By Everett Catts | September 13, 2022
"Fundamentally, if you think about this, contingency fees are critical to allow people who are hurt by big corporations to hold them responsible," said Michael Terry, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 31, 2022
Gwinnett State Court Senior Judge Joseph Iannazzone has ordered Ford to pay compensatory damages of $16.8 million and punitive damages of $1.7 billion—plus interest at a rate of 8.5% annually while the appeal is pending.
By Ross Todd | August 26, 2022
The punitive damages win last week by Jim Butler of Butler Prather for the family of a couple who died after the roof of their F-250 pickup collapsed in a rollover crash marked his eighth verdict of more than $100 million.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 25, 2022
Despite the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, more tort lawsuits were filed over motor vehicle accidents and premises liability, according to the 2022 Torts Litigation Report, released Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 22, 2022
Plaintiffs attorney Jim Butler said the award was the "largest verdict by far in Georgia history." Ford has promised to appeal.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 19, 2022
Plaintiffs' attorney Jim Butler Jr. asked the jury to make a finding that would influence the company to issue warnings or recalls for the current owners of F-250s like the Hills' truck.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 4, 2022
After more than four years, Ford is back in court to defend charges the company made a faulty roof that crushed and caused the death of Melvin and Voncile Hill. This time, Ford's lawyers can only argue about how much the company should pay.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 3, 2022
A contentious, three-week battle over the same claims ended with a mistrial in April of 2018. A series of appeals and the coronavirus pandemic delayed the retrial until now.
By Cedra Mayfield | June 28, 2022
"We didn't just start with liability and end with damages," said plaintiff counsel Zachary R. Sprouse and Brent Savage Jr. of Savage, Turner, Pinckney, Savage & Sprouse in Savannah. "We tried to weave in witnesses who could talk about damages each day."
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | June 15, 2022
"The reason Bob and I got into this line of work," Cale Conley said of co-counsel Bob Cheeley, "is uncovering design problems helps improve safety in future designs. If we can get to the bottom of what happened here, maybe it won't happen again."
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