By Cedra Mayfield | November 8, 2022
Arguments by Moultrie and Valdosta attorneys before the Supreme Court of Georgia Tuesday could help the court clarify whether equitable exceptions clear the way for adult children to bring wrongful death actions when their late parent's surviving spouses opt not to sue.
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By Allison Dunn | November 2, 2022
"A distillation of the precedent on this topic leaves the Court with the following principle: death caused by a drug overdose will only be an expected or intended harm if either the provision of drugs is so 'inherently harmful' that death by overdose would be a natural consequence, or Imran Iqbal had actual knowledge that the drugs were harmful enough that Elle Migneault might perish as a result of taking them," wrote U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the District of Connecticut.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | October 27, 2022
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation autopsy found that Ethan Pope died from mitragynine intoxication and had no alcohol or illegal drugs in his system. Mitragynine is a psychoactive compound in kratom, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
By Mason Lawlor | October 27, 2022
"A property owner is not an insurer of social guests, and the Whiteheads are not presumed to be negligent "merely because [Tamira] sustained [her] injury while rightfully on their premises."
By Quentin Brogdon | October 26, 2022
Statutes of limitation in wrongful death cases can be confusing and seemingly contradictory. Limitations do not begin to run until the date of death in some cases, but limitations begin to run even before death in other cases.
By ALM Staff | October 24, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 21, 2022
The trial, in Los Angeles Superior Court, could provide the first verdict involving CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in NCAA football players.
By Cedra Mayfield | October 20, 2022
"The decision to protect the public through this type of system is a discretionary one," argued appellee attorney Terry E. Williams of Williams, Morris and Waymire. "Even a failure to go punch the button still involves the exercise under that umbrella of the discretionary function."
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By Aleeza Furman | October 19, 2022
The high court's Tuesday order granting the defendant's petition for appeal in Kramer v. Nationwide Property and Casualty Insurance addresses a rationale that, according to the plaintiffs' lawyer Kevin Cornish, the Superior Court had raised on its own accord.
By Michael A. Mora | October 19, 2022
"In an age of active shooters, this store chose not to have security despite the multiple gun deaths in their stores in recent years," Sean Domnick, a shareholder at Domnick Cunningham & Whalen, said.
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