Civil Litigation

Recent Cases

Georgia’s Personal Care Homes Poorly Regulated, Often Dangerous

January 24, 2013

Last year, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a series of reports on what it called an epidemic of mistreatment and unhealthy conditions at personal home care facilities throughout the state, stemming largely from a lack of oversight by state and local authorities. According to the newspaper, a boom in growth of these facilities combined with a […]

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Police High-Speed Chases Lead to Fatalities and Lawsuits in Georgia

April 11, 2012

The Atlanta Journal Constitution recently described the large liabilities faced by Georgia state and county governments for the disastrous results of high-speed chases that take the lives of innocent motorists and pedestrians. Deaths resulting from high-speed chases have made headlines recently as the widow of one man killed by a police cruiser took Gwinnett County […]

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Georgia Attorneys File Lawsuit Alleging Abuse at Fulton County School Leading to Death of Special Needs Student

March 3, 2012

The parents of Aaron Hatcher, an 18-year-old suffering from muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy, are suing the Fulton County School District alleging abuse by the school. Though the school district is not being sued for Hatcher’s death, the conduct of school personnel seems to be implicated in it. According to Hatcher’s father, Ronald, the boy […]

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Brought Against Kentucky Jail for Inadequate Medical Treatment

February 2, 2012

This Tuesday, the mother of a 26-year-old man who died while in a Lexington, Kentucky jail has sued a number of jail employees, accusing them of causing his wrongful death. Janet Davis claims that last summer, when her son Anthony Dwayne Davis was booked into the Fayette County Detention Center, jail employees ignored their pleas […]

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$2.3 Million “Slip and Fall” Verdict against Kroger in Gwinnett County, Ga

February 2, 2012

Last week, a Gwinnett County jury awarded $2.3 million to the victim of a slip-and-fall at a Douglasville Kroger. While the accident itself was not strange as far as slip-and-falls go, after Craig Walters slipped in the store in 2008, at least one Kroger employee decided to get rid of the evidence. Because of the […]

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