 6 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Apparently the father of Josh Hancock, the baseball player who died recently while driving drunk (and not wearing a seatbelt and talking on the cell phone) has filed suit against a number of entities, including the driver of the car that had stalled on the road, the pickup truck that had stopped to assist that car and the bar where Hancock spent several hours allegedly drinking. I don't know...

• Not enough car insurance? Whose fault is that?

  Ben Glass | May 29, 2007 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  At least two times a month I get calls from potential clients who have been involved in serious automobile accidents but for whom I can be of no assistance. I spoke to a woman the other day who had been rear ended by a large SUV. She suffered a serious injury to her neck and faces the prospect of multiple surgeries and an inability to work at all in the future.The bad news is that despite the...

• Fleet Bowel Prep Lawsuit for $10,000,000

  Ben Glass | May 16, 2007 4:56 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Norfolk, Virginia and AAJ member Jeffrey Breit has filed a $10,000,000 lawsuit against the manufacturer of Fleet's bowel prep. The claimant claims Fleet's store bought solution interacted with her high blood pressure drugs she was taking, causing kidney failure.The lawsuit alleges that the manufacturer "had known for at least 12 years of the potential of the product to produce dehydration,...

• Telephone call. Did not settle case.

  Ben Glass | May 15, 2007 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A Rockingham County Circuit Court judge has ruled that even though an insurance claims adjuster and a plaintiff reached a verbal agreement by telephone to settle a case for $1,500.00, the cover letter from the insurance adjuster clearly contemplated that the settlement would only be final once the release was signed and the settlement check cashed. Therefore the claimant, who consulted with an...

• Death From Falling Soccer Goal

  Ben Glass | May 11, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  As a life long soccer player and soccer referee for over 30 years, this story saddens me deeply.Apparently another child has died from injuries sustained when a soccer goal tipped over. The death of a 10 year old Winchester, Virginia soccer player happened just a couple of days ago.The consumer product safety commission has long warned of the danger of soccer goals tipping over, yet even today...

• Dry Cleaner Judge Ordered to Pay Legal Fees

  Ben Glass | May 11, 2007 6:59 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  This is not the first time the judge suing the dry cleaners has been involved in litigation himself. In 2005, the Virginia Court of Appeals heard his appeal of his divorce case. On appeal he contended that the trial court had made a mistake in not awarding him spousal support.He also asked that the Court of Appeals reverse an order granting his wife attorney fees in the case. (Unlike most civil...