• First Acceptance Insurance Company of Georgia v. Watts et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Freed, Philip Savrin, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP.), Atlanta, James Finley, Amy Daugherty, (The Finley Firm, P.C.), Columbus, Daniel Hendrix, (Jackson & Hendrix, LLC), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ben Brodhead, Ashley Fournet, Michael Arndt, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, Orlando Ojeda, (Ojeda Legal, LLC), Atlanta, Kenneth Bernard, (Sherrod & Bernard), Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0588

    Court dismisses an insurer's appeal to the denial of its declaratory judgment action in an insurance coverage dispute because resolution of underlying tort action had been reached

  • Smith v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Delia Crouch, (Attorney at Law), Newnan, John Cunningham, (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Desiree Duke, (The Duke Law Firm, LLC.), Carrollton, David Webster, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0896

    Court determines that a divorcing couples' prior contract as to disposition of a frozen embryo controlled over application of marital property and balancing approaches

  • Freeman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Christopher DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0174

    Court affirms convictions for rape, burglary, and other crimes over defendant's contentions on insufficient evidence, trial court error, and ineffective assistance