In a recent case, a woman appealed the dismissal of a tort claim against the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The trial court had ruled that her ante litem notice failed
In a recent pair of personal injury cases, a Georgia Court of Appeals considered lawsuits arising from the explosion of a mobile home. The plaintiffs in the case sued the Atlanta Gas Light Company and
Two 2013 companion appeals arose out of a products liability arbitration. The arbitrator in the cases had found the buyer of a defective motor trike had $750,000 worth of damages because of a rollover accident.
In a recent case, the Georgia Supreme Court considered a premises liability case in which an 83-year-old woman was attacked and killed by an alligator in a planned residential community owned by The Landings. At
In a Georgia negligence claim, a plaintiff must show (1) a duty, (2) breach of the duty, (3) proximate cause, and (4) damages. Proximate cause can be tricky to prove. In a recent appellate case, a
The Georgia Supreme Court has explained that in a premises liability case, a plaintiff has to show his or her injury was cause by a hazard on an owner or occupier’s land that the owner
In a recent Georgia appellate case, an 86-year-old woman developed a painful knee infection after receiving an injection at a clinic for her arthritis. A physician’s assistant who injected her knee with medication from a
In Georgia, a car driving recklessly and in tandem with another car can be held liable if the second car gets into a crash under a “joint enterprise” theory of liability. In a recent case,
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