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Greg Land covers topics including verdicts and settlements and insurance-related litigation for the Daily Report in Atlanta.
Property Casualty 360 |Research
October 12, 2018
Major increases in homeowner, automobile and most other types of insurance disputes filed in federal court.
October 11, 2018
A new report from the legal analytics firm also found that California’s Central District has the fastest of four major insurance dockets, taking an average of 343 days to rule on summary judgment, and 493 days to get to trial.
October 11, 2018
A new report found major increases in homeowner, automobile and most other types of insurance disputes filed in federal court, where insurers are significantly more likely to prevail over claimants.
October 11, 2018
A weaker part of the case against several co-defendants remains after the Georgia Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of legal malpractice claims against Foy.
October 09, 2018
Lawyers for the city of Stockbridge, which will lose its most affluent areas if voters in the proposed city of Eagle's Landing vote to leave, argue that enabling legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year violates constitutional bans on bills with misleading titles or concerning more than one subject.
October 09, 2018
Two recent admitted liability trials—one ending in a defense verdict, the other with a plaintiffs award—highlight the strategies and perils of passing up a settlement offer a plaintiff doesn't think is high enough.
October 05, 2018
DeKalb State Court Judge Johnny Panos concludes key company officials repeatedly lied about their knowledge of gang activity at the Highlands at East Atlanta apartments, where a gang member gunned down a 17-year-old girl.
October 04, 2018
The defense had argued that Winston the hound dog never bitten anyone, including the plaintiff.
October 03, 2018
In 2016, Creekside Forest Apartments was notorious for crime, garbage and empty units that often sheltered squatters and drug dens.
October 03, 2018
The plaintiff had sought $17 million from Bell Sports after suffering a head injury while wearing one of the company's helmets.
October 03, 2018
The county sheriff, jail staff and its medical provider were accused of violating an inmate's constitutional rights after his cellmate beat him to death for reportedly refusing to hand over a piece of candy.
October 02, 2018
Judge Gail Tusan said the court's response to jurors' questions undercut the "crux" of MARTA's defense, and ordered a new trial.
Law Journal Newsletters |Features
October 01, 2018
A federal judge in Atlanta dismissed a complaint filed by four movie-production companies hoping to dodge liability for a fatal plane crash tied to the filming of the Tom Cruise picture American Made.
September 25, 2018
California-based amusement park company Apex Parks Group sued Protective Life Insurance after it refused to honor a $10 million "key person" policy the insurer wrote several months before Apex CEO Al Weber died suddenly in 2016.
September 25, 2018
The jury also found that three defendants should be liable for $100,000 in punitive damages and $150,000 in attorney fees.
September 21, 2018
There could be an apportionment wrangle in the offing, however, as one of three sets of co-defendants was cleared of causing the boy’s injuries, but nonetheless assessed 10 percent of the apportioned verdict.
September 21, 2018
There could be an apportionment wrangle in the offing, however, as one of three sets of co-defendants was cleared of causing the boy’s injuries, but nonetheless assessed 10 percent of the apportioned verdict.
September 20, 2018
Pope McGlamry partner C. Neal Pope said the 18 days prior to the flawed procedure are the only “normal days that child will have”
September 20, 2018
Pope McGlamry partner C. Neal Pope will resume closings for the plaintiffs after the lunch break and is expected to seek millions of dollars in damages.
September 19, 2018
More than a dozen lawyers are on hand for the trial, which involves a boy who lost part of his penis during a faulty circumcision when he was only 18 days old.
September 18, 2018
Emory Law Professor Paul Zwier agreed to a two-year period during which students may choose whether take his classes and to undergo sensitivity and unconscious bias counseling.
September 17, 2018
The crash left one child dead and another permanently paralyzed. The at-fault driver is in prison for vehicular homicide.
September 14, 2018
After the Georgia Court of Appeals scrapped the verdict and ordered a new trial, Judge Richard Story halted discovery in American Family Insurance's suit seeking to dodge liability for the hefty award until the underlying case is resolved.
September 14, 2018
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Jill Pryor cited the officer's body camera footage to support the excessive force claims of a motorist who was tased four times.
September 14, 2018
The appellate court agreed with the lower court that there was enough evidence that an Argo, Alabama, officer used excessive force in repeatedly tasing a man who went into diabetic shock while driving.
September 12, 2018
The federal complaint filed in Georgia's Northern District said the former president and secretary for Harvey's radio and production companies fired a woman who refused to join them for sex.
September 11, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court must decide what duties an insurer has to try to settle a case with heavy liability.
September 10, 2018
For years, insurers have complained that some plaintiffs lawyers abuse time limited "Holt demands" to force insurers into either coughing up policy limits or face the possibility of large "bad faith" judgments.
September 10, 2018
Bulloch County Superior Court Judge F. Gates Peed knew his refusal to consider the underlying arguments was "not the law" when he refused to seal a man's expunged record.
September 07, 2018
A federal judge in Atlanta said four production companies being sued along with the company that maintained the downed plane should wait until that litigation ends before seeking to be indemnified for any potential awards or judgments.
September 06, 2018
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall said he thought former Butler Wooten partner Robert Cheeley had an "uphill battle to set aside an arbitration award."
September 05, 2018
Former Atlanta police officer James Burns, re-indicted on murder charges Wednesday for a 2016 shooting, had filed an emergency petition asking that the same grand jury rules that applied when he was first indicted—including allowing him to deliver a statement without being questioned—be applied again. A Fulton judge said "no."
September 04, 2018
The judgment included $1 million for past and future pain and suffering by the victim, now 18, $1 million for "willfull misrepresentation" and $3 million in punitive damages.
August 30, 2018
An Israeli company that was found to have defamed its onetime Georgia partner challenged that ruling in federal court, only to have the international arbitration award upheld and to be hit with more than $260,000 in attorney fees.
August 29, 2018
A Wednesday rally organized by the Emory Black Law Students Association refrained from criticizing a professor accused of using the toxic term, instead calling for tolerance and a need to "be comfortable being uncomfortable" in discussing charged language and attitudes.
August 28, 2018
Three members of Advocacy for Action, an organization dedicated to supporting minorities' advancement in the legal profession, said the professor's use of the racial slur is unacceptable under any circumstances.
August 28, 2018
The jury took about 45 minutes to find for the defense after a four-day trial involving a 2006 wreck between a tractor-trailer and pickup truck at a rural Emanuel County intersection.
August 24, 2018
The appellate opinion's sharp criticism of the 45-year-old U.S. Supreme Court opinion continues a trend of lower courts' judges attacking the ruling and lamenting their duty to enforce it.
August 23, 2018
The parents of the toddler claimed a defective range cover knocked a pot of boiling vegetables onto the child as she stood near the stove.
August 22, 2018
Chief Judge Ed Carnes wrote the panel must apply an “aberration” of constitutional law in applying Supreme Court precedent.
August 22, 2018
Watkins, a founding partner of plaintiffs’ boutique Watkins Lourie Roll & Chance, was left mostly paralyzed from his chest down after falling and hitting his chin on a shelf in the middle of the night.
August 20, 2018
Lawyers for one of five victims who died in the 2013 crash argued that Milliken & Co. allowed a power pole to be erected on its property that violated a height agreement it had with neighboring Thomson-McDuffie County Airport.
August 17, 2018
The jury heard the first of five cases stemming from the 2013 crash of a corporate jet at Thomson-McDuffie Airport.
August 16, 2018
In a largely blacked-out petition, Robert Cheeley asked a Fulton judge to vacate an arbitration award in several fee disputes with his former firm, Butler Wooten & Peak.
August 16, 2018
Carolyn Cosby was fined last year after the Government Transparency & Campaign Finance Commission received complaints that a half-dozen groups she led failed to register prior to engaging in lobbying, accepting contributions or expending funds for political advocacy.
August 15, 2018
Judge Ed Kinkeade wrote that the plaintiffs sufficiently supported their allegations that Exxon Mobil and then-CEO Rex Tillerson misrepresented the value of the company's gas and oil reserves to keep its stock prices high prior to a $12 billion bond issue in 2016.
Daily Report Online |News |Profile
August 14, 2018
Six years after he was appointed to the bench, Chief Judge Robert McBurney says it still feels a bit "odd" when colleagues he worked with as a Fulton County and federal prosecutor appear before him. "It seems strange when they call me ‘judge.’ I’m Bob,” he said.
August 13, 2018
The decision turned on whether the court had the jurisdiction to hold a group of foreign-based reinsurers liable for a $26 million arbitration award.
August 10, 2018
Defense attorney Lee Welborn said the jury, which included eight members from Latin America, relied on their experiences with home-country drivers to decide the plaintiff should have been more alert.
August 09, 2018
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden said he had no jurisdiction to hold a group of foreign-based reinsurers liable for a $26 million arbitration award that followed the 2014 bankruptcy of Glacial Energy Holdings.
August 08, 2018
The opinion authored by Judge Gerald Tjoflat said that tolerating the "incomprehensible" complaint and multiple delays would constitute obstruction of justice—and gave the lawyer 21 days to explain why he should not pay double the defense's appeals costs.
August 07, 2018
The only remaining defendant is Milliken & Co., whose property had the utility pole blamed in the crash.
August 07, 2018
CIBA’s attorney said the complaint was baseless & part of a pattern of spurious lawsuits being filed against the company.
August 06, 2018
A separate settlement between the two feuding firms involved in the FCA case means there will be no fee dispute.
August 03, 2018
The putative class action filed in April accused CIBA and an affiliated insurance company of working together to avoid compliance with statutory insurance regulations.
July 27, 2018
The appellate panel said the evidence was 'more than enough for a jury to find that Geico acted in bad faith' in its handling of a 2010 auto wreck.
July 26, 2018
Farmer won about the same number of votes in the May primary as he did in Tuesday's runoff—but the number of Fulton voters was nearly cut in half between the two races.
July 26, 2018
Plaintiff's attorney Michael Goldberg said his client's accident happened because "the hospital just didn't have the right policies and procedures in place to protect wheelchair patients."
July 25, 2018
Turning aside the insurer's bid for a new trial or judgment as a matter of law, the appellate panel said the evidence was "more than enough for a jury to find that Geico acted in bad faith" in its handling of a 2010 auto wreck.
July 23, 2018
Lawyers for Dr. James Chappuis and Spine Center Atlanta dispute assertions that they have a "de facto joint business venture” with plaintiffs lawyers and their clients, arguing that medical liens allow needed care when funds aren't available.
July 20, 2018
The law firm moved to quash IRS summonses for its escrow and trust accounts, claiming a constitutional right to protect client information.
July 20, 2018
The Florida law firm had moved to quash IRS summonses for its escrow and trust accounts because they contain confidential client information protected by the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment and the Florida Constitution, which includes the right to privacy.
Property Casualty 360 |Case Study
July 20, 2018
An Allstate policyholder had a contractual obligation to answer questions about his fire-razed home.
July 19, 2018
After Riley's Show Bar missed the deadline to respond to the suit and defaulted, the trial was for damages only. A plaintiffs lawyer said the chances for collecting the whopping judgment are "unclear."
July 17, 2018
The appellate panel that revived claims against a seatbelt maker in a fatal wreck case declined to re-hear arguments asking the Georgia Supreme Court to rule on the states defective product law.
July 13, 2018
Two men died and several were injured when a trackhoe operator sparked a "burning geyser of gasoline" while attempting to repair a leak in a pipeline near Pelham, Alabama, in October 2016.
July 12, 2018
The lawsuit said the Celebrity Body Sculpting clinic illegally posted pictures of her nude body—identifiable by her tattoos—on its website, Facebook and Yelp.
July 12, 2018
Upholding a trial judge, the Eleventh Circuit said that—pique or no pique—an Allstate policyholder had a contractual obligation to answer questions about his fire-razed Hogansville home or suffer the denial of coverage.
July 10, 2018
Coming off a busy and successful month of trial, Walson Adelman partner decries advertising, health care claims as pushing more cases to trial, but the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association president says tight-fisted insurers bear much of the blame.
July 06, 2018
The family of Antoine Hendrix, who suffocated after his motorized wheelchair ran through a rail and off a patio at a Villa Rica apartment complex, had reached an earlier $1M settlement, which will be deducted from the final judgment.
July 05, 2018
The appellate court said there was enough evidence to allow legal malpractice and civil conspiracy claims to go forward, but it upheld U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen's dismissal of other claims filed by an investment group that sued after the collapse of a startup company whose founder and CEO looted the business.
July 03, 2018
The Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of former prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer Rand Csehy, who was charged with possession of meth after a judge ordered him to take a urine test when he appeared unsteady and disheveled in court.
July 02, 2018
The opinion, written by Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harris Hines, said the plaintiff's discovery that nursing staff may have violated hospital rules meant that a new claim could be added to the lawsuit, even though the statute of limitations had run.
June 29, 2018
A lawyer suit said a chiropractor defamed her in an online review by insinuating the lawyer had stolen money.
June 29, 2018
A lawyer suit said a chiropractor defamed her in an online review by insinuating the lawyer had stolen money.
June 29, 2018
Is an insurance company really liable for bad-faith when it alleges that it had no notice of a claim? See what one Georgia jury decided.
June 28, 2018
In a 2-1 ruling, the Georgia Court of Appeals said sovereign immunity protected the city of Albany from liability for renewing an occupancy license for a crime-plagued recording studio where a young man was murdered.
June 26, 2018
Hall Booth Smith partner Jeffery Saxby said the jury was leaning 11-to-1 for a defense verdict from the outset of deliberations, rejecting plaintiffs' arguments that the Six Flags Drive apartment complex had failed to provide adequate security.
June 25, 2018
Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Robert McBurney commiserated with the plaintiffs, whose child suffers from "actual, present struggles," but said Georgia law currently does not allow such claims.
June 22, 2018
The Court of Appeals said Georgia's anti-SLAPP suit protects attorney Michael Neff from a defamation suit filed by a young driver he sued after she was accused of using Snapchat's Speed Filter to take a selfie just before she hit another car.
June 22, 2018
Clayton County State Court Judge Shalonda Jones-Parker wrote that a doctor and nurse at a Riverdale pediatric clinic had a duty to preserve tissue accidentally sliced from an infant's penis.
June 21, 2018
Atlanta lawyer Jonathan Johnson said his mention as an aviation litigator in USA Today led to a nine-client lawsuit against Southwest Airlines and Boeing Co. stemming from an April midair engine failure that shattered a jet's window and killed a passenger.
June 21, 2018
A woman was sued by a Colorado hospital seeking more than three times what it had already been paid for her surgery.
June 20, 2018
The settlement is the second one involving claims that now-defunct Columbus firm Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild and former partner Barry Vaught mishandled trusts worth tens of millions of dollars set up to benefit two scions of the Bill Heard Chevrolet franchise, which itself folded after declaring bankruptcy in 2008.
June 20, 2018
Ted Lavender of FisherBroyles in Atlanta led a team representing a woman sued by a Colorado hospital seeking more than three times what it had already been paid for her surgery.
June 19, 2018
The putative class action accuses Georgia Power of improperly collecting fees that are supposed to be based only on actual power usage by including other assessments, including the $6 billion "nuclear fee" the General Assembly and Public Service Commission authorized the utility to tack onto customers' bills to prepay for two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle.
June 18, 2018
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk ruled that sovereign immunity protects Clayton County from claims that it improperly withholds tax collections from College Park.
June 15, 2018
Dr. Windell Davis-Boute became an internet sensation after YouTube videos of the doctor dancing, rapping and kneading the flesh of anesthetized patients went viral.
June 15, 2018
A few days after the Georgia Court of Appeals upheld several rulings by a DeKalb County judge in the underlying trial, Safe Auto Insurance settled its federal claims against the estate of a woman killed by a drunken driver.
June 14, 2018
After a jury acquitted the former housekeeper and her lawyers of criminal charges related to secretly video recording former Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. engaged in a sex act, the Georgia Supreme Court sent the related civil appeals back to the Court of Appeals for reconsideration.
June 14, 2018
Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young partner H. Lane Young built a reputation as a tireless litigator and trial lawyer defending legal malpractice, toxic tort and catastrophic injury cases during his 42 years with the firm.
June 13, 2018
Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young partner H. Lane Young was found unresponsive in his Atlanta office on Tuesday night.
June 12, 2018
The attorney for the injured woman said the owner of the property where she was attacked never responded to the Fulton County lawsuit. Now, he intends to go after properties the defendant owns to satisfy the judgment.
June 08, 2018
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers sued 10 bars and restaurants around the country, including Atlanta's 5Church, asserting that they're playing copyrighted music without forking over licensing fees.
June 07, 2018
The appellate panel revived a suit asserting that Snapchat's speed filter was to blame for the injuries suffered by the victim of a teen driver who was doing more than 100 miles an hour when she wrecked her dad's Mercedes.
June 06, 2018
Affordable housing advocate and online publisher Matthew Cardinale was sued by his lease-to-own landlord, Divvy Homes, after he requested thousands of dollars in repairs to the northwest Atlanta house he is hoping to buy.
June 06, 2018
According to the complaint, PI company Accurate Studies & Observations Investigations placed a tracking device on a married couple's vehicle at the behest of the woman's ex-husband, who was under a court order to stay away from her.
June 05, 2018
Gay nude dance club Swinging Richards, which settled a prior Fair Labor Standards Act last year for $1.3 million, was hit with an $800,000 judgment after five dancers sued over unpaid wages.
June 01, 2018
Faced with hundreds of millions of dollar in potential damages, Northwestern University tapped Jenner & Block's Craig Martin and Amanda Amert to smack down a putative class action challenging the substance and management of its retirement plans.
May 31, 2018
The widow of Pete Hamilton, who won the Daytona 500 and Talladega 500 in 1970, was awarded $1.9 million for medical malpractice and loss of consortium claims stemming from a botched shoulder surgery her husband underwent in 2014.
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