Wood Circuit Court
Recent News About Wood Circuit Court
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Parkersburg couple sues Wood school board for school bus accident
PARKERSBURG -- A collision involving a school bus is at the center of a lawsuit filed in Wood County. -
Signature agrees to $4.7M Wood Co. hospital settlement
PARKERSBURG – The parent company of a Wood County hospital has tentatively agreed to pay its former employees nearly $5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. -
Two Wood Co. attorneys face trials after class-action case
PARKERSBURG – After being on the offensive in a class-action suit, two Wood County attorneys will go on defensive in related lawsuits against them for professional misconduct in a Parkersburg businessman's criminal case. -
Plaintiffs in Wood hospital class action seek $10.8 million
PARKERSBURG – Plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against a Wood County hospital are asking they be awarded more than $10 million for lost benefits, and the hospital's former parent company put its remaining hospitals currently on the auction block up as collateral. -
Suit accuses Albright Jr. again of mishandling estate case
PARKERSBURG – A suspended Wood County attorney is again in legal trouble over his failure to timely settle an estate. -
Former ER nurse sues Camden-Clark for wrongful termination
PARKERSBURG – After being falsely accused of unprofessional behavior, a former emergency room nurse at a Wood County hospital is suing to get her job and reputation back. -
Parking on Parkersburg street led to accident, suit alleges
This intersection at Covert and 19th streets in Parkersburg is where David Harding says he was injured following a car wreck with another motorist in 2009. (Photo by Lawrence Smith) PARKERSBURG – A Wood County man alleges the city of Parkersburg is to blame for the injuries he received in a car wreck two years ago. -
A fee waiver is just that, Court rules
CHARLESTON –- The state Supreme Court has made clear someone appealing a case from magistrate to circuit court is not required to pay the appeal fee if he or she has been granted a fee waiver. -
Wood Co. attorney, former prosecutor team for hospital class action
PARKERSBURG –- After denying he allowed his personal and professional relationships with the prosecutor's office cloud his judgment in a Parkersburg businessman's 2007 criminal trial, a Wood County attorney is now working with a former Wood County prosecutor in a class-action lawsuit. -
Wood Co. woman accuses son of fraud in estate dispute
PARKERSBURG – A Wood County woman is suing her son for siphoning assets from her deceased husband's estate. -
Wood attorney again named in legal malpractice suit
PARKERSBURG -– A Wood County attorney is once again a defendant in a legal malpractice suit. -
In midst of wrongful death suit, Jeffery sexual harassment trial slated for July
PARKERSBURG – Aside from one for wrongful death, David Wyatt Jeffery is defending himself in a sexual harassment suit scheduled for trial this summer. -
Ohio doctor challeges denial of insurance coverage to disabled husband
PARKERSBURG -- An Ohio doctor is suing a West Virginia insurance company for its failure to pay medical bills her husband, who is also a doctor, incurred as a result of his ongoing hospitalization. -
Wood school board settles special ed teacher's suit for $175K, sensitivity training
PARKERSBURG -– Along with payment of a cash settlement, the Wood County Board of Education has resolved a lawsuit with a special education teacher by agreeing to better train school administrators about handicap students. -
Wood couple file second online defamation suit
MIDDLEBOURE – A Wood County couple has filed a second lawsuit alleging they were defamed by comments made about them online. -
Social networking comments lead to defamation suits
PARKERSBURG -– Three Mid-Ohio Valley residents allege recent comments posted about them on two popular social networking sites were anything but social. -
Worker sues CSX for injuries sustained in derailment
PARKERSBURG – A CSX Transportation employee is suing the railroad giant for injuries sustained on the job while working in Wetzel County in August. -
Police officer sues McDonald's franchisee over blood-laced order
This McDonald's restaurant on Ohio Avenue in Parkersburg is where Matthew Board alleges he found droplets of blood in his drive-thru order in 2008. (Photo by Lawrence Smith) PARKERSBURG -– A Parkersburg police officer is suing a McDonald's restaurant for effectively turning his drive-thru order into a crime scene. -
Doctor, government agencies sued over clogged storm drain
Water that accumulated at this building on Camden Avenue in Parkersburg is what Steven and Debra Momish say later flooded into their apartment across the street. (Photo by Lawrence Smith) PARKERSBURG – A Wood county couple allege a physician, the city of Parkersburg, the Wood County Commission and the state of West Virginia share responsibility for water damage their apartment sustained earlier this year. -
Fight at Wood strip club leads to lawsuits
PARKERSBURG – According to recently filed lawsuits, the scene last year at a Wood County bar named after a hip 1950s detective television show co-staring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. resembled something akin to that of the Double Duce –- the bar at the center of the 1989 Patrick Swayze movie "Roadhouse."