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A Richmond Circuit Court jury awarded $360 million to three former adolescent patients who were sexually abused by Cumberland Hospital's medical director during admission exams, in what ranks among the largest personal-injury verdicts in Virginia history.

A Suffolk jury returned a $60 million verdict, then the largest damages award in Virginia history, for Brian Hugen, who suffered catastrophic traumatic brain injury when a Velocity Express delivery van crossed into his lane; the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed liability but ordered a new trial on damages.

A Charles City County jury returned a $20 million verdict for a ten-year-old boy who suffered catastrophic electrical burns after entering a neglected Virginia Power substation, and the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the award in full.

A Charlottesville jury awarded $15 million to the mother and sister of University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love after a 2022 civil trial against the man convicted of her 2010 murder.

A federal judge approved an $11.5 million settlement for a Virginia Beach Navy family whose son was born with severe brain damage at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam in 2014, after attorneys Michael Imprevento and Kevin Biniazan sued the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

A 15-year-old boarding student at the Miller School of Albemarle won a $10 million jury verdict and a combined $10.75 million total recovery after being catastrophically impaled by a cut bamboo stalk during a mandatory school service project on property leased by a local VFW post.