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A Virginia appeals court upheld a wrongful death verdict against an assisted living facility whose resident died of an infected bedsore, and confirmed that grandchildren can share in the award.
In D.C., the city usually can’t be sued for failing to protect someone, but there are real exceptions. A 2025 ruling on a stillborn baby shows where the line falls.
In D.C., a landlord who lets a ceiling, stairwell, or railing stay dangerous cannot defeat your injury claim by saying you should have moved out. Here is what that rule does and does not cover.
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.
The District sets no dollar limit on pain and suffering, unlike Maryland and Virginia. A $4 million malpractice verdict that survived appeal shows how D.C. juries are allowed to put a number on what was taken from you.
