By: Peter Vieth | Virginia Lawyers Weekly | July 13, 2020 A federal judge says a $12 million lawsuit can go forward against a group of bank officials accused of lining their pockets at the expense of employees’ retirement benefits. The putative class action suit claims that officials at Louisa-based Virginia Community Bank – now […]
On April 24, 2020, Danny Zemel and Mark Krudys, along with University of Richmond Law Professor John Preis, taught a national CLE webinar entitled, “Making a Federal Case of It.”
Associated Press | The Washington Post | Feb. 25, 2020 NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia jail guard ignored an inmate’s cries of pain and medical personnel did nothing to help him before he died, according to a lawsuit filed by his estate. The lawsuit said that when one officer at Hampton Road Regional Jail spotted […]
By Scott Daugherty |The Virginian-Pilot| Feb. 25, 2020|A1 It was obvious the Hampton Roads Regional Jail inmate was in severe and constant pain, other inmates would later say. But the jail’s correctional officers and medical staff did nothing last year to help 62-year-old Victor Rhea Fountain before his death, according to a new lawsuit. When […]
By Michelle Dmytryszyn | The Central Virginian |Feb. 13, 2020 A long-time employee is suing Louisa-based Virginia Community Bank, its holding company and four other defendants for $12 million, claiming she and her colleagues were cheated out of their retirement benefits. The class action lawsuit was filed in August 2019 in federal district court in […]
By Margaret Matray | The Virginian-Pilot | Feb. 13, 2020 But instead of calling EMS or driving to a hospital, officers took her to the police department, according to the suit. Less than three hours later — and despite calls for help — the 28-year-old died in a police lock-up cell, the lawsuit says. Now, VanGilder’s parents […]
By Lisa Provence | C-Ville Weekly | December 16, 2016 4:42 PM When Lynne Kinder’s 41-year-old husband died of a heart attack while riding his bike on New Year’s Eve in 2005, his childhood friend and groomsman in their wedding said he owed it to Trey Kinder to take care of his widow and two […]
By MICHAEL SCHWARTZ | Richmond BizSense | December 14, 2016 See Original Article Here. The widow of a wealthy local investment banker is suing a Charlottesville businessman who she claims stole much of her family’s $7 million fortune in an episode that is allegedly being investigated by the FBI and has entangled a Richmond financial […]
See Original Article Here. By Rachel Weiner | The Washington Post | December 12, 2016 The Hampton Roads jail, where a mentally ill young man died last year awaiting a psychiatric hospital bed, is under investigation by the Justice Department. Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, was accused of stealing $5.05 worth of snacks from a 7-Eleven near […]
By SARAH KLEINER AND K. BURNELL EVANS | Richmond Times-Dispatch | December 1, 2016, 10:30 PM A Petersburg man was treated for the wrong medical condition and then died after jailers strapped him to a restraint chair at the Richmond City Justice Center in January, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court. […]