2025 Year in Review: The DMV Injury-Law Decisions That Mattered
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 Crash Numbers Are In: What They Say About Who Gets Hurt, and Where
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.
Asking a Chatbot About Your Injury Case? What AI Gets Wrong About DC, Maryland, and Virginia Law
AI chatbots give confident answers about injury law — and get DMV specifics wrong. The contributory negligence trap, notice deadlines, and more.
Virginia's Medical Malpractice Cap Hits $2.70 Million on July 1: The Schedule, and the Strategy
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.
Understanding Contributory Negligence in Virginia: What It Means for Your Personal Injury Claim
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.
The $7 Million Verdict That Came Back: Al-Saray v. Furr and the Power of Circumstantial Evidence
Virginia's Supreme Court reinstated a $7M brain-injury verdict, holding circumstantial evidence of causation need not rule out every other possibility.
A $2 Million Verdict Stands: Virginia's Dead Man's Statute Tamed in Bon Secours-DePaul v. Rogakos-Russell
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.
School Bus Crashes in Virginia: Sovereign Immunity, Insurance, and Your Child's Rights
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.
Page v. PRHA: Housing Authorities Can't Hide Behind Sovereign Immunity
The Supreme Court of Virginia held a housing authority acts like any private landowner when maintaining its property — no sovereign immunity.
The Crash Data in Your Car: EDR "Black Box" Evidence in Virginia
Most cars record crash data. What Virginia's EDR privacy statute and federal rule 49 CFR Part 563 mean for proving your crash case.
Rodrigue v. Butts-Franklin: $1.18 Million Malpractice Verdict Affirmed — Mitigation Is Not a Backdoor to Contributory Negligence
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 New UM/UIM Law: An FAQ on Policies, Renewals, and Elections
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.
July 1, 2023: Virginia's UM/UIM Offset Is Dead — Stacking Arrives
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.
"Open and Obvious" in Virginia Premises Cases: The Doctrine and Its Limits
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.
Big Change Coming to Virginia UM/UIM: The 2022 Law That Ends the Offset in July 2023
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.
Fines v. RACSB: Virginia's Community Services Boards Have No Sovereign Immunity
The Supreme Court of Virginia holds community services boards are not immune from tort suits — a major ruling for abuse survivors and injured Virginians.
Hit-and-Run in Virginia: How John Doe Claims and Your UM Coverage Work
Hit by a driver who fled or was never identified? Virginia lets you sue "John Doe" and recover from your own uninsured motorist coverage. Here's how.
Snow, Ice, and Virginia Landlords: Who Is Responsible When You Fall at Your Apartment?
Fell on ice at your Virginia apartment complex? Landlord duties for common areas, the reasonable-time rule, and how contributory negligence shapes claims.
The New Court of Appeals of Virginia Opens for Business: Every Civil Case Now Gets an Appeal
Effective January 1, 2022, every Virginia civil litigant has an appeal of right to an expanded Court of Appeals. What SB 1261 changes for injury cases.
The "Seatbelt Defense" in Virginia: Why Your Non-Use Usually Can't Be Used Against You
Virginia law bars evidence of seatbelt non-use in injury cases. How Va. Code § 46.2-1094(D) works and why the defense can't mention it at trial.