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  • Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Crutchfield

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Hannan III and Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey G. Casurella Law Offices of Jeffrey G. Casurella, Atlanta, Jerry A. Landers Jr. Browning & Tanksley, Marietta, John C. Bell Jr. Bell, James & Bentley, Augusta, and M. Scott Barrett Barrett & Assocs., Chicago, Ill., for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0476

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting class certification for claims against a life insurance company regarding underpayment of post-mortem interest on life insurance pro

  • Spencer v. Gary Howard Enters. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander J. Repasky, Marietta, and Gerald W. Abendroth Abendroth Law Office, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas C. Rogers Douglas C. Rogers & Co. PC, Moultrie, and William E. Holland Coleman, Talley, Newbern, Kurrie, Preston & Holland, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0306

    Defendant's knowledge of one prior DUI incident involving his employee was insufficient to establish actual knowledge of the employee's habitual reckles

  • Yang v. Washington

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal H. Howard, William D. James Neal H. Howard PC and Joann Brown-Williams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hunter S. Allen Jr. and Gary R. McCain Allen & Weathington PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0274

    The trial court's error in refusing to allow the plaintiff an opportunity to voir dire the defendants' expert was harmless, given the expert's qualifica

  • Brock v. Allen d/b/a Complete Pest Control

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna S. Golden, Jefferson, and Christopher L. Casey J. Hue Henry PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles E. Rogers Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Joseph R. Cruser, Jennifer M. McBath Cruser & Mitchell LLP, Philip W. Savrin and Brian K. Schumacher Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0114

    A plaintiff can maintain a professional negligence claim against an extermi

  • Ades v. Werther

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hayes M. Dever, Michael F. O'Neill and Alison D. Arce Dever & Merlin LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Ross, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0458

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the plaintiff based on the theory of unjust enrichment where the evidence showed the existence of a con

  • Flournoy v. Goble

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Franklin Jr. and Terri M. Yates Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald W. Hallman, Claxton, and Berrien L. Sutton Sutton & Assocs. PC, Homerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0436; A02A0437

    The verdict awarding the plaintiff damages for personal injuries in a medical negligence action was inconsistent with the verdict denying her husband damages for loss of conso

  • West v. Village Ford-Mercury Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph E. East, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Matthew R. Lawrence, Valdosta, and Scott C. Crowley Crowley & Billiard, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0827

    Plaintiffs' negligent entrustment theory against a car dealership failed because the dealership sold the vehicle in question before its driver collided with plaintiffs

  • Cox v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Braddy PC, Fitzgerald, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn Whitley Reinhardt, Whitley & Wilmot, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1628

    The lack of factual evidence supporting part of an expert's hypothetical opinion goes to the opinion's weight, not its admissib

  • Automated Solutions Enters. Inc. v. Clearview Software Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas R. Cauthorn III, Melissa M. Nohr Cauthorn & Assocs. and Vanice H. Sikes Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: T. Bart Gary and Stuart W. Gray Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0728

    No confidential relationship existed between the parties since their relationship, although close and lengthy, was merely a business relationship between two independent con

  • Moreno v. Strickland

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Parker, Sean L. Hynes Downey & Cleveland, Marietta, and Irwin W. Stolz Jr. Winburn, Lewis, Barrow & Stolz PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald W. Osborne Law Office of Allen & Assocs., Atlanta, and Michael T. Camp, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0915

    Letters between the parties' counsel provided some evidence that the parties reached a settlement agreement before plaintiff filed his injury