Defense attorneys in personal injury cases often face the challenge of making sure that the natural jury sympathy for a badly injured plaintiff does not influence the jury’s determination of liability in a hard fought case. Merely informing the jurors that they shouldn’t let sympathy influence their decisions may not be enough, especially in situations in which the defense makes an issue of the plaintiff’s decisions leading up to the injury.
Atlanta—High school football can be a dangerous sport, but most injuries occur inside the stadium. However, one would-be spectator never even made it to the game, suffering a broken leg in an auto/pedestrian accident outside the stadium that led to a personal injury trial nearly five years later in Fulton County State Court. Sherma Dailey v. Denise Brock (11EV012807).
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Topics: Negligence, Georgia, Dailey v. Brock
Jonesboro, GA—A non-returned phone call is generally an annoyance, but two telephone calls from a concerned patient’s wife to a surgeon’s office that were never returned led to a wrongful death case in Clayton County State Court and, ultimately, a $3.5 million verdict, after the patient died within hours of the telephone calls. Pamela Douglas Banks v. South Atlanta Neurosurgery PC (2008 CV 08001).
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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Georgia
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Topics: Products Liability, Georgia, automotive
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Topics: Georgia, Terrell v. Hamilton
