Virginia Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Blog

"No Boys With Cars" Case Settles For $1.75 Million

Richmond, VA case regarding the responsibilities of a host parent to a guest child. A young girl slept over at a friends house under the condition to the host mother that there be "No Boys With Cars." The host mother allowed her daughter and the guest to ride with a young male driver who subsequently crashed and killed the guest.

Another very sad traffic death at Christopher Newport University

Our prayers goes out for the Burke, Virginia family of Christopher Newport University sophomore, Peter Morgan. Peter died in a traffic accident last night. Peter was a classmate of my son at Christopher Newport. My daughter plays field hockey at Robinson with his sister.

Peter was a football player at Christopher Newport and at Robinson Secondary school, where he was a team captain.

This is the second very sad death for the Christopher Newport, Robinson Seconday community in the last year. In November, 2008 Cameron Schlifke was killed in a car accident.

"No Boys to Drive" Lawsuit to Proceed

The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled that a mother who hosted a teen age girl for a sleepover, and who made a promise to the parents that "I won't let you daughter be driven by a boy" may be sued when the young girl died in an accident later that night when being driven by a teen age male driver.

This case should send a strong warning to parents that they have an obligation to keep their promises.

Read more about this very sad case involving a wrongful death during a sleepover here.

UPDATE: The case settled for $1.75 million in April, 2010. Check out my blog on the settlement for this wrongful death case.

Every Parent's Nightmare--You leave you child for a sleepover and she dies

Here is one of the saddest cases I've come across in a long time.

Parents left their 14 year old daughter with another parent for a sleepover. The host parent promised to supervise and enforce the rule that "my daughter is not to be driven by any young male drivers. This is the rule we have at home."

The promise was made, then broken.

You can read this very sad car accident case from the Supreme Court of Virginia here.