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  • Daly et al. v. Berryhill et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-29
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wiley A. Wasden, (Brennan & Wasden LLP), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent J. Savage, Kathryn Hughes Pinckney, (Savage Turner & Pinckney PC), Savannah, for appellee. Martin Adam Levinson, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Garret Warrington Meader, Hall F. McKinley, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, David Norton Nelson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S19G0499

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Giving Jury Instruction on Assumption of Risk, as There Was at Least Slight Evidence to Warrant the Instruction

  • Owensby v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-06-23
    Practice Area: Evidence | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Norman Sawyer, (Litner + Deganian), Atlanta, Douglas Chanco, (Chanco Schiffer Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Ruplin, (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, Russell Waldon, (Waldon Adelman Castilla Hiestand & Prout), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0652

    Portions of Medical Narrative on Personal Injury Plaintiff's Condition and Prognosis Ruled Inadmissible as Too Vague and Speculative Were, in Fact, Admissible; Case Remanded

  • Thompkins, et al. v. Gonzalez-Nunez

    Publication Date: 2020-06-18
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald Coleman, (Ronald R. Coleman, Jr., P. C.), Sandy Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ruben Cruz, (Cruz & Associates), Atlanta, Richard Taylor, (Taylor & Viers,P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0522

    Trial Court in Negligence Action Erred in Rejecting Employer's Assumption-of-the-Risk Defense; Injured Employee Had Specific Knowledge of the Work

  • Green v. Baldwin County Board of Commissioners et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce Dutcher, (Assistant District Attorney Atlanta Circuit), Atlanta, George Weaver, (Hollberg & Weaver, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0140

    Court affirms summary judgment order for a County, and for a County sheriff that did not receive a timely notice of a personal injury claim

  • Brenner v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-28
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Drake, (Drake and Estes Law Firm), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna Szabo, Christopher DeNeve, Brian Whiteside, (Gwinnett County Solicitor-General's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0584

    Defendant Failed to Preserve Basis for His Objection to Testimony or Ruling That Presumably Occurred During Off-the-Record Bench Conference

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  • Gwinnett County, GA v. Ashby

    Publication Date: 2020-05-28
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tuwanda Williams, Tracy Lettsome, (Gwinnett County Law Department), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Semra Kebede, Anthony Showell (Law Office of W. Bryant Green, III, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee. Craig White, (Skedsvold and White, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A0602

    Personal Injury Plaintiff Failed to Establish That County Waived its Sovereign Immunity Under the Recreational Property Act

  • Sprowson v. Villalobos

    Publication Date: 2020-05-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashley Alfonso, Timothy Lemke, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Noble Boykin, (Jones, Boykin & Associates), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2279

    Court reverses denial of employee's summary judgment motion because temporary employee's sole tort remedy was under the Workers' Compensation Act.

  • Williams Investment Company v. Girardot

    Publication Date: 2020-05-18
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Thagard, Halton Albritton, (Young Thagard Hoffman Smith Lawrence & Shenton LLP), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric Milles, (Milles Law), Tallahassee, for appellee. Sandra Foster, (Brennan, Wasden & Painter, LLC), Savannah, Tracie Macke, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for AM.
    Case Number: A20A0649

    Hotel Entitled to Summary Judgment in Personal Injury Case; Injured Guest Has Equal, or Superior, Knowledge of Alleged Wet Condition on Sidewalk Near Pool

  • Brown v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Bartels, (Atlanta Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith Gammage, Kenneth Kondritzer, (Fulton County Solicitor General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2359

    Court Erred in Denying Plea in Bar That Asserted Double Jeopardy Grounds After Defendant's First Trial Ended With Judge's Sua Sponte Mistrial Declaration

  • St. Jude's Recovery Center, Inc. v. Vaughn

    Publication Date: 2020-05-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin Levinson, Matthew Barr, Elliott Ream, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Clay, (Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial), Atlanta, Bradley Pratt, (Pratt Clay, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Sandra Foster, (Brennan, Wasden & Painter, LLC), Savannah, Tracie Macke, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for AM.
    Case Number: A19A2438

    Drug Treatment Facility Did Not Breach Duty of Care to Ensure Rape Victim's Safety; The Fact That a Plaintiff Was Vulnerable Does Not Make an Attack Upon Her Foreseeable