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  • Priester v. Turner et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-24
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter Adams, (Attorney at Law), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman Pearson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, Karl Broder, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1465

    Court reverses summary judgment dismissal of an independent loss of consortium complaint filed by a spouse, ruling it was not barred by the procedural dismissal of her husband's personal injury action

  • Bradley v. Westrock CP, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-18
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip Bradley, Petersburg, for appellant.
    for defendant: Colin Kelly, Timia Skelton, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1236

    Court partially reverses summary judgment in a negligence suit, finding that personal injury claims for negligence and design defects were not barred by res judicata based on prior property damage suit

  • Knight v. Senoia Raceway Management, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-30
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Phillips, (Law Office of Johnny Phillips), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lonnie Haralson, (Lonnie J. Haralson, IV P.C.), Lagrange, Melissa McMullen, Brian Neary, (Webb, Zschunke, Neary, Dikeman, LLP), Atlanta, Andrei Ionescu, (Bloom Parham, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0878

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of a raceway in a personal injury case, finding that race participant assumed the risk of injury and rejecting his other supporting claims

  • McCloud v. Lowndes County Board of Commissioners et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-29
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley Robinson, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Elliott, (Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding, P. C.), Valdosta, for appellee; Jeremy Willis, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman), Valdosta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0683

    Court vacates sovereign-immunity based dismissal of personal injury lawsuit against a Lowndes County employee and remands for clarification of procedural and evidentiary matters

  • Matthews v. Oskouei

    Publication Date: 2023-11-16
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd Hedrick, (Hedrick Law LLC), Atlanta, Scott McMickle, (McMickle, Kurey & Branch, L.L.P.), Alpharetta, Parks Stone, Michael Manfredi, Eleanor Jolley, (Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Yasha Heidari, Yenniffer Delgado, (Heidari Power Law Group LLC), Atlanta, Chenyu Li, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0863

    Court reverses denial of attorney's motion to strike a defamation lawsuit under the anti-SLAPP statute, finding that defendant did not establish that plaintiff would prevail on a libel and slander claim

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  • Contour Sierra, LLC v. Williams et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-15
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Taube, Peter Munk, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarbrough, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Clay, (Pratt Clay, LLC), Atlanta, Bradley Pratt, Christopher Lambden, (Bayuk Pratt, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1079

    Well-Pled Complaint Allegations Supported Claims on Default for Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress

  • Traba et al v. Gregory B. Levett and Sons Funeral Home, Inc et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd Propst, (Law Office of Floyd E. Propst), Ridgeway, for appellant.
    for defendant: Adam Joffe, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Thomas Tidwell, Luciana Aquino, (Cozen O’Connor - Philadelphia, TX), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1162

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of funeral home where decedent's siblings failed to exercise their right to direct disposition of remains within the statutorily-allotted three days

  • Carr v. Yim

    Publication Date: 2023-11-09
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Dwyer, (Dwyer Law Group), Atlanta, James Neuberger, (Neuberger Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn Tornillo, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Peachtree Corners, Candice Bryant, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0687

    Injured party in a negligence case was not entitled to attorney fees and litigation expenses because she did not serve a valid settlement offer in a renewal action after dismissing her original complaint

  • 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

  • Golden Peanut Company, LLC et al. v. Miller et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-31
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James King, (The King Firm), Tifton, Joseph Hudson, (Hudson Injury Firm), Tifton, Bree Sullivan, (The Sullivan Firm), Thomasville, Leland Kynes, (Kynes Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Kyle, (Bovis, Kyle & Burch), Atlanta, Michael Caplan, Timothy Waddell, (Caplan Cobb, LLP), Atlanta, Danielle Le Jeune, Tia Ghattas, Amy Doig, Josh Greenbaum, (Cozen O'connor), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1270

    Court of Appeals vacates its prior judgment and vacates a trial court order denying a motion to exclude testimony based on Supreme Court's decision as to expert testimony in a vehicle accident case