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  • U-Haul Company of Arizona et al. v. Rutland et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Insurance Law | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight), Atlanta, Sean Hyatt, Jenny Mendelsohn, Gerald Mize, Colin Kelly, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, John Oxendine, (Oxendine Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cable, P.A.), Dallas, for appellee. Johnathan Krawcheck, (Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial), Atlanta, Sanjay Ghosh, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, Mason Rountree, (Rountree Law Firm), Dallas, Henry Pruett, (Levy & Pruett), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A2037

    Plaintiff Lacked Standing At Initial Stage of Litigation to Seek Declaratory Judgment Regarding Defendant's Maximum Insurance Coverage

  • Wyno v. Lowndes County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: O. Wayne Ellerbee, John Gee Edwards, (The Ellerbee Law Firm), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James L. Elliott, (Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding, P.C.), Valdosta, for appellee. Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, Susan Janan Moore, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, G. Joseph Scheuer, Kelly Jean Long Pridgen, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus appellee. Ross Warren Bergethon, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S18A1231

    Georgia Constitution Immunizes Government Employees From Liability Arising From Discretionary Enforcement of Dog Control Ordinances

  • Bolton et al. v. Golden Business, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-27
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Real Estate | Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A18A1600

    Existence of Crime in Store Location Area Did Not, Without More, Raise Triable Issues of Fact as to Property Owner's Knowledge

  • City of Albany v. Stanford et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-02
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning | Real Estate | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, Wesley Jackson (Freeman Mathis Gary LLP), Atlanta; C. Davis (City of Albany, City Attorney's Office), Albany; Rusi Patel (Georgia Municipal Association Inc), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Virgil Adams, Caroline Herrington, Donald Jordan, Dawn Lewis (Adams Jordan & Herrington PC), Macon; Renay Bloom, Marilyn Quail (Bloom Montrueil & Quail), Macon; Charles Cork (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for appellee. Daniel Loving, Molly Loving, Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A0699

    City Immune From Suit Claiming City's Failure to Curtail Nuisance Proximately Caused Plaintiff's Death

  • Bibbs et al. v. Toyota Motor Corporation et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-10
    Practice Area: Damages | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Barnes, John Raymond Bevis, John Ross Bartholomew IV (The Barnes Law Group LLC), Marietta; Robert David Cheeley (Sherry Schons - Cheeley Law Group), Norcross; Keith E. Fryer (Fryer Shuster & Lester P.C.), Atlanta; Keith Allen Pittman (Cheeley Law Group LLC), Alphatetta; Thomas A. Eaton (University of Georgia School of Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carrie Lynn Christie, Robert Harris Burke (Rutherford & Christie LLP), Atlanta; Frank Mitchell Lowrey IV, Amanda Kay Seals Bersinger (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta; Joel H. Smith, Richard Hood Willis, Ashleigh R. Wilson (Bowman and Brooke LLP-SC), Columbia, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18Q0075

    Damages in a wrongful death action are limited by the decedent's full settlement of her earlier personal injury action.

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  • Skyjack, Inc. et al. v. Mois et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-27
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Singer (Bovis, Kyle & Burch), Atlanta; H. Young, Willie Ellis, Warner Fox (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta; Katherine Mercer-Lawson, Theresa Wardon (Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP), Denver; Andrew Capobianco (Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Darren Penn (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta; Jennifer Smith (Ken David & Associates LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Matthew McLaughlin (McLaughlin & Loring), Alpharetta, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A0455

    Substituting Administrator of Decedent's Estate For Named Plaintiff in Wrongful Death Action Not Statutorily Authorized

  • SecureAlert, Inc. et al. v. Boggs et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-19
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Flynn (Attorney at Law), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Durham (Lee Durham LLC), Albany; Rosser Malone (Malone Law Office), Atlanta; Sidney Moore (The Moore Law Firm P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee. Kovarious Price, Garden City; Demetrious Price, Reidsville; Grace Chapman, Albany; Richard Parker, Peachtree City; Erwin Warren, Albany; Sonya Bryant, Albany; George Donaldson, Misty Haskins (Perry & Walters LLP), Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A0045

    The trial court erred in denying electronic pretrial release and monitoring service providers' motion to dismiss plaintiffs' wrongful death and personal injury action arising after two men whom providers were responsible for monitoring via ankle bracelets allegedly shot and killed another man, because O.C.G.A. § 17-6-1.1 (i) shielded providers from civil liability.

  • Handberry v. Stuckey Timberland, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-26
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Agriculture | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caleb Walker (Katherine L. McArthur, LLC), Macon; Katherine McArthur (McArthur Law Firm), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Fields, Gregory Mast (Fields Howell Athans & McLaughlin LLP), Atlanta; Brandon Oren (Jones Cork & Miller LLP), Macon; Kamber Burke (Fields Howell LLP), Atlanta, for appellant. Christopher Phillips (Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, PC.), Savannah, for amicus curiae.
    Case Number: A17A1944

    Property Lessor Was Immune from Liability to Lessee's Guest Who Entered Property for Hunting Purposes

  • Chrysler Group LLC n/k/a FCA US LLC v. Walden et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-25
    Practice Area: Damages | Wrongful Death
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Otho Brantley, Mary Diane Owens, Bradley S. Wolff (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta; Thomas H. Dupree Jr., Rajiv Mohan (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP), Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karsten Bicknese, Robert Howard Betts (Seacrest, Karesh, Tate & Bicknese, LLP), Atlanta; James E. Butler Jr. (Butler, Wooten Cheely & Peak LLP), Atlanta; James Edward Butler III (Butler Tobin LLC), Atlanta; Cathy Cox (Mercer Law School), Macon; George C. Floyd (Floyd & Kendrick LLC), Bainbridge; Leigh Martin May (Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer), Atlanta; Michael Brian Terry, Frank Mitchell Lowrey IV (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta; David Thomas Rohwedder (Butler Wooten & Peak LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Michael Roger Boorman (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta; Brian David Boone, Kyle G.A. Wallace, Caroline M. Rawls, William Herman Jordan (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta; Christopher Randall Jordan (Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn), Brunswick; Martin Adam Levinson (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta; Garret Warrington Meader (Drew ECKL & Farnham LLP), Brunswick; James Randolph Evans, Anthony Wyatt Morris (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, for amicus appellant. Matthew Britt Stoddard (The Stoddard Firm), Atlanta, for amicus appellee. Therese S. Barnes (Georgia Supreme Court), Atlanta, for other party. Ashby K. Fox, Louis G. Fiorilla (Burr & Forman LLP), Atlanta; Forrest S. Latta (Burr & Forman LLP), Mobile; D. Victor Reynolds, John Stuart Melvin, Michael Scott Carlson, John Richard Edwards, Amelia Greeson Pray (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for neutral amicus.
    Case Number: S17G0832

    The Court of Appeals did not err in affirming the trial court's decision finding that the compensation of the CEO of a car manufacturing company was admissible in a wrongful death suit because the prejudicial effect of the evidence did not outweigh its probative value pursuant to Rule 403.

  • Mercer University v. Stofer et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-24
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Education | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Ray
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Trulock, Alan Payne (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ranse Partin, Davis Popper (Conley Griggs Partin LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1515

    Triable Issues Of Fact As To Whether University Was Liable For Slip-And-Fall At Sponsored Event