A Maryland jury awarded $2 million to a man stabbed 17 times in a state prison. The Supreme Court of Maryland cut it to $400,000. Here is how the cap on suing the State works, and what counts as one incident.

A head-on crash on the GW Parkway killed one passenger and gravely hurt another, but the Virginia claim still failed because no one could prove how it happened. Here is the proof a crash case needs.

A passenger who lost both legs in an Uber crash never signed anything with Uber, and the D.C. Circuit refused to push his case into private arbitration. Here is what that means for D.C. rideshare riders.

A Virginia public hospital’s corporate arm does not automatically inherit government immunity, and the doctor who treated you may have none at all. Immunity is a defense they must prove, not assume.

A Virginia jury found that a delayed specialist referral cost a patient most of his sight. An appeals court then erased the verdict over one missing piece of proof. Here is what these claims require.

From two January wins in Virginia's Supreme Court to the Whiteru finale, 2025 reshaped DMV injury law. Our year-end review of the decisions that mattered.

Virginia's 2024 Traffic Crash Facts: 129,244 crashes, 918 deaths, 64,086 injuries. What the DMV's numbers mean for crash victims and their families.

AI chatbots give confident answers about injury law — and get DMV specifics wrong. The contributory negligence trap, notice deadlines, and more.

On July 1, 2025, Virginia's med mal cap rises to $2.70 million. Why the date of the malpractice — not the trial — controls, and what the schedule means.

Virginia is one of a handful of places where being even slightly at fault can bar your recovery entirely. What contributory negligence means for your claim, and how insurers try to use it against you.

Virginia's Supreme Court reinstated a $7M brain-injury verdict, holding circumstantial evidence of causation need not rule out every other possibility.

The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed a $2M wrongful death verdict, holding the Dead Man's Statute did not silence the patient's own account of his fall.

When a Virginia school bus crash injures a child, sovereign immunity is waived up to the school board's insurance. How these claims actually work.

The Supreme Court of Virginia held a housing authority acts like any private landowner when maintaining its property — no sovereign immunity.

Most cars record crash data. What Virginia's EDR privacy statute and federal rule 49 CFR Part 563 mean for proving your crash case.

Virginia's Court of Appeals affirmed a $1.18M med-mal verdict, holding a failure-to-mitigate instruction can't smuggle in contributory negligence.

Virginia's UM/UIM stacking law is in effect — but only for some policies. An FAQ on renewals, offset elections, and which rule governs your crash.

As of July 1, 2023, Virginia UIM coverage pays on top of the at-fault driver's insurance — no more offset. Before-and-after examples and what to check.

Virginia's open-and-obvious doctrine can end a premises case — but it has real limits. When the defense works, when it fails, and how to build proof.

Virginia's SB 754 ends the underinsured motorist offset for policies issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2023. What the change means for crash victims.