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February 02, 2010 |

Verdicts & Settlements: Firm succeeds against botched surgery claim

January was a win-some, lose-some month for defense shop Huff, Powell Bailey, whose lawyers beat back one medical malpractice suit in Fulton County only to be hit with a $4.3 million plaintiffs' verdict in DeKalb County 10 days later.On Jan. 16, a Fulton County jury returned a defense verdict in the case of 55-year-old Cynthia Smith, who died Dec.
10 minute read
June 01, 2012 |

Death during 3-way sex nets $3M verdict

The way the plaintiffs lawyers figured it, a 31-year-old Atlanta police officer's night of adulterous three-way sex in a motel room cost his widow and two young children $2 million out of the medical malpractice verdict they won for his fatal heart attack.
5 minute read
January 14, 2009 |

In The Trenches: Ballard Spahr taps biotech group leader

Patent prosecutor Mary Anthony "Mary An" Merchant has left Troutman Sanders, where she headed the life sciences patent group, to lead the biotech group for Ballard Spahr Andrews Ingersoll's intellectual property practice-officially the Needle Rosenberg IP Practice.The Philadelphia-based general practice firm acquired a full-service IP practice when it merged with Needle Rosenberg last July.
4 minute read
April 11, 2011 |

DUI wreck yields $30,000 in punitive damages

A routine fender-bender case in Gwinnett County that yielded $30,000 in punitive damages last month may be a gauge of how conservative, suburban juries view civil suits stemming from drunken collisions, attorneys for both sides said.Plaintiff Amber Hand was a passenger in a Honda Civic that was stopped at a traffic light at the end of the I-85 North exit ramp onto Steve Reynold Boulevard when it was struck from behind by a truck July 24, 2009.
8 minute read
October 30, 2007 |

Court: 'Harsh' law means med mal suit is too late

The state's highest court on Monday split 4 to 3 in ruling against an AIDS patient whose doctors allegedly misdiagnosed his condition for years.Even though Derek Canas' parents filed the suit on their son's behalf less than a year after doctors diagnosed him with AIDS, the state Supreme Court ruled that the two-year statute of limitations and five-year statute of repose for medical malpractice claims barred the suit.
6 minute read
August 18, 2003 |

Mother Sues Over Teen Inmate's Suicide

Richmond [email protected] Jan. 5, 2002, Gerard D. Glenn, a 14-year-old inmate at the Metro Regional Youth Development Center in DeKalb, tried to call his family on the phone, watched a movie in the dayroom and told companions he was going to kill himself.Shortly before 10 o'clock that night, an inmate on cleaning duty found Glenn swinging by the neck from a bedsheet noose double knotted to a sprinkler pipe.
8 minute read
August 17, 2010 |

Defamation suit against lawyer, PR firm tossed

A Fulton County judge has scuttled a defamation suit brought against a local attorney, his former firm and a public relations company over comments the lawyer made when filing an earlier, unsuccessful suit against an energy company.The Aug. 9 order by Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford ruled that the comments made by David L.
5 minute read
December 02, 2004 |

Split Court OKs Malpractice Suit Against Lawyer

5 minute read
April 02, 2007 |

Verdicts & Settlements: $5M awarded to injured man eager to get back to work

A HALL COUNTY jury awarded $5 million to a man who fell some 18 feet from a ladder as he worked on an indoor crane, fracturing his skull on the concrete floor.Jason Pope's injuries, along with his determination to get back to work despite them, seemed to impress the jury, said attorney David N. Krugler, who represented Pope along with Andrew B.
5 minute read
December 22, 2010 |

Deceased inmate's wife settles case

The wife of a man who died after being strapped into a restraining chair for 14 hours at the Coweta County Jail has reached a $525,000 settlement with the county to dismiss claims that jailers and medical staff ignored her husband's worsening medical condition as well as the chair maker's warning against using it for more than two hours.
9 minute read

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