• 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

  • Star Residential, LLC et al. v. Hernandez

    Publication Date: 2020-05-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie Ellis, Warner Fox, Elliott Ream, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sidney Moore, (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Warren Smith, William Smith, (W. Calvin Smith, II, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee. Jacob Daly, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for AM.

    Case Number: A19A2267

    Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act Applies to Personal Injury Negligence Per Se Claim Against Property Owner and Operator

  • Harvey et al. v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-05-08
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Damages | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, Roger Harris, Douglas Clayton, (Swift, Currie, Mcghee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Bruce Kirbo, (Attorney at Law), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Erwin, Alfred Powell, (Powell & Erwin, P.C.), Camilla, W. McCall, Henry Williams, (Mccall WILLIAMS, LLC), Albany, Gregory Williams, (The Law Offices of Gregory Terrell Williams LLC), Camilla, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A2217

    Plaintiff's Closing Argument Violated Trial Court's Admonition Not to Enflame Jurors' Emotions

  • Dutt v. Mannar and Company, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-05-07
    Practice Area: Entertainment and Sports Law | Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Lloyd Hoffspiegel, Alexander Hoffspiegel, (Hoffspiegel & Associates), Atlanta, Bret Moore, (Broughton Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Schroder, Sabrina Atkins, Emily Marshall, (Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A2130

    Fitness Center Employee Had No Duty to Call 911 After Participant In Free Training Class Began Experiencing Chest Pain

  • Daily Underwriters of America v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-05-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent Estes, (Dennis, Corry, Smith & Dixon, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Derek Nuce, (Singleton, Pasley & Nuce, LLC), Thomaston, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A2101

    Joinder of Interstate Motor Carrier's Insurer as Defendant in Underlying Tort Action Was Authorized Under State Statute

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  • Burgundy Guzman, as Surviving Spouse of Paul Guzman et al. v. Link

    Publication Date: 2020-05-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Shiver, R. Campbell, Alan Hamilton, Margaret Randels, (Shiver Hamilton, LLC), Waycross, Angela Fox, Darren Summerville, Maxwell Thelen, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Michael Gumprecht, (The Gumprecht Law Firm), Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Bryant, Alan Meincke, Steven Kyle, Charles Medlin, (Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1651

    Family Purpose Doctrine May Not Be Used Defensively to Impute Liability for Negligence So As to Bar or Reduce Recovery Arising From Car Accident Death

  • Henry et al. v. Atlanta Gas Light Company

    Publication Date: 2020-04-28
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Toxic Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Protentis, (Protentis Law LLC), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Eric Miller, (Miller Bonham LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alexandra Nelson, Seth Litman, John McDonald, (Thompson Hine LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1990

    Court Properly Held That Injuries From Gas Explosion Did Not Arise From a Breach of Duty by Gas Company, Which Had No Knowledge of the Hazard

  • Patterson et al. v. Wright et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-24
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Zagoria, Brooks Neely, (The Zagoria Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Prout, Casey Brown, (Waldon Adelman Castilla Hiestand & Prout), Atlanta, Rachel Sullivan, Michael Kendall, (Kendall Law Group, LLC), Douglasville, Jason Hammer, Jefferson Starr, (Lueder Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Joseph Cruser, (Cruser & Mitchell, L.L.P.), Norcross, for other party

    Case Number: A19A1714

    Court affirms summary judgment as to certain defendants and reverses as to other defendants in a wrongful death and negligence car crash case

  • Cleveland v. Sentinel Insurance Company, Ltd et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Helen Cleveland, (Cleveland Gilbreath, LLC), Atlanta, Kathleen Simcoe, Theodore Pound, (Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Schroder, Shannon Schlottmann, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers), Atlanta, Harold Hilton, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Sean Ryan, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Pearson Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith), Atlanta, for appellee

    Case Number: A19A2384

    Personal Injury Plaintiff Failed to Show That Trial Court Erred in Excluding Doctor's Expert Testimony, as She Failed to Show its Admissibility

  • Keen v. Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Company

    Publication Date: 2020-04-21
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Holland, Jessie Harrell, (Harrell and Harrell), Jacksonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amanda Morris, Mark Toth, (Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A2154

    Personal Injury Plaintiff Submitted Enough Evidence to Survive Summary Judgment on Duty and Breach Elements of Negligence Claim Under FELA