Asleep-at-the-wheel prompts punitives claim 
A widow whose husband died in a collision with a tractor-trailer on a rainy July morning may sue the truck driver for punitive damages. A Lynchburg federal court balked at endorsing a punitives claim last August, but a second try at pleading punitive damages worked for Blanche Madison, suing for the wrongful death of her husband Edgar Madison.
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Virginia lawmakers returning to Richmond in January are expected to consider relaxing the stiff legal challenges faced by wrongly convicted inmates seeking exoneration.
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If you wanted to pick a theme song for 2012, “The Waiting” by Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers might be at the top of the list. It seems like every time you turned around this year, we all found ourselves waiting for something to happen before doing something else. Nonetheless, a lot happened this year, and we provide a retrospective on 2012, with a review of the top cases, the top news and the top items from the VLW Daily Alert.
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