In what the plaintiff’s attorney said was a case of first impression, a Virginia state appeals court ruled that a North Carolina medical center’s rendering of virtual treatment to a Virginia man was not sufficient to allow it to be sued in Virginia.

The plaintiff—executor of the man’s estate—failed to meet her burden of establishing the existence of personal jurisdiction under the long arm statute, the Court of Appeals of Virginia held March 7.

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