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Greg Land covers topics including verdicts and settlements and insurance-related litigation for the Daily Report in Atlanta.
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.
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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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
May 30, 2018
The Georgia Court of Appeals overturned a trial court's granting of a motion notwithstanding the verdict, holding all three co-defendants jointly liable for more than $522,000 in legal fees owed to Epstein Becker & Green.
May 29, 2018
In a three-vehicle wreck that left a motorcyclist dead, the jury awarded a total $7.5 million in damages, dividing 25 percent of the blame between the deceased biker and another truck driver involved.
May 24, 2018
The jury split liability three ways, finding the law firm liable for 32 percent of the damages, interests and attorney fees in the underlying case.
May 24, 2018
The Atlanta Development Authority sued the city's Board of Ethics after it refused to rescind a 2013 opinion barring the development agency from getting free tickets to events at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
May 23, 2018
The fractured ballot left LaTisha Dear-Jackson the big vote-getter with 37.6 percent of the vote, setting her up for a runoff with Tunde Akinyele, who pulled in 22.4 percent.
May 23, 2018
DeKalb Superior Court Chief Judge Courtney Johnson withstood challenger Genet Hopewell's attacks and was reelected by an almost 2-to-1 margin.
May 23, 2018
In the first-ever election for the post, incumbent Fulton County Chief Magistrate Cassandra Kirk overwhelmed challenger Louis Levenson, pulling in 73.6 percent of the vote to Levenson’s 27,351.
May 23, 2018
Veteran Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis took 49 percent of the vote to Kevin Farmer’s 31 percent, while Bobby Wolf came in last place with 20 percent.
May 23, 2018
The Court of Appeals ruling said the postconviction revelation that jurors had looked up information on the location of the defendant's house and that of his alleged victim created a "presumption of prejudice" the state could not overcome.
May 22, 2018
The plaintiff's attorney said evidence showed the MARTA employee operating the battery-powered cart had other mishaps the same day, including running into a vending machine and hitting an elevator door.
May 21, 2018
Chief Judge Courtney Johnson has faced harsh criticism over her handling of the trial of former DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis and a disputed report that she refused to grant an attorney a bathroom break.
May 21, 2018
For the first time, voters will be able to elect the Fulton County chief magistrate judge on Tuesday.
May 18, 2018
Morgan & Morgan filed the putative class action against the bank yesterday on behalf customers whose private information may have been disclosed in a data breach.
May 16, 2018
Three candidates with extensive criminal law experience are running for the seat of retiring Fulton County Superior Court Judge Tom Campbell. Here's what they had to say to the Daily Report.
May 16, 2018
Plaintiff attorney Jon Pope said he initially thought the defense's sudden admission that the plaintiff was injured was a "brilliant trial strategy" designed to throw him off guard.
May 15, 2018
A man struck as he waited to cross Peachtree Road at a traffic light was awarded $1.9 million after a two-day trial in Fulton County State Court.
May 14, 2018
The plaintiffs' lawyer had to overcome evidence that the deceased man was extremely intoxicated before he fell through a gap in a wooden guardrail.
May 11, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that punitive damages a probate judge entered against the conservator could not be levied against the insurance company that provided the surety bond.
May 10, 2018
The race for a seat opening up by the retirement of Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey has drawn a half-dozen hopefuls wit a wide array of backgrounds and experience.
May 10, 2018
Overturning a Florida district court, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that Wells Fargo did not waive its rights to compel arbitration when it agreed to defend in court five putative class actions over the way it calculated overdraft charges.
May 07, 2018
The attorney for a woman injured at an apartment complex said the appellate decision allowing a lease to reduce Georgia's two-year statute of limitations to one year "doesn't make any legal or logical sense to me."
May 04, 2018
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said that even if some of the claims in the underlying lawsuit were outside the scope of WoodSpring Hotels' policy with National Union Fire Insurance, the insurer still had a duty to defend the claims.
May 04, 2018
Attorney Joe Fried said the case did not seem promising because the deceased was stuck in the roadway after hitting another vehicle, and police did not find that the defendant truck driver did anything wrong.
May 03, 2018
"Watchdogs" director William Perry said a recent campaign aimed at alleged "corruption" in the Fulton County Family Court will send volunteers to monitor Judge Belinda Edwards over her rulings in a child custody battle, among other cases.
May 02, 2018
Matthew Cardinale has filed an Anti-SLAPP motion against Divvy Homes, which has sought to rescind his lease-to-own contract over what it claims are his unreasonably extensive repair demands.
May 01, 2018
The mailer goes after DeKalb County Superior Court Chief Judge Courtney Johnson over her handling of the trial and conviction of former county CEO Burrell Ellis—since overturned—and an incident when a lawyer purportedly denied a bathroom break couldn't wait any longer.
April 30, 2018
The former directors of Buckhead Community Bank were found liable for nearly $5 million in damages after they were sued by the FDIC.
April 26, 2018
Many of the proposed changes are relatively minor housekeeping matters, but some will impact filing deadlines. One also bars exhibits containing child pornography unless they are requested by the court.
April 26, 2018
The appellate opinion said the trial judge committed "serious evidentiary errors" and allowed the plaintiffs counsel to mislead the jury.
April 26, 2018
The judge found exclusions claimed by several insurers did not preclude them from covering defense and indemnity coverage claims against Cushman & Wakefield, the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm.
April 25, 2018
The policy-limit settlement came after the lawyer for the slain man's children filed a motion seeking sanctions against the property owner and management companies for destroying police reports and other evidence.
April 24, 2018
The case involved a 12-year-old boy whose itching, reddened right eye deteriorated over a period of weeks until it lost sight and atrophied. He must now wear a prosthesis over the shrunken eyeball.
April 23, 2018
The plaintiff was able to overcome evidence including Facebook posts of him running a muddy obstacle course last year to land a post-apportionment verdict of $417,545.
April 23, 2018
An engineer and inventor of a medical device claimed that Taylor English and firm lawyer Michael Trotter drafted a contract that allowed an investor to close down their company and steal his invention, costing him millions of dollars.
April 19, 2018
The complaint alleged that the firm caused a onetime employee of the widow of late Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizuega to lose tens of millions of dollars in gifts and bequests from Olga Goizuega and cost her millions more in tax judgments and fines.
April 19, 2018
In reversing an Alabama judge, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the False Claims Act's statute of limitations for bringing a claim starts when the government learns of the fraud, not when the whistleblower finds out about it.
April 18, 2018
Erik Underwood's complaint accuses AT&T and four of its vendors of promising him millions of dollars to fund his project, only to steal his technology and abandon his company.
April 18, 2018
In a dispute going back nearly 30 years, the Harford County in Maryland was hit with a verdict of more than $45 million for its successful efforts to block construction of a rubble-fill project the county originally asked for.
April 16, 2018
The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled a post-apportionment award for past medical bills with no other damages was "so clearly inadequate as to be inconsistent with the preponderance of the evidence," and required a new trial on damages and liability.
April 13, 2018
Civil litigation between former Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. and the woman and lawyers who arranged to video record him in a sexual encounter has been grinding along in Cobb County for nearly six years. Lawyers on both sides say the battle will continue despite the trio's acquittal on criminal charges.
April 12, 2018
Two veteran lawyers, former State Bar of Georgia President Robin Frazer Clark and prosecutor-turned-defense attorney Noah Pines, differed sharply in their views of Georgia's illegal surveillance statute and the applicability of the third party consent rule in the just-concluded case.
April 11, 2018
The decision followed a seven-day trial of Rogers’ former housekeeper and her former lawyers, Johns Butters and David Cohen.
April 10, 2018
“This is not a sexual harassment case,” said a prosecutor. “We’re not asking you to determine whether Ms. Brindle was a victim of sexual harassment” or “to like Joe Rogers.”
April 09, 2018
The jury in the felony eavesdropping trial of a woman and her two lawyers accused of illegally recording former Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. in a sexual encounter were able to hear the former housekeeper and assistant tell her side of the story Monday.
April 09, 2018
One of nine filing attorneys for the putative class action, Coral Gables lawyer Adam Moskowitz, said CIBA Insurance "has been able to skirt the insurance regulators, so there are no regulators checking their books every month."
April 06, 2018
Ruling in a putative class action against a defunct Orlando law firm, a panel said an attorney violates federal law "if he instructs a client to pay his bankruptcy-related legal fees using a credit card."
April 05, 2018
The city of Decatur, which is the target of a complaint filed by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, claims the board set up to handle complaints is a repeat violator of the Open Records and Open Meetings acts.
April 04, 2018
The jurors cleared WellStar Douglas Hospital and a radiologist of negligence in the death of a woman whose breast cancer went undetected but set up a new trial for a medical malpractice claim against the hospital.
April 04, 2018
Ruling in a case involving a woman injured when the buggy she was riding in was hit by a car, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that a trial judge was correct in denying summary judgment to the buggy driver's insurer. But the opinion said the injured woman's UM claim against the same insurer should have been dismissed by the trial court.
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