The recent verdict from Montgomery County, Virginia underscores what Herndon lawyer Doug Landau has been emphasizing for years: that the amount of medical bills and lost wages are not subject to some formula to calculate settlement or likely verdict outcomes. In the Blacksburg Virginia Triathlon case, a bicyclist crashed into a car when it ran…
Continue readingThe answer is “yes.” With the recent verdict in a fatal bike crash case in Montgomery County, Triathlon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau points out that we can see that not only can both sides of a crash case lose, due to contributory negligence and assumption of the risk, but both sides can also win when…
Continue readingTriathlon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau reports that the triathlete who was killed while competing in Southwest Virginia has once again been vindicated by a jury’s verdict. While people unfamiliar with the sport of triathlon might have leapt to the conclusion that the racer was to blame for this crash, or had at least “assumed the…
Continue readingA woman has won a lawsuit against the town of Blacksburg over a deadly triathlon accident back in 2000. Gary Wayne Taylor died when his bicycle hit a car at an unpatrolled intersection. The driver of the car, Sharon Knight, sued the town of Blacksburg and the race director. A fortnight ago, a Montgomery County,…
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