Increasingly, Georgia juries have awarded large verdicts against business owners for crimes that happen on their premises. For instance, in March, a Fulton County jury hit CVS for $43 million in a parking lot shooting case. In April, a Dekalb jury awarded $69 million in a robbery and carjacking case against Kroger. These …
In granting summary judgment in a premises liability case, Judge Purdom exonerated the glass beer mug, ruling that a “glass beer mug is not so inherently dangerous that a bar must not allow customers to use glass or monitor the glassware with extraordinary care.” Read the order here.
In the recently decided Lomax v. Kroger Co., No. A18A1491, 2019 WL 761190 (Ga. Ct. App. Feb. 21, 2019), the Georgia Court of Appeals, noting that “a plaintiff in a slip and fall action need not show how long the hazard has been present unless the owner has demonstrated that …
As promised, we are following up on Georgia’s recent billion-dollar verdict. After some thorough investigation, there is good news to report. In effect, the defendant security company did NOT have a law firm defending it, and the case was tried essentially in a default procedural posture. Oddly, this information was …
In the past few years, we have seen the value of verdicts in Georgia – especially in metro-Atlanta – rapidly increase. Well, the trend continues on steroids as a Clayton County jury yesterday returned the most shocking verdict on a personal injury lawsuit in Georgia (and likely US) history: $1,000,000,000! …
Recently, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision in Prioleu v. Kentucky Fried Chicken, Inc. (074040) in which it addressed the mode-of-operation rule and its application to a fall in a fast food restaurant. Significantly, the Court clarified that mode-of-operation applies only to situations where the customer foreseeably serves …