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Walmart Ordered to Pay $1.2M by State Jury for Employee-Caused Injury in Georgia Store

According to a Monday press release by Morgan & Morgan, plaintiff Tammy Callihan declined Walmart's highest settlement offer of $350,000 before being awarded the seven-figure verdict.
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Daily Business Review

Summer Months Inevitably Bring In a Slew of Jet Ski Rentals, Grievous Injuries and Litigation

As the summer months yield their inevitable slew of injuries, prospective renters should be aware of the life-threatening dangers of jet skis, and their attorneys should be intimately familiar with the many regulations that were enacted to keep them safe.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Luxury Real Estate Brokers Accused of Group Rape in New Civil Lawsuit

The lawsuit does not contain any allegations of improper behavior at the brokerage firm or relative to real estate dealings.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Jury Returns $20 Million Verdict Against Honda Following Motorcycle Fire

According to the plaintiff's pretrial memo, the plaintiff had offered to settle the case for $8 million, but private mediation was unsuccessful.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Judge Cancels Impending First Trials in Glen Mills Schools Abuse Mass Tort

The cancellation comes only about a month before the first of the bellwethers was set to go before a jury.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Industry Groups Back Appeal of Ruling They Claim 'Would Effectively Abolish Venue' in Pa.

The idea "that this is some horrifying … departure from well-established Pennsylvania law is just kind of ridiculous," First Law Strategy Group partner David Senoff asserted.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Group Presses for Quicker Resolution of Child Victims Act Cases, Claiming Backlog

The Office of Court Administration pushed back, saying court leaders are prioritizing these complicated cases that often involve decades-old allegations.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'There's No Magic Sauce': Why Georgia's Rural Verdicts Are on the Rise

"I think one mistake that plaintiffs lawyers are also guilty of is [treating] rural people like they're different and they're not," said plaintiffs attorney Matt Cathey.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Supreme Court Majority Issues Bright-Line Rule: All Commercial Property Owners Have a Duty to Maintain Abutting Sidewalks

"Indeed, when someone purchases a vacant commercial lot, that is a business decision that embraces all the attendant costs and burdens of conducting business," Associate Justice Fabiana Pierre-Louis said. "We conclude that one of those costs necessarily includes maintaining the abutting sidewalks so that they are in a reasonably safe condition for innocent passersby."
5 minute read

National Law Journal

'Bulldog' DC Trial Lawyer Honored for Challenging Caps and Hurdles for Plaintiffs

Allan Siegel has collected over $30 million on behalf of injured clients over the last two years and continues going to bat for injured parties in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, according to his colleagues.
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