RON HERBERT & TODD ANDERSON RETAIN DEFENSE WIN ON APPEAL

In April, the Supreme Court of Virginia unanimously upheld Ron & Todd ’s defense verdict in a suit claiming negligent management of hypotension resulting in a spinal nerve root injury and partial paralysis.   At trial, the court refused the plaintiff ’s jury instruction seeking to hold the physician liable for “all the consequences of [his] negligence, whether foreseen or not.”   The Supreme Court found this language to be a “strict liability instruction and an inaccurate statement of Virginia tort law,” thus it was properly refused.    For a discussion of the case and Ron ’s quote with respect to preserving objections,  Click Here