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Worth More Dead Than Alive? Here's What Recent Verdicts Say About Jurors

"I think wrongful-death verdicts are a lot higher than they used to historically be ... but it's so dependent on [the facts of each case]," said plaintiff attorney Jeff R. Harris of Harris Lowry Manton.
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Daily Report Online

Woman Sues Braves Player for Alleged Injuries From Ball Thrown in Stands

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Jury Awards $1.3 Million For Intersection Crash in Essex County

An Essex County jury awarded $1.3 million on Sept. 29 in Terell v. Chitra to a woman who suffered neck, back and shoulder injuries in a motor vehicle accident.
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Texas Lawyer

REVERSED: $3.2M Award Undone Amid Lengthy Dissent Over Stray Cow

The trial court found Victor Ybarra's testimony uncredible; the testimony of an interested witness raises a fact issue, and whether to credit that testimony is a question for the factfinder, Justice Gordon Goodman noted in his dissent.
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Law.com

Maryland Judge Finds Company May Have Had 'Actual Notice' of Hazard in Slip-and-Fall Suit

A federal judge in Maryland denied a government contractor's motion for summary judgment in a slip-and-fall lawsuit, finding a reasonable juror could conclude that the defendants had actual notice of water left on its lobby floor because its employees had been mopping in the area.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Suit: Fall on Defective Stairs Caused Vision Impairment

On Oct. 16, 2019, plaintiff Kathleen Bleakley, 76, was walking toward a clothing boutique in a small strip mall in Wexford. She claimed that she tripped and fell on stairs which caused her to strike her face against a brick windowsill, fracturing her orbital bone.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Supreme Court Decision Will Change the Way Many Premises Liability Cases Are Litigated

By broadening the scope of liability in negligent security premises liability cases, the ruling creates more uncertainty and ambiguity about how foreseeability can be established.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$3.2M Verdict for Doctor in Slip-and-Fall Case Against Hospital

The discovery of a single document helped clinch a $3.2 million jury verdict Sept. 14 in an oral surgeon's slip-and-fall suit against a northwestern Pennsylvania hospital.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Man Sues Exxon Mobil After Shot in Face By Gas Station Security Guard

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Key Document Helps Score $3.2M Slip-and-Fall Verdict Against Northwestern Pa. Hospital

Brendan Lupetin said the discovery highlighted that attorneys should "keep digging into the circumstance that led up to this happening and not just [leave] it at the event."
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