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By Adolfo Pesquera | March 18, 2024
Plaintiffs counsel convinced the jury Andre McDonald was grossly negligent and unjustly enriched by his wife's death, elements needed to create a constructive trust that could ensure hidden assets would not be discharged in a possible future bankruptcy.
5 minute read
By Alan B. Morrison | March 18, 2024
The decision of the Alabama Supreme Court in LaPage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, allowing the parents whose embryos were kept in a cryogenic nursery and were negligently destroyed to sue the company that had control of them, is a fair result. Although there is language in the opinion for the court, as well as in the concurring opinions, that has caused considerable and justified concern.
7 minute read
By Alex Anteau | March 15, 2024
The plaintiff-appellant is the mother of a child who was shot by another boy who lived in the apartment complex. She argued that if the landlord took action to remove the gun from the child's apartment unit after receiving reports that he was carrying it in the common areas, her son wouldn't have died.
4 minute read
By Lisa Willis | March 14, 2024
There was enough evidence to issue citations for what the [OSHA] termed "serious violations.
3 minute read
By Ellen Bardash | March 13, 2024
The jury found the University of Chicago Medical Center liable for birth injuries that led to the death of a boy at the age of 4.
4 minute read
By Emily Cousins | March 11, 2024
"There's a reason, in a lot of jurisdictions, they have pursuit policies that say do not pursue juveniles in stolen cars," John Buckley Jr. said. "The balancing act between the need for immediate apprehension, particularly when the car has a GPS and is running low on gas versus potential harm immediately to the public. That balancing test is fairly easy to do in this case. There has to be an adult in the room, and the adult in the room has to be the police department. This pursuit should have never started in the first place, and it should have been shut down long before the time that this incident occurred."
5 minute read
By Cedra Mayfield | March 7, 2024
"This verdict brings us closer, but we're not done yet," said prevailing plaintiff counsel James Hugh Potts II of JHPII in Atlanta.
8 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 29, 2024
Frank Burford worked as an aluminum smelter at an Alcoa plant in Rockdale. However, it was his wife Carolyn who died in 2015, allegedly because for 25 years she had been washing her husband's contaminated work clothes.
4 minute read
By Alex Anteau | February 28, 2024
"The type of harm that occurred … is precisely the type of harm that the statute was designed to guard against," the court wrote in a unanimous opinion.
4 minute read
By Emily Cousins | February 27, 2024
"When she rented the property, Airbnb promised her a safe and secure home away from home," the complaint alleged. "Unbeknownst to Debra, the Airbnb property she rented for her vacation getaway turned out to be a death trap."
3 minute read
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