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Tennessee Court Reinstates Some of Plaintiff's Med Mal Claims Due to Ongoing Treatment

"From our reading of Mr. Vandergriff's complaint, several of the alleged actions and inactions that constituted the purported medical malpractice in the present case occurred after [April 14]," the appeals judge wrote. "The statute of limitations does not serve as bar to his lawsuit as to those incidents because Mr. Vandergriff filed his lawsuit within a year of their occurrence."
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Daily Report Online

Ex-Ga. Chief Justice Forecasts Legal Trends, Offers Insight Into Appellate Practice

"I think premises liability issues are going to be really big going forward," former chief justice Harold Melton said.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Supreme Court Suspends Miami Founding Partner

The prominent attorney's recent troubles with the Florida Bar stemmed from a complaint filed against him by a former client.
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Daily Business Review

Miami Boutique Haber Law Absorbs Smaller Firm, Expanding Into Niche Condo Practice

"You can organically grow, which is very painful," said Haber Law managing partner David Haber. "Alternatively, you can join forces with someone else that already has that infrastructure."
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Profile Reveals Path to Partner

"He has been an incredible asset. He is now one of our key leaders in class actions and complex litigation," said Harley Tropin, Co-Founding partner Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Court Set to Decide Whether Staffing Agency or Insurer Must Pay Out Workers' Comp Claims

"Opposing counsel will literally talk about every other moment except the moment of injury," the appellants argued, while the appellees pointed out that the case has now been litigated by six different courts through which they have thus far prevailed.
4 minute read

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Mississippi Court Sides With Motorist in Time-Barred Bad Faith Claim Against GEICO

Although the Mississippi borrowing statute enforces a Louisiana prescription's barring of UM benefits if the claim accrued in Louisiana, the court found that it does not address which state's law would apply to any "substantive issues" in the case, that were not raised or decided in the trial court.
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Daily Report Online

Federal Lawsuit Against Morehouse College Alleges Pattern of Failing to Address Sexual-Assault Complaints

A federal lawsuit has accused Morehouse College in Atlanta of unlawfully dismissing a formal Title IX complaint of sexual assault against one of its students for allegedly adding a sexual stimulant to another student's alcohol without her knowledge in order to commit rape.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Not A Lot of Deal Work': Law Firms Add More Litigators Compared With Corporate Laterals

Southeast law firms are being cautious amid continued economic uncertainty, adding more lawyers in counter-cyclical practice areas than those in transactional.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Physician for MLB Team to Face Trial After Florida's Sixth DCA Strikes Down Arbitration

"There's been a significant trend towards enforcing arbitration agreements, so this is a particularly interesting opinion where the court found the arbitration agreement did not apply," said Michael Levine, a partner at Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain.
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