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  • Cotton v. Prodigies Child Care Management, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-08-01
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Autry, Blaine Norris, (Blaine A. Norris PC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: M. Heath, Matthew, (Cowsert & Avery, LLP), Athens, Matthew Moffett, (Gray, Rust, St. Amand Moffett & Brieske, LLP), Atlanta, John Schultz, (Wood Craig Miller, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1457

    Court affirms summary judgment for employer, finding no vicarious liability for employee's actions during lunch break

  • Prodigies Child Care Management, LLC, d/b/a University Childcare Center v. Cotton

    Publication Date: 2023-11-03
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Glenn Moffett, Matthew Ryan Del Campo, (Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Blaine Alexander Norris, John R Autry, (Blaine A. Norris, PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0914

    Court rules that there is no special circumstances exception to the doctrine of respondeat superior and that a basic analysis applies in all instances

  • North American Senior Benefits, LLC v. Wimmer et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hayes, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Thaddeus Wilson, Zachary McEntyre, Valentin Leppert, Andrew Chinsky, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Mokotoff, Leslie Hartnett, (FordHarrison, LLP), Atlanta, Abigail Larimer, (Morris Manning & Martin LLP), Atlanta, Benjamin Fryer, Charlotte, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0162

    Court affirms that a restrictive covenant which prohibits solicitation of employees but lacks explicit geographic limitations is not enforceable under Georgia law

  • Cotton v. Prodigies Child Care Management, LLC, d/b/a University Childcare Center

    Publication Date: 2022-03-21
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Autry, Blaine Norris, (Blaine A. Norris, PC d/b/a Norris Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: M. Heath, Matthew Moseley, (Cowsert & Avery, LLP), Athens, Matthew Moffett, John Schultz, (Gray Rust St. Amand Moffett Brieske LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1457

    Court reverses summary judgment that had been in an employer's favor in a personal injury case, finding evidence of possible special circumstances for vicarious liability

  • Johnson v. Avis Rent A Car System, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-26
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Brian Terry, Christopher Todd Giovinazzo, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Amanda Kay Seals, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Michael Lawson Neff, Darryl Dwayne Adams, Susan Mary Cremer, Timothy Shane Peagler, (The Law Offices of Michael Lawson Neff, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brantley Cole Rowlen, Jason Phillip Wright, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, George Lee Welborn, (Downey, Cleveland, Parker & Williams), Marietta, William T. Casey, Jr., (Swift Currie Mcghee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. John David Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Nathan Alexander Gaffney, (Fried Rogers Goldberg), Lyle Griffin Warshauer, (Warshauer Law Group, P.C.), Atlanta, Brian DeVoe Rogers, (Rogers & Fite, LLC), Atlanta, Darren Wade Penn, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant. Mark Behrens, Caroline Marie Gieser, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP), Atlanta, Philip Wade Savrin, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Alexia B. Ruffner Roney, (Nall & Miller, LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey S. Ward, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Brunswick, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Jennifer Burch Dempsey, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G0695

    Tortfeasor's intervening criminal conduct caused plaintiff's injuries, and defendant rental car company was not liable for plaintiffs' injuries

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  • Advanced Disposal Services Atlanta, LLC. v. Marczak et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Dixon, Melody Demasi, (Dennis, Corry, Porter & Smith, L.L.P.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Calabro, (Attorney at Law), Roswell, Stephen Berger, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, Marina Melman, (Melman Law Group), Roswell, for appellee. James Strawinski, (Strawinski & Stout, P. C.), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A0180

    Court affirms denial of summary judgment on respondeat superior and negligent training claims, and reverses order granting summary judgment on negligent retention

  • Dellinger-Allen et al. v. O'Brien

    Publication Date: 2020-07-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Bachman, (Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Joseph Shelley, (Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Aaron Kappler, (Thompson, O'Brien, Kemp & Nasuti, P.C.), Peachtree Corners, Aaron O'brien, (Thompson O'Brien), Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0087

    Court affirms the striking of a defamation claim but reverses the striking of a breach of contract claim in a dispute involving contractual professional counseling services

  • 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.

  • Mughni v. Beyond Management Group, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eliyahu Wolfe, (Wolfe Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank DeMelfi, Christopher Vaughn, (The Vaughn Law Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A2129

    Arbitration award reopened for appeal where trial court denied defendant a full statutory opportunity to file an appeal

  • Lucas v. Beckman Coulter, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-27
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A16A0772

    Employer has no vicarious liability for employee's accidental shooting of a third party.