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Greg Land covers topics including verdicts and settlements and insurance-related litigation for the Daily Report in Atlanta.
December 12, 2018
Allstate said three people injured when a 72-year-old driver for Atlanta-based LogistiCare suffered a stroke and crashed were not covered because he was using the vehicle for hire at the time of the wreck.
December 10, 2018
Milliken & Co. argued that a "hold harmless" agreement with Georgia Power should shoulder some or all of the damages it will incur from several lawsuits over a fatal plane crash.
December 10, 2018
Lawyer Gordon Joyner, who headed the commission from 2001 to 2011, said the state has ignored dozens of his travel reimbursements and open records requests.
December 06, 2018
The pavement along the section of the interstate where the motorcyclist's bike slid out from under him had broken down and was essentially "gravel and rocks," said attorney Woody Sampson.
December 05, 2018
The panel wrote that, while the claims against the county officials in their official capacities were barred by sovereign immunity, they could be sued on their individual capacities for declaratory and injunctive relief.
December 04, 2018
Housing activist and veteran City Hall gadfly Matthew Cardinale has signed up to seek the Atlanta City Council seat formerly held by the late Ivory Young Jr.
November 21, 2018
The appellate opinion said a federal judge in Florida abused her discretion in allowing a mother to keep her children in the United States after she had twice abducted them from Panama.
November 21, 2018
The appellate panel concluded the trial judge abused her discretion by allowing the mother to keep her twin sons in the United States after abducting them twice from Panama.
November 21, 2018
The complaint said plaintiff Blessing Johnson was "shocked, horrified, and extremely scared and frightened" when her Uber driver got out and confronted the driver and passengers in another car after an accident.
November 20, 2018
The case was the first tried to verdict by father-and-son lawyers Bobby and Justin Jones. The senior Jones was himself badly injured when his single-engine Piper Cub plane crashed nearly a year ago.
November 19, 2018
The class action stems from a 2014 incident where the Georgia Criminal Information System went down, and Fulton jail administrators refused to release inmates who had made bond or were otherwise supposed to walk free.
November 19, 2018
The suit was filed by the parents of a young man killed when his wife—who had been treated earlier at a substance abuse clinic and who tested positive for methadone and fentanyl—turned in front of an oncoming car.
November 16, 2018
The complaint said the Athens-Clarke County government breached its agreement to provide "no cost" health care to government retirees hired before 2002.
November 15, 2018
The jury said the Extended Stay America Hotel in Norcross bore 30 percent of the blame—worth $13.8 million of the total—for the abuse and starvation that led to the death of 15-month-old Alcenti McIntosh in 2014.
November 15, 2018
The jury said the Extended Stay America Hotel in Norcross bore 30 percent of the blame—worth $18.3 million of the total—for the abuse and starvation that led to the death of 15-month-old Alcenti McIntosh in 2014.
November 14, 2018
Emory law professor Paul Zwier, who was disciplined last summer after students complained of his use of the "N-word" in class, reportedly used the slur again in a conversation with a black student on Oct. 31.
November 14, 2018
Emory law professor Paul Zwier, who was disciplined last summer after students complained of his use of the "N-word" in class, reportedly used the slur again in a conversation with a black student on Oct. 31.
November 14, 2018
Aetna maintained that its denial of coverage for a woman seeking proton therapy for an ultimately fatal cancer was appropriate because the treatment was deemed "experimental or investigational."
November 09, 2018
The campaign of candidate Brian Kemp blasted the Dougherty lawsuit as a "desperate ploy by the Abrams team to steal the election."
November 09, 2018
The 66-year-old woman sustained a traumatic brain injury as she tried to disembark from a MARTA Mobility bus nearly three years ago.
November 08, 2018
The hard-fought case against brother-sister defendants was tried three times before a jury voted to acquit them. One day earlier, another DeKalb jury cleared a pair of defendants of murder charges in a drug-related shooting.
November 08, 2018
Abrams' legal team said they have already drafted litigation against Dougherty County election officials over problems with absentee ballots and are prepared to go to court wherever necessary to ensure that every vote is counted.
November 07, 2018
A resounding "no" vote nixed the prospects for a fifth city in Henry County and defused legal challenges pending at the Georgia Supreme Court and U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
November 06, 2018
The putative class action accuses Columbus Medical Center of filing liens against uninsured auto-wreck patients for excessive and unreasonable medical bills.
November 05, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court agreed with the Judicial Qualifications Commission that a public reprimand is sufficient punishment for Recorder's Court Chief Judge Tammy Stokes, who was faulted for habitual tardiness and failure to show up for work.
November 05, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court found that a public reprimand is sufficient punishment for Judge Tammy Stokes, who was faulted for habitual tardiness and failure to show up for work.
November 05, 2018
The suit accuses the cab company of "intentionally freeriding on the success and popularity of the Atlanta Braves by brazenly copying the Atlanta Braves’ trademarks and trade dress."
November 01, 2018
The complaint, filed Tuesday by Atlanta solo Michael Mondy, includes claims of racial discrimination and being forced into “involuntary servitude.”
November 01, 2018
The petitioners are challenging the legality of a Georgia Public Service Commission vote that nearly doubled the cost of the troubled nuclear project at Plant Vogtle.
October 30, 2018
The Georgia Court of Appeals said a Chatham County judge should have weighed a bank's claims that its rejected offer to settle a claim was reasonable at the time it was made before he denied a bid for attorney fees under the offer-of-settlement statute.
October 29, 2018
Closing arguments had ended and the jury had left the courtroom to prepare to leave for the day when members of the victim's family lunged at a man charged with murder.
October 26, 2018
The appellate panel, which in 2016 upheld a trial judge's dismissal of the case, said on remand that Northside Hospital did not need to know the identity of the party seeking its records in order to claim they are confidential trade secrets.
October 26, 2018
Former Valdosta State Prison Corrections Captain Sherman Main was fired after complaining about being ordered to give cellphones to a prison snitch, who was subsequently stabbed.
October 24, 2018
The insurance product is being marketed as protection for litigants who may be hit with a fee award after turning down a settlement offer and for lawyers seeking to protect their contingency fees.
October 24, 2018
The en banc hearing comes after a split panel opted to reinstate the case after it was tossed for failure to state a claim.
October 24, 2018
The en banc hearing comes after a split panel opted to reinstate the case after it was tossed for failure to state a claim.
October 23, 2018
The Eleventh Circuit heard arguments on whether its "nearly identical" comparator standard for dismissing employment discrimination suits on summary judgment it too high a bar for plaintiffs to meet.
October 23, 2018
Judge Robin Rosenbaum noted seven times more employment discrimination cases survive summary judgment in the circuit covering Illinois and Wisconsin.
October 19, 2018
Gov. Nathan Deal named superior court judges in the Atlanta, Flint and Piedmont circuits, and a new state court judge for Dougherty County.
October 18, 2018
Judge Thomas Thrash wrote that the injured man's complaint did not show that Amazon had sufficient notice that the hazardous hoverboard could burst into flame before selling it.
October 18, 2018
Investment fund manager and human rights advocate Bill Browder told an Emory Law audience about his experience in Vladimir Putin's Russia and the brutal death of his lawyer and friend, Sergei Magnitsky.
October 17, 2018
The federal lawsuits say two citizens who were told they were welcome on public property to visit sewer facilities were jailed and charged with criminal trespass, while another resident was hit with a lifetime ban from attending city council meetings.
October 16, 2018
The defense said the case, which involved substantial medical damages and a plaintiff who miscarried after the collision, would have been a great plaintiff's case—if she had actually been in the car she claimed was wrecked.
October 15, 2018
The ruling tentatively clears the way for voters in the proposed city of Eagle's Landing to decide whether they want to break away from Stockbridge.
October 15, 2018
The Gainesville, Georgia, firm represented two motorcyclists struck by a tractor-trailer in Florida, and the wife of a man killed as he secured the load on his truck in Georgia.
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 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 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 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.
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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
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 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 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.
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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 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.
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