More Results in Personal
Injury and Tort Litigation
11. After a collapse during construction
of Philips Arena in Atlanta, the firm represented
the widow of an ironworker who was killed. By working
with experts who had been involved in large construction
projects such as the Georgia Dome and Turner Field,
the firm uncovered the reasons for the collapse and
filed a detailed lawsuit against eleven of the participants
in the Arena construction. The case settled after
only one deposition on terms favorable to our client.
12. The firm won the highest verdict
in a wrongful death case in Rockdale County, Georgia.
We represented the family of a deceased repairman
who was electrocuted while performing mechanical repairs
for the City of Conyers Water Department. Our investigation
proved that the City knew of electrical dangers inside
the manhole vault where the plaintiff's decedent was
performing his work, but failed either to repair them
or to warn of the electrical dangers. The verdict
of $4.735 million resulted in a settlement after trial.
13. Our firm represented an unsuspecting
Wal-Mart customer who was struck in the head and neck
by an extremely high stack of unrestrained merchandise
and who was permanently injured. When Wal-Mart refused
to provide information about the past incidents and
injuries to other customers who had been injured by
falling merchandise in Wal-Mart stores across the
country, our lawyers convinced a federal judge to
declare all of our allegations to be established as
true. With Wal-Mart's liability for both compensatory
damages and punitive damages established and with
a trial about to occur that would have focused on
the dangers of its merchandising practices, our firm
resolved the case on confidential terms that left
our clients "extremely pleased."
14. The firm represented the widow of
a 32 year-old husband and father who was killed by
a DUI driver in Paulding County, Georgia. Our investigation
located evidence which disproved the defendants' contentions
that the victim was also at fault and that the other
driver's employer should not be liable. Consequently,
the defendants' insurance company paid the entire
$2 million policy limits to resolve this case. Each
of the children now has a substantial college fund,
and the family's financial situation is secure.
15. Our attorneys represented a young
passenger in an automobile that collided with an illegally
parked tractor-trailer on the side of an interstate
highway. This young man sustained brain damage, and
the firm sought damages to establish a life care plan.
After a detailed accident reconstruction that showed
the danger created by the tractor-trailer's location,
a confidential settlement was reached.
16. Our attorneys represented a client
alleging that a large health care provider had defrauded
him and other patients and had inflated the cost of
treatment by secretly paying kickbacks for referrals
of patients. The firm brought a fraud and civil RICO
action against the providers involved. A confidential
settlement was reached before trial.
17. The firm won the largest known verdict
in Georgia in a false imprisonment case. Our client
had been detained and falsely accused on shoplifting
at a Neiman Marcus store in Atlanta, Georgia. She
was forced to go back inside the store against her
will, was handcuffed, and was strip searched. Our
attorneys convinced the jury that the defendant had
no basis for suspecting our client, much less assaulting,
strip searching, and traumatizing her. A federal jury
awarded $965,000.
18. Our attorneys were retained to investigate
a family's suspicions that an elderly relative was
being taken advantage of by her attorney, accountant,
and other "care givers." Working with a fraud examiner,
we uncovered evidence of attempts to transfer more
than $1 million in assets. In addition to recovering
substantial damages, the firm obtained an injunction
and the appointment of an emergency guardian to stop
the transfers and to deprive the attorney, accountant,
and others of their control of this elderly woman's
affairs. The case is now awaiting trial to recover
actual and punitive damages. The firm also tried and
won a Will contest over a fraudulently prepared Will.
(Because the elderly are often the targets of fraud,
the firm has since developed a public education program
on preventing fraud against the elderly. The firm
presents this program to senior citizen groups without
charge).
19. In January, 2001, the firm won what
is believed to be the first million dollar verdict
of 2001 in Georgia -- a $1.2 million verdict in federal
court for a Korean grocer who was injured when trying
to stop a tractor-trailer from damaging his property.
The defense was that our client assumed the risk and
was contributorily negligent by entering the path
of a tractor-trailer whose driver could not see him.
The verdict was 48 times the amount offered to our
client.
20. Our attorneys represented a teenager
who was brain-damaged because of a single car accident
in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The firm established
that a paving contractor had improperly graded the
shoulder of the road and created a dangerous "drop-off" condition
that was a cause of these injuries. Through a confidential
settlement, the child obtained an annuity for life
to take care of the child's lifelong needs.
21. The firm represented a client who
was assaulted by bouncers at a nightclub in Forsyth
County, Georgia. Although the employees of the club
claimed that they acted in self defense, the jury
found that the bouncers' assault was intentional.
The jury awarded the client $265,000.00
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