Michael Terry, 'The Guy Everybody Turns To'
Adam Malone of Malone Law said this: “He's protected big verdicts, and he's gone the other way, too, He stands for the right side of the law.”
June 28, 2018 at 02:21 PM
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Michael Terry, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta (Photo: John Disney/ALM)- A $35 million damages award in a premises liability case against Six Flags Over Georgia for Joshua Martin, who was attacked by a gang outside the park after it closed—extending the limits to areas a company controls.
- A $40 million award for the family of Remi Walden against Fiat Chrysler for a rear-mounted gas tank that exploded on impact and killed the 4-year-old boy in a case for which the jury awarded $150 million.
- A challenge to an arbitration clause that paved the way for certification of a class action lawsuit by 400,000 customers over allegedly exorbitant bank overdraft fees in Bickerstaff v. SunTrust.
- Reversal of a dismissal of a wrongful death claim arising from the release of a patient from a mental health facility in Curles v. Psychiatric Sols., Inc., 343 Ga. App. 719 (2017). The case established that such facilities owe a duty to others besides the patient, if they knew or should have known the patient was likely to cause bodily harm to others.
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