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

    Publication Date: 2019-12-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Casey, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Brantley Rowlen, Victoria Waller, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, Robert Shannon, (Baker Donelson), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Darryl Adams, (Law Offices of Michael L. Neff), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Terry, Amanda Seals, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Michael Neff, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee. George Welborn, (Downey, Cleveland, Parker & Williams), Marietta, American Car Rental Association, Atlanta, William Custer, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, for other party. Brittany Wilson, (Shook, Hardy, & Bacon L.L.P.), San Francisco, Andrew Trask, (Shook, Hardy, & Bacon L.L.P.), Los Angeles, Mark Behrens, (Shook, Hardy, & Bacon L.L.P.), Washington, for AM.
    Case Number: A19A0928

    Car thief's criminal act was the intervening proximate cause of a party's injuries, and car rental company was not directly or vicariously liable for negligence

  • In/Ex Systems, Inc. v. Masud et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-16
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole Leet, Michael Rust, (Gray Rust St. Amand Moffett Brieske, LLP), Atlanta, William Strickland, (Temple, Strickland, Dinges & Schwartz), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Rogers, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, M. Baig, (The Baig Firm), Norcross, Joseph Cruser, Craig Terrett, (Cruser & Mitchell, LLP), Norcross, Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Jason Hammer, (Lueder Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Atlanta, Elissa Haynes, (Goodman McGuffey LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A19A0805

    Defendant's employer is not vicariously liable for injuries caused by employee's actions when plaintiff failed to show employee's negligence.

  • Smith et al. v. Camarena et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-13
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carson Jeffries, (Carter Jeffries, LLC), Atlanta, Ralph Perales, (Perales & Fernandez, LLP), Atlanta, Greg Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Allred, William Barrickman, (Barrickman, Allred & Young, LLC), Atlanta, Lloyd Hedrick, (Hedrick Law LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1396

    Triable Issue of Fact As To Whether Employee Was Shot and Killed in Parking Lot During Course and Scope of Employment

  • Little et al. v. Jim-Lar Corporation et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-12
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Evidence | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reginald Greene, (Greene Legal Group LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brantley Rowlen, Robert Marcovitch, Kristin Roquemore, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1169

    No Error in Trial Court's Determination That Plaintiff's Verified Interrogatory Responses Were Inadmissible Due to Her Incompetence

  • Zakas v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2019-12-10
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Luskin, Elissa Haynes, (Goodman, McGuffey, Lindsey & Johnson LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Robert Coker, (Attorney at Law), Duluth, Makenzie McAllister, (Bross McAllister & Williams, LLC), Suwannee, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1263

    Defendant waived issue of whether trial court applied a proper legal standard in limiting expert testimony on cause of a plaintiff's injuries

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  • Board of Trustees of Georgia Military College v. O'Donnell

    Publication Date: 2019-12-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Bunner, Christopher Carr, Kathleen Pacious, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Caleb Walker, (Katherine L. McArthur, LLC), Macon, Katherine McArthur, Jessica Edmonds, (McArthur Law Firm), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1312

    State military college had sovereign immunity to tort claims brought by a student under the discretionary function exception to waiver of immunity

  • Handberry et al. v. Manning Forestry Services, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-12-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caleb Walker, (Katherine L. McArthur, LLC), Macon, Katherine McArthur, (McArthur Law Firm), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Britton White, G. White, (Brennan, Harris & Rominger LLP), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1321

    Circumstantial evidence was insufficient to create an issue of fact as to knowledge of the existence of an open well in a survivor's negligence action against a contractor

  • City of Albany v. Dougherty County

    Publication Date: 2019-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Sweat, (Gardner, Willis, Sweat & Handelman, LLP), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Lewis, Lillian Bittick, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, for appellee. Jon-Selby Hawk, (Jon R. Hawk Sr. LLC), Macon, Hugh Morris, (Attorney at Law), Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: A19A1406

    Trial Court Properly Rejected City's Sovereign Immunity Claim in its Motion to Dismiss County's Cross-Claim For Contractual Indemnity

  • Matta-Troncoso et al. v. Tyner

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce Millar, (The Millar Law Firm), Jonesboro, James Sullivan, (Attorney at Law), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Kendall, Kimberly Mowbray, (Kendall Law Group, LLC), Douglasville, for appellee. Michael D. Thornton, Lakeisha L. Thornton, Stockbridge, for other party.
    Case Number: A17A0734

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of landlord, who had no liability for injuries caused by a tenant's dog.

  • Ward v. Marriott International, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adanna Ugwonali, (Attorney at Law), Sandy Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stevan Miller, Gwendolyn Havlik, (Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Woods, (Law Office of James C. McLaughlin), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0826

    Court reverses dismissal of negligence action, ruling that the trial court had personal jurisdiction over foreign corporation