Case digests and stories on significant verdicts and rulings
By Cedra Mayfield | January 14, 2025
Less than two years after a stray bullet killed a sleeping child inside her Griffin apartment, plaintiff counsel with Butler Kahn and Mabra Law and defense counsel with Drew Eckl & Farnham negotiated a $6 million wrongful-death settlement.
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By Quentin Brogdon | January 9, 2025
In Albertsons v. Mohammadi last year, the Texas Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of Corbin v. Safeway Stores, its seminal 1983 premises law precedent.
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By Riley Brennan | January 2, 2025
The appellate court reversed a summary judgment decision in favor of the university's board of regents as the disputes remained over whether the stairs were defectively designed, and if that defect caused the plaintiff's injury.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 23, 2024
The jury determined Dec. 20 that the building’s owner and property manager were responsible for the plaintiff’s injuries, despite the defendants’ arguments that they had only taken charge of the building two weeks before the accident.
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By Mason Lawlor | December 17, 2024
"It's still shocking how often this happens," L. Chris Stewart of Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys in Atlanta said. "Key card security should be the number one measure if you work at that front desk, above anything else. The key cards are the priority, and it's not being taken as seriously as it should."
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By Riley Brennan | November 8, 2024
The judge denied the water park's attempts to dismiss a negligence suit after a guest claimed he slipped and fell on a set of stairs that were allegedly covered with mold and algae.
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By Douglas J. McCarron and Michael Haggard | October 25, 2024
Completing a thorough investigation early on provides a strategic advantage, and the ability to push a case forward that will undoubtedly be beneficial to your client and your case. This means that relying on investigative means outside of traditional discovery is not an option, it is a necessity.
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By Cedra Mayfield | October 7, 2024
"We felt confident that the jury would side with us and confirm what we always believed—the hotel bore the full responsibility for putting our client in that dangerous position," said plaintiff counsel Tyler Schermerhorn of The Schermerhorn Firm in Atlanta.
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By Cedra Mayfield | September 18, 2024
"For you to prevail, I think you need to be able to show that the renewal action is the same 'the case' in which the voluntary dismissal was filed," Presiding Justice Nels S. D. Peterson told appellee counsel during oral arguments.
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By Emily Cousins | September 10, 2024
"He doesn't really know what happened," plaintiff counsel Maria Cahill said of her client.
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