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By Aleeza Furman | November 30, 2023
A meat processing company has agreed to pay $12 million to the estate of a worker who was killed by a ricocheting knife.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 27, 2023
Hawaiian Electric has moved to quash a subpoena of an ex-employee who plaintiffs say has records of its knowledge about wildfire risks.
4 minute read
By Cedra Mayfield | November 27, 2023
"[T]he Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's ruling on the official-capacity claims on the ground that the public duty doctrine barred all of [the appellant's] claims without considering the threshold jurisdictional question of whether sovereign immunity barred [the appellant's] claims against [the appellee] in her official capacity," the Supreme Court of Georgia held.
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By Lisa Willis | November 21, 2023
"It was up to Thierry Bastien to save her, and in so doing, he lost his life, and his children lost their father," plaintiff counsel said.
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By Alex Anteau | November 20, 2023
According to plaintiff's counsel Mark Meliski, the defense's strategy posed one of the greatest challenges throughout the litigation process—especially once their codefendant admitted negligence a couple of weeks before trial.
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By Emily Cousins | November 17, 2023
"We think what the school did is wrong," Joaquin Madry said. "They failed to supervise him, and allowed him to lay out on a mat, and he was not given the proper medical treatment he should have received, which we believe would have kept him alive."
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By Aleeza Furman | November 17, 2023
"When reviewing a potential case where somebody has been injured, it's important for lawyers to look at affiliates of the employer to see whether those affiliates may have done something to give them liability," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman said.
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By Aleeza Furman | November 16, 2023
"The consequence of imposing a duty on the RHJ parties in this case would be to expose them to liability to the public at large in the event of a car accident involving a patient," Judge Victor Stabile wrote in the opinion.
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By Cedra Mayfield | November 14, 2023
"The crux of the case was the failure to obtain a chest CT [scan] after the placement of the mechanical heart pump and before the heart transplant over a year later," said plaintiff counsel Lee Gutschenritter of Finch McCranie in Atlanta.
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By Brian Lee | November 13, 2023
The settlement was an unusual one for New York, as the state's current wrongful death laws limit the types of damages that decedents' relatives may seek with such actions. Legislation to amend the statutes awaits a Gov. Kathy Hochul's signature.
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