PATTERSON v. CITY OF DANVILLE

Record No. 210509.

875 S.E.2d 65 (2022)

Kareem PATTERSON, Personal Representative of the Estate of Langston Patterson, Deceased v. CITY OF DANVILLE, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

July 7, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carrol M. Ching ( John P. Fishwick, Jr. ; Daniel J. Martin ; Fishwick & Associates, Roanoke, on briefs), for appellant.

Julie S. Palmer ( Stanley P. Wellman ; Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman, Glen Allen, on brief), for appellee Laurence Shu-Chung Wang, M.D.

PRESENT: Goodwyn, C.J., Powell, Kelsey, McCullough, and Chafin, JJ., and Koontz, S.J.


Langston Patterson died a few months after suffering from cardiac arrest while an inmate in the Danville Adult Detention Center ("DADC"). The personal representative of Patterson's estate sued the DADC physician, Dr. Laurence Shu-Chung Wang, claiming that Dr. Wang committed medical malpractice by failing to provide...

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