June S. - Car vs. Pedestrian Accident

Sep 27, 2019

OUTCOME: Policy Limits Settlement

Anna R. - Hit and Run

Aug 09, 2019

OUTCOME: Policy Limits Settlement

Dustin R. - Hit and Run

Aug 09, 2019

OUTCOME: Policy Limits Settlement

Nathan W. - Trucking Accident

Apr 18, 2019

OUTCOME: $350,000 Settlement

Kendra A. - Hit and Run

Dec 15, 2017

OUTCOME: Double Policy Limits Settlement

Letitia S. - Hit and Run

Dec 15, 2017

OUTCOME: Double Policy Limits Settlement

Thorpe v. Sterling Equipment Co., 315 Ga. App. 909, 729 S.E.2d 52 (2012)

May 17, 2012

OUTCOME: Georgia Court of Appeals ruled in favor of our client in reversing judgment entered by trial court

Children and the administrator of estate of truck driver killed when load of cut timber shifted, crushing truck cab, brought action against truck leasing company and its principal, alleging leasing com ... pany owed driver a duty to inspect truck before delivering it to driver's employer, and that principal could be held liable for any torts he may have committed. The Superior Court, Glynn County, Scarlett, J., granted summary judgment in favor of defendants, and plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, McFadden, J., held that: (1) genuine issues of material fact as to whether a hazard existed when log truck was loaded with cut logs that could have posed a risk of “load shifting” which might have caused them to penetrate truck cab in an emergency stop, and whether truck lessor should have been aware of such a hazard, precluded summary judgment; (2) common-law rule that imposed liability for damages caused by suppliers of a chattel who failed to use reasonable care to inform likely users of the chattel's dangerous conditions did not impose a duty on lessor of log truck to inspect truck and its headache rack, or to ensure its safety; (3) truck lease agreement did not abridge any duty that would have arisen from bailment of truck; (4) genuine issue of material fact as to whether logging truck lessee waived its rights against lessor under a bailment theory precluded summary judgment; and (5) genuine issue of material fact as to whether lessor's agent actually committed a tort precluded summary judgment.