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A Virginia judge has greatly reduced one of the largest wrongful death verdicts ever in this state after it was disclosed that a plaintiff's Facebook postings had been deleted and that a judge had been lied to about the postings.

This case underscores valuable lessons for claimants:

(1) never hide stuff from your lawyer
(2) always, always tell the truth
(3) stop posting silly stuff about yourself on Facebook
(4) never exagerate your claim

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Virginia lawyers weekly recently their list of the largest Virginia judgments 2009. The list had listed 21 judgment (a judgment must be at least $ 1 million to make the list) with 7 of them as medical malpractice judgments. Missing judgments on course with 4, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 20 with the highest distinction among them listed at $7.4 million! This is a whole amount.

However, that $7.4 million is not what the plaintiff was awarded, simply what thought the jury the case was worth. Unfortunately the jury judgment medical malpractice Cap (i.e. found missing between 1 July 2001 and 1 July 2002) to the current Virginia of $1.6 million and is only 15 highest verdict in Virginia for 2009.

The story is the same for the other medical malpractice cases. In fact, if you in the caps each medical malpractice judgment applied to factor, just a case makes the top 10, a judgment $ 1.85 million, and it has rankte Darden as number combo 10., the million dollar-Medmal judgments from Virginia in 2009 total $ 11.72 million not just the largest 2009 ruling in the State, a 13.5 million US-dollar false advertising claim.

Food for thought is the next time the someone you that says medical malpractice reforms required. Unfortunately, it is already here and the plaintiff's their only recovery since 1999 refuse served has.

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Hopefully twice before texting and driving after hearing about the recent jury verdict people think.

A Robertson County, Texas jury has ordered to that a student almost 22 million dollars damages in a suit for wrongful death figures.  The jury came to the conclusion that Jason Reed Vestal texting and driving, which resulted in a serious car accident in November 2007.  This judgment is one of the largest in the history in case texting while driving.

Depending on the phone records Vestal sent and received 15 text messages, and seven phone calls of 45 minutes, which he rode before the fatal collision took place.  The accident claimed the lives of the 21-year-old Megan small Houston, was a senior at Baylor University.  Vestal of the truck collided head-on with small vehicle.

Vestal, said that he remember not everything from the accident and it's really hard to check whether it really caused his SMS.  He said that his phone records to only prove that there were text messages and phone calls, while he was driving.

Hunter craft, the lawyer representing family called this principle in the case. "No. 1 is the first time a Texas jury spoken according to their thoughts on SMS and drive and has spoken."  It was also the largest wrongful judgement ever to come from Robertson County death.  "I think this is probably a synonym for the egregious nature of Reed Vestal code of conduct in the case," said craft.

The family would like to use advertising about the case to push Texas to make illegal legislators SMS while driving in the State.

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Virginia lawyers weekly recently their list of the largest Virginia judgments 2009. The list had listed (a judgment must be at least $ 1 million to make the list) 21 judgments judgments with 7 of them as medical malpractice. Missing judgments ranked at 4, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 20 with the highest distinction among them listed at $7.4 million. This is a whole amount.

However, being $7.4 million not what the plaintiff was awarded, simply what thought the jury the case was worth. Unfortunately, the jury was reduced judgment the applicable Virginia medical malpractice cap of $1.6 million (i.e. the misconduct occurred between 1 July 2001 and 1 July 2002 is) so that it only the 15 highest verdict in Virginia for 2009.

The story is listed the same for each of the other medical malpractice cases. In fact, if you in the caps each medical malpractice judgment applied to factor, just a case makes the top 10, a judgment $ 1.85 million, and it has rankte Darden as number combo 10., the million dollar-Medmal judgments from Virginia in 2009 total $ 11.72 million not the largest same 2009 judgment in the State, and a 13.5 million $ false advertising claim.

Food for thought is the next time the someone you that says medical malpractice reforms, required. Unfortunately is already here and the applicant's their only recovery since 1999 refuse served has.

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Hopefully is twice before texting and driving over after the last jury judgment people think.

A Robertson County, Texas jury has ordered to that a student almost 22 million dollars damages in a suit wrongful death figures.  The jury came to the conclusion that Jason Reed Vestal texting and driving, which resulted in a serious car accident in November 2007.  This judgment is one of the largest in the history in case texting while driving.

Depending on the phone of records Vestal sent and received 15 text messages and seven calls during the 45 minutes, which, he went before the fatal collision took place.  The car accident claims, the life of the 21-year-old Megan small Houston, was the senior at Baylor University.  Vestal's truck collided head-on with small vehicle.

Vestal, said that he remember anything from the accident not and it's really hard to check whether it really caused his texting.  He said that his phone records only prove, that there were text messages and phone calls, while he was driving.

Hunter craft, which is the nuclear family, lawyer, called it a landmark case. "No. 1 is the first time a Texas jury spoken according to their thoughts on texting and driving and has pronounced."  It was also the largest wrongful death judgment ever to come out of Robertson County.  I think, this is probably a synonym for the egregious nature of Reed Vestal code of conduct in the case of "Craft said."

The family would like to use advertising about the case while driving illegal in the State to urge Texas legislature to SMS.

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