Virginia News

A House subcommittee endorsed a package of tort reform bills Wednesday after business interests backing the bills reached a compromise with the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

The Virginia Supreme Court has reversed and remanded a case in which a jury awarded over $17 million dollars to the estate of a shipyard worker who died from mesothelioma.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. has reached an agreement with the state of Virginia to resolve accusations the bank charged hidden markups on currency transactions to Virginia's employee pension fund, in a deal that will also involve a $1.1 million payment to a whistleblower group, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

Following a series of trial setbacks over the last year, the Eastern District of Virginia’s “rocket docket” could be the home field advantage the Justice Department’s foreign bribery squad has been looking for.

A federal district judge in Virginia on Monday hit Abbott Laboratories with the second-largest criminal fine for a single drug.

Virginia ranks 7th for having a good legal climate, at least from a business perspective. according to a national ranking from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform.

Virginia is receiving $8.6 million from a nationwide settlement with British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Tuesday that the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit would turn over the money to the General Fund later this month.

Less than two months after joining in a $13 million settlement with about 200 home-owners, a pair of Hampton Road businesses are facing another legal fight over the installation of tainted Chinese-made drywall. And this time, the plaintiff is a government agency.

Four former top executives of a failed Virginia bank were charged with fraud, a rare federal criminal case against bank chiefs arising from the recent financial crisis.

Allergan Inc has been granted a new trial in a case brought by a man who won a $212 million jury verdict last year after claiming he was disabled by taking Botox injections.