Case Studies

• Grigg v. Wintergreen Partners, Inc.

  (skier/grooming equipment collision)
  Jessica Grigg, age 17, was skiing down Eagle's Swoop, an open intermediate slope at Wintergreen Ski Resort in Nelson County, Virginia when she was run over by a large diesel powered track snow groomer. The jury awarded $8.3 million in damages, the largest verdict ever awarded by a jury in the United States in a ski case.

• Bell v. MTP Custom Machines

  (product defect - lab cleaning equipment)

• Brown v. Elk Mountain

  (recreation/equine case)

• Coxon v. Bond

  (skier collision)

• Deherrera v. Sullivan

  (automobile accident/governmental immunity)

• J.R. Fearneyhough v. Magic Carpet Lifts

  (product defect - ski area chairlift)

• McClellan v. John Pennie and YESCO

  (automobile accident)

• Nguyen v. Stecher

  (medical malpractice) - The case of Nguyen v. Stecher was a medical malpractice case resulting in a wrongful death. The jury awarded the family $1.3 Million in damages - and, following this case and others, the State Board pulled Dr. Stecher's license to practice medicine.

• R. and R.C. v. The United States of America

  (military facility medical malpractice)

• Sale v. Dixon

  (skier/skier collision)

• Mays v. Knight Light, Inc.

  (electrocution)

• L.Z. v. R.S. and E.M.S., Inc.

  (truck accident)

• Watkins v. Richman

  (legal malpractice)