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Greg Land covers topics including verdicts and settlements and insurance-related litigation for the Daily Report in Atlanta.
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.
April 03, 2018
The plaintiffs lawyer said the jury could not see its way clear to find the defendant, a "very sweet" 90-year-old woman, liable for the injuries her housekeeper suffered in the fall.
April 02, 2018
A federal jury in Arizona's verdict included $2 million in punitive damages against the makers of an implanted blood filter that broke apart and left fragments in a woman's heart and lodged in her artery. More than 3,000 suits have been filed against C.R. Bard over the devices.
March 30, 2018
U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. ruled that the county's failure to notify its liability insurer about several lawsuits lets National Casualty Co. off the hook for more than $6.5 million the county sought to help pay for an $18 million settlement in 2015.
March 29, 2018
The plaintiff said a minor traffic accident led to a cascading series of events that left her hospitalized with kidney failure due to an infections that traveled from her left wrist to her right knee.
March 28, 2018
Ekonomou's path to a role on the president's legal team has been anything but traditional.
March 27, 2018
Cobb County prosecutors wanted the judge overseeing a multidefendant murder trial to stop anyone involved with the trial from posting or commenting publicly on the case after a juror read an old posting on a defense lawyer's Facebook page and shared her findings with other potential jurors, causing a mistrial.
March 27, 2018
The Georgia First Amendment Foundation is hoping the General Assembly will change a provision of the e-filing legislation so that documents must be made available immediately upon filing instead of upon their "physical acceptance" by the court clerk's office.
March 23, 2018
The class action accuses MetLife of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to pay hundreds of long-term disability claims specialists overtime pay, although other MetLife workers in similar positions receive OT pay.
March 23, 2018
The ruling comes after the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed and remanded an earlier order granting special prosecutor Michael Lambros nearly $50,000 in fees.
March 22, 2018
The firm was hit with a $1.8 million legal-malpractice verdict Wednesday for forging signatures on a woman's work visa for National Geographic.
March 21, 2018
The jury found the law firm and an associate forged a signature on a documentary filmmaker's work visa for National Geographic.
March 19, 2018
The appellate panel's order revives two of three claims arising from a 2013 single-car accident in which a man's 2005 Mazda 3 ran off the highway. Micah Andrews was wearing his seat belt, but his head hit the steering column, the air bag failed to deploy, and he died from his injuries.
March 07, 2018
The order said socialite and style maven Danielle Rollins and her attorney, Christopher Corbett, "engaged in a deliberate, concerted practice of abusive litigation" such that the attorney fee award is justified under Georgia law.
March 06, 2018
The unanimous opinion said jurors were allowed to rule on both medical malpractice and ordinary negligence, but the resulting "general verdict" did not specify which standard they applied.
March 06, 2018
Kirk’s appointment by Gov. Nathan Deal in 2015 was one of several changes authorized by the General Assembly under legislation that split the Magistrate Court off the State Court the year before.
March 05, 2018
Self was chief judge of the Macon Judicial Circuit when Gov. Nathan Deal tapped him for the appeals court on the day after Election Day in 2016.
March 05, 2018
Overturning two lower courts, the justices ruled Georgia's Business Security and Employee Privacy Act does not protect a company whose employee carries a gun in a company-owned vehicle onto someone else's property.
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March 05, 2018
Lawyers following the trial talk about their perspectives on what the case means—and the open questions that remain.
March 02, 2018
A trio of hunters who attempted to erect a newly purchased, floor model deer stand sold without a manual failed to seek out instructions on its use. When it began to fall as one climbed up, he leaped off and shattered his leg.
March 01, 2018
Attorneys for the law firm say the entire damages award and fee award—more than $2 million—must be reduced by 68 percent under the apportionment statute. Plaintiff's lawyers say the only applicable reduction is 8 percent of the fault assigned to their client.
February 28, 2018
Each side's lawyers disagree about how much the award should be reduced under apportionment law.
February 28, 2018
Plaintiffs are asking for more than $3.5 million in damages and attorney fees after the firm allegedly failed to protect the interests of members in a family-owned business.
February 26, 2018
Plaintiffs attorney John Sherrod said internal Suzuki documents showed the motorcycle maker delayed a brake recall for several months over marketing concerns.
February 26, 2018
The ruling marks the third time the federal judge has ruled that Georgia law does not allow "wrongful birth" lawsuits, one of several such rulings tossing out suits against Georgia-based Xytex.
February 23, 2018
The injured woman's lawyers overcame defense argument that she was to blame for tripping on a step onto the sidewalk where there was no prior history of anyone tripping or falling.
February 22, 2018
A co-manager of the plaintiff, a family-owned company, erupted when lead defense lawyer Richard Robbins asked about his litigious relations with other members of his family.
February 20, 2018
The plaintiff's lawyers said "powerful" eyewitness testimony from a woman dying of cancer helped spur the defense to settle the case on the opening day of trial.
February 20, 2018
Former Alston & Bird partner Jack Sawyer took the witness stand Friday to defend his representation of a family-owned company whose ex-manager is accused of stealing about $1.5 million.
February 15, 2018
The suit alleged thousands of violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and includes almost $440,000 in attorney fees and expenses.
February 14, 2018
The plaintiffs, a family-owned company, say Alston & Bird and former partner Jack Sawyer breached their legal and fiduciary duties by helping an older sibling allegedly steal nearly $1.5 million.
February 13, 2018
The appellate panel ruled that a jury could hear about a litigation investment company's payment of a plaintiff's medical bill as evidence of possible bias by the testifying doctors.
February 09, 2018
The plaintiff drove away after being rear-ended at a red light in Kennesaw in a 4 mph collision but later complained of neck stiffness and ultimately underwent spinal fusion surgery.
February 08, 2018
A former senior prosecutor with the Fulton County district attorney's gang unit, Charlie Bailey said his legal experience and crime-fighting expertise make him a superior candidate to lead the state's Law Department.
February 07, 2018
The rewrite of the 1985-era Rule 22 addresses the ubiquity of recording-enabled cellphones, laptops and other devices in 21st century society and urges courts to ensure transparency while safeguarding the rights of parties, victims and witnesses.
February 07, 2018
After three days of deliberations, the DeKalb County jury apportioned only 1 percent of the liability to the complex’s owners, dividing the rest among the shooter and other involved brawlers, meaning the slain man's parents will see none of the money.
February 06, 2018
The jury rejected the family's claims that the three days the deceased man spent with a dental bridge stuck in his throat contributed to his death from complications of Parkinson's disease several months later.
February 05, 2018
Answering a federal judge's certified question, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that garnishments against a former Aflac executive do not have to be filed on special forms required for financial institutions under a 2016 rewrite of Georgia's garnishment statute.
February 02, 2018
Secretary of State Brain Kemp and Fulton elections officials sued by civil rights group over notices mailed to voters who had moved within a county saying they had 30 days to update their addresses or be dropped from "active" voter rolls.
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