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Greg Land

Greg Land

Greg Land covers topics including verdicts and settlements and insurance-related litigation for the Daily Report in Atlanta.

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August 20, 2021 | Daily Report Online

State Appeals Court Ponders Bid to Toss Shooting Victim's Premises Liability Suit

The lawyers for a man shot during a 2015 robbery at a southwest Atlanta townhome complex asked the Court of Appeals to affirm a trial judge's ruling that earlier robberies and break-ins on the support nuisance and premises liability claims.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

August 19, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Atlanta Federal Judge Greenlights $10M Bad Faith Lawsuit Over Insurer's Response to Demand Letter

U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said the insurer's response to a woman's demand letter laying down conditions for paying the claim constituted a "counteroffer," creating a jury issue of whether the carrier acted in bad faith.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 18, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Two $2M Back-to-Back Settlements End Tractor-Trailer Wreck Cases

Commercial trucking injury specialist Andrew Goldner and Josh Stein recently settled two similar cases involving woman injured in tractor-trailer wrecks, each for more than $2 million.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

August 17, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Ga. Federal Jury Awards Fulton Teacher $225K for ADA Failure-to-Accommodate Claim

The now-retired special education teacher's doctor confirmed that his patient suffered from multiple maladies including diabetes, hypertension and anxiety, but administrators refused to transfer him to a similar, less-stressful job.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 12, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Judge Tosses Case Against Regents Over Ga. Tech Student's Fatal Shooting; Claims Against Officer Remain

The parents of Georgia Tech student Scott 'Scout' Schultz sued the Board of Regents and the officer who shot Schultz in 2017, claiming a lack of training on how to handle people suffering from mental illness led to the engineering student's death.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 12, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Appeals Judges Asked to Toss Premises Liability Suit Over Pappadeaux Murder-Robbery

Lawyers for the owners of the Pappadeaux and Pappasito's restaurants in Marietta and a co-defendant security company argued that the Georgia Court of Appeals should toss a premises liability lawsuit filed by the widow of man who was murdered a 2016 robbery that also left her with a gunshot wound.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 10, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Justices: Legal Malpractice Award Against A&B Not Subject to Apportionment Reflecting Nonparty's Fault

Ruling in a legal malpractice case against Alston & Bird, the Georgia Supreme Court said the state's apportionment statute does not provide for a reduction in damages commensurate with a finding of non-party fault in single-defendant cases.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

August 09, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Q&A: Division of Labor Lawyers: Amanda Farahany on How Her Firm Went Remote and Stayed There

Even before the pandemic labor shop Barrett & Farahany had shifted to a cloud-based, largely paperless operation. After the COVID-19 shutdown, the firm decided to give up its Midtown offices and go almost completely remote, with lawyers and staff in multiple states working from home—or the beach.

By Greg Land

7 minute read

August 05, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Donors Seek Class Action to Claw Back Millions Donated to Church but Used to Underwrite Sexual Misconduct

Zacharias, an evangelical minister who had worldwide followers and died in May 2020, was found to have sexually abused and exploited numerous women over a period of years in an investigation commissioned by his ministry after his death.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

August 04, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Judge Won't Toss Bilked Investors' Federal Fraud Claims Naming Dean Alford, Ex-Wife

The ex-wife and co-defendants of indicted former Board of Regents member Dean Alford asked Middle District Judge Clay Land to toss out civil claims alleging a multi-million dollar pyramid scheme, but he declined to do so.

By Greg Land

4 minute read