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  • Gatto et al. v. City of Statesboro et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-25
    Practice Area: Government | Insurance Law | Personal Injury
    Industry: Insurance | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Rogers, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, William D'Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers LLC), Atlanta, Charles Johnson, (Law Offices of James C. McLaughlin), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Terry Amanda Seals, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, George Spears, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Bennett, Richard Gignilliat, John Stivarius, (Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Seth Friedman, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith), Atlanta, Rusi Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A19A1408

    City's Purchase of Liability Insurance Did Not Waive Sovereign Immunity Defense Against Personal Injury Claims

  • Centurion Industries, Inc. v. Naville-Saeger et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-07
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Motor Vehicle Torts | Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Marcovitch, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, Grant Smith, (Dennis, Corry & Porter and Smith, L.L.P.), Atlanta, Rishi Pattni, (The Fry Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amy Holbrook, W. Langdale, (Langdale & Vallotton LLP), Valdostsa, Stephen Lowry, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Savannah, Jeannete Lewis, (Lewis Legal Group, P.A.), Plantation, for appellee. Dennis Cathey, Rebecca Payne, (Cathey & Strain, LLC), Cornelia, Saleem Dennis, (Sam D. Dennis, P.C.), Valdosta, Jon Wolfe, (Chambliss, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: A19A1176

    Employee Engaging in Personal Errand While Driving to Work Location During Period of Unpaid Personal Leave Was Not Acting Within Course and Scope of Employment

  • AIKG, LLC v. Marshall

    Publication Date: 2019-07-15
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Diversity
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Nanninga, Barbara Marschalk Robert Quinn, (Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, Robert Marcovitch, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Lloyd Hoffspiegel, Alexander Hoffspiegel, (Hoffspiegel & Associates), Atlanta, Mark Link, (Link & Smith, P.C.), Tucker, Ashley Ellerbe-Dawkins, (Attorney at Law), Tucker, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0322

    Trial court conducted a proper Batson analysis regarding litigant's discriminatory reasons for using peremptory juror strikes.

  • Bryde et al. v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2019-06-11
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Parham, Ryan Harbin, (Bloom Parham, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Wright, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0600

    Court Affirms Dismissal of Appeal from Condemnation Proceedings as Untimely Where Property Owner Waited Just Over 30 Days to Give Notice of Appeal

  • Warnock v. Sandford et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-10
    Practice Area: Motor Vehicle Torts | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristen Cawley, (Goodman McGuffey Lindsey & Johnson, LLP), Atlanta, James Doyle, Robert Marcovitch, Charles Reed, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, For Appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Bleiberg, Gary Hill, (Hill and Bleiberg), Atlanta, For Appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1656

    Court affirms damages award for pain and suffering over defendant's objections to improper jury instructions on the Georgia impact rule

  • Goodhart et al. v. Atlanta Gas Light Company

    Publication Date: 2019-04-05
    Practice Area: Evidence | Public Utilities | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Shiver, R. Campbell, Alan Hamilton, (Shiver Hamilton, LLC), Atlanta, Angela Fox, Kurt Kastorf, Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alexandra Nelson, John McDonald, Russell Rogers, (Thompson Hine LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Brantley Rowlen, Ronald Masterson, (Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A1965

    Gas Company Had No Duty to Ensure That Gas Connection to Appliance on Private Property Was Properly Secured

  • JCG Farms of Alabama, LLC v. Morgan

    Publication Date: 2019-03-07
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Goss
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Marcovitch, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, Vincent Toreno, Nathaniel Hofman, (Ken David & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Chance, Lance Lourie, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, Angela Fox, Anna Cross, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, William Lundy, Charles Morris, (Parker & Lundy), Cedartown, for appellee. Robert Luskin, (Goodman, Mcguffey, Lindsey & Johnson LLP), Atlanta, Thomas Brennan, W. Pettus, (Fain, Major, & Brennan, PC.), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: A18A1879

    Court Affirms Grant of Partial Summary Judgment of Employee of Subsidiary Who Was Injured at Different Subsidiary and Sought Finding That He Was Not Employee of Subsidiary at Which He Was Injured by Nature of Shared Parent Such That He Could Seek Relief Outside Workers' Compensation Act

  • Burton v. ECI Management Corporation

    Publication Date: 2018-08-07
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred Rushing (RBBS LLC f/k/a The Rushing Firm Ltd), East Point; Heather Johnson (The H.L. Johnson Law Group LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brantley Rowlen, James Doyle, Kristin Roquemore (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0657

    Court Properly Denied Appellant's Motion to Withdraw Her Admissions Regarding Alleged Hazardous Condition