Greg Land

August 20, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The lawyers for a man shot during a 2015 robbery at a southwest Atlanta townhome complex asked the Court of Appeals to affirm a trial judge's ruling that earlier robberies and break-ins on the support nuisance and premises liability claims.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

August 19, 2021 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said the insurer's response to a woman's demand letter laying down conditions for paying the claim constituted a "counteroffer," creating a jury issue of whether the carrier acted in bad faith.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 18, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Commercial trucking injury specialist Andrew Goldner and Josh Stein recently settled two similar cases involving woman injured in tractor-trailer wrecks, each for more than $2 million.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

August 17, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The now-retired special education teacher's doctor confirmed that his patient suffered from multiple maladies including diabetes, hypertension and anxiety, but administrators refused to transfer him to a similar, less-stressful job.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 12, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The parents of Georgia Tech student Scott 'Scout' Schultz sued the Board of Regents and the officer who shot Schultz in 2017, claiming a lack of training on how to handle people suffering from mental illness led to the engineering student's death.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 12, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers for the owners of the Pappadeaux and Pappasito's restaurants in Marietta and a co-defendant security company argued that the Georgia Court of Appeals should toss a premises liability lawsuit filed by the widow of man who was murdered a 2016 robbery that also left her with a gunshot wound.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 10, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Ruling in a legal malpractice case against Alston & Bird, the Georgia Supreme Court said the state's apportionment statute does not provide for a reduction in damages commensurate with a finding of non-party fault in single-defendant cases.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

August 09, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Even before the pandemic labor shop Barrett & Farahany had shifted to a cloud-based, largely paperless operation. After the COVID-19 shutdown, the firm decided to give up its Midtown offices and go almost completely remote, with lawyers and staff in multiple states working from home—or the beach.

By Greg Land

7 minute read

August 05, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Zacharias, an evangelical minister who had worldwide followers and died in May 2020, was found to have sexually abused and exploited numerous women over a period of years in an investigation commissioned by his ministry after his death.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 04, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The ex-wife and co-defendants of indicted former Board of Regents member Dean Alford asked Middle District Judge Clay Land to toss out civil claims alleging a multi-million dollar pyramid scheme, but he declined to do so.

By Greg Land

4 minute read