In Maloof v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, A14A2233 (Ga. Ct. of Appeals, Feb. 24, 2015), an automobile accident case, the Georgia Court of Appeals held that pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 24-8-803(8) a police report falls under the public records exception to the hearsay rule and is admissible. The Court noted that the references in […]

In the recently-decided Adams v. Laboratory Corporation of America, Case No. 13-10425, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals provided some legal guidance on application of industry guidelines to motions to exclude expert testimony. The case concerned the Plaintiffs’ claim that Defendant LabCorp repeatedly failed to identify abnormal cells in Pap smear reviews, resulting in a delay in […]

The Georgia Supreme Court just issued a new ruling this week in which it held that when a Plaintiff becomes entitled to an award of attorney’s fees pursuant to Georgia’s offer of judgment statute, O.C.G.A. § 9-11-68, the court must take into account more than the contingency fee agreement plaintiff has with their attorney. Georgia […]

With the rapid proliferation of social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in recent years, parties to litigation now have access to information on subjects’ private lives that in an earlier era would only have been accessible by hiring a private investigator. In many instances, it is possible to find information online about […]

The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur requires that a plaintiff show that whatever caused the plaintiff’s injury was in the exclusive control of the defendant and but for the defendant’s negligence, the plaintiff would not have been injured. Clearly, it is one of the hardest tests in tort law to meet because generally there is […]