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Connecticut Law Tribune

Carter Mario Achieves $225,000 Settlement in Motor Vehicle Case

The defendant, CSAA Affinity Insurance Co., needed to provide underinsured motorist coverage to the plaintiff, but the complaint said "the defendant has failed to make any reasonable offers or to pay any compensation to the plaintiff for injuries and losses."
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Daily Report Online

Atlanta Attorneys Rely on Google Earth, YouTube for Evidence in $6M Faulty Guardrail Settlement

When a mother fatally fell over a guardrail at an Atlanta train station in February 2020, an initial police report was used as a basis to charge her boyfriend with murder for supposedly pushing her off an overpass. However, attorneys representing her daughter knew there was more to the story.
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Law.com

Contested Engineer Cleared to Testify in Defective Pistol Suit, Federal Judge Rules

Sig Sauer asked the Massachusetts court to follow the guidance of a 2021 decision from Texas federal court, which held that the contested expert did not offer a "generalized acceptance of his theory," of uncommanded firings—meaning firing without pulling the trigger—because he didn't perform functional tests.
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Law.com

'It's Got to Be a Wake-Up Call:' Atlanta Attorney Hopes $16M Verdict Spurs Training Changes at Hotels

"It's still shocking how often this happens," L. Chris Stewart of Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys in Atlanta said. "Key card security should be the number one measure if you work at that front desk, above anything else. The key cards are the priority, and it's not being taken as seriously as it should."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Couple Claims Fertility Clinic Mistakenly Destroyed Their Embryos

"There are few relationships that involve as much trust as between a couple and their fertility doctor," Tracey B. Cowan, counsel for the plaintiffs, said. "They're working together to bring children into the world. Here that trust was misplaced and betrayed, and for that, Illume and Dr. Leondires must be held accountable."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Truck Collision Defendants Claim Verdict Slip Issues Spurred Jury's $29M Award

“The award of $16 million in non-economic damages by the jury was especially egregious and obviously a direct by-product of the improper jury verdict slip, as well as confusion, mistake, and misunderstanding regarding the court’s instructions to the jury relating to damages," the defendants argued in a post-trial motion.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Delivery Driver's Slip-and-Fall Suit Slides Forward Against Equipment Rental Company

In Neyman v. Sunbelt Rentals, the court concluded a jury would have to determine whether the injured party was expected to come in contact with the wet, slippery ramp, and whether Sunbelt could have anticipated the harm that occurred.
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Daily Report Online

$6.8M Awarded to Electrocuted Employee for Improperly Marked Utilities

The verdict is believed to be the second largest personal injury verdict in Houston County history, behind a $20.5 million verdict against a pharmaceutical company in 2017.
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Law.com

State Appellate Court Affirms $2.75M Jury Verdict in Negligence Suit Against Railroad Co.

"Overfield did not need to present evidence that either the vest or the working conditions of the locomotive were inherently unsafe, or that they each constituted an independent cause of his damage, in order to submit the verdict director in the disjunctive," Missouri Appellate Judge Gary M. Gaertner said in Overfield v. BNSF Railway.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Matt Gaetz Weighs Future Role at Morgan & Morgan

"Matt has some big ideas that he believes he could work in collaboration with our firm," Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan told the Daily Business Review on Thursday.
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