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  • United Am. Ins. Co. v. Insurance Dep't of the State of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Shackelford, Robert M. Keenan III, Byron Attridge King & Spaulding, Atlanta, and Charles A. Dauphin Baxley, Dillard, Dauphin & McKnight, Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Deputy Attorney General, Harold D. Melton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Christopher M. Bethel Governor's Office of Consumers' Ins. Advocate, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A02A1006

    Medsup insurer's must use a reasonable interest assumption in determining their loss ratio—the rate of premium dollars collected to claim dollars

  • Georgia Dep't of Community Health v. Freels

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Charles E. Hoffecker, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Rosetti Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1160

    The state department of community health applied the wrong legal standard in denying a petition for Medicaid reimbursement for experimental cerebral palsy treat

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel A. Summer Summer & Summer and Elizabeth B. Reisman, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, Lisa A. Jones and Jennifer C. Bagwell, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0595

    Hispanics were not underrepresented on Hall County's traverse jury list, despite a presumptively prejudicial 14.5 percent disparity between the 2000 Census and the master trial jury list, since only

  • Carlton v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert L. Watson, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin, District Attorney, Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2268

    Newt v. State, 190 Ga. App. 301 1989 is overruled since it conflicts with the U. S. Supreme Court's interpretation that a detainer based upon a warrant for pending criminal charges triggers the prot

  • Department of Transp., State of Ga. v. Montgomery Tank Lines Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-01-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, and Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stefan C. Passantino, James A. Gober, and Trevor A. Parssinen Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Curiae: John H. Peavy Jr. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A01A1656; A101A1657

    Where the Department of Transportation can be named as a defendant in an underlying wrongful death action, sovereign immunity is waived for contribution and indemnification c

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  • Garden Club of Ga. v. Shackelford

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Bowers, T Joshua R. Archer, Christopher S. Anulewicz Meadows, Ichter & Trigg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Ray O. Lerer, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Cathy A. Cox-Brakefield, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Denmark Groover Jr. and Duke R. Groover Groover & Childs, Macon, for appellees. Amicus Appellant, Arthur H. Domby, Troutman Sanders, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A0771

    The DOT's rules allowing for the trimming of trees and vegetation on highway rights-of-way to permit the viewing of outdoor advertising signs on private property violated the Georgia Constitution's

  • Department of Transp., State of Ga. v. Montgomery Tank Lines Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, and Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stefan C. Passantino, James A. Gober, and Trevor A. Parssinen Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Curiae: John H. Peavy Jr. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A01A1656; A101A1657

    Where the Department of Transportation can be named as a defendant in an underlying wrongful death action, sovereign immunity is waived for contribution and indemnification c

  • State Soil & Water Conservation Comm'n v. Stricklett

    Publication Date: 2001-11-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Augustus T. Curtis, Athens, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Denise E. Whiting-Pack, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for State Soil and Water Conservation Commission. Kerry S. Doolittle, Watkinsville, for the Strickletts. Other party representation: Mary A. Oakley Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: A01A1364; A01A1365

    A factual question remained as to whether construction of defendants' home substantially interfered with the plaintiffs' nonexclusive easement right to safely operate and maintain

  • Buckalew v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Ford Ford & Ford PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leslie C. Abernathy, Solicitor, and Inez D. Grant, Assistant Solicitor, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1817

    Evidence showing that defendant had a blood alcohol level of .134 less than three hours after the officers saw him operating a boat on a public lake supported his per se convi

  • Hobbs v. Western Surety Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles M. Leverett Bush, Crowley, Leverett & Leggett, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry M. Hall and Thomas W. Joyce Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1832

    E administrator failed to show that surety acted in bad faith in settling a tax claim after the federal government sued the surety to recover taxes owed by the e