Birmingham, AL
Animal and dog bites Lawyer at Birmingham, AL
Practice Areas: Animal & Dog Bites, Aviation ... +14 more
OUTCOME:
Ghee v. USAble Mut. Ins., __ So.3d __, 2023 WL 2720996 (Ala. Mar. 31, 2023) (approving potential liability of a health insurer and holding that the claims were not barred by the federal ERISA statute b ... ecause the insurer acted like a healthcare provider and caused a death).
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(approving ability of plaintiffs to discover prior bad acts of impaired ambulance driver whose reckless driving caused a death of patient, who was a passenger in the ambulance).
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(Affirming district court decision upholding separation of insured clauses in liability insurance contract and requiring liability insurer to provide a legal defense and indemnity for parent corporatio ... n whose wrongful conduct caused an explosion that caused two deaths and serious burn injuries to a third worker).
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(Overruling prior bad precedent and clarifying that government employees who cause injury or death can be held liable if they do not use governmental discretion, violate clear laws or rules, and/or act ... willfully, maliciously, in bad faith, or through fraud).
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(Approving suits against healthcare providers who caused a death after the expiration of the statute of limitations when their employers and co-workers failed to disclose their identities within the st ... atute of limitations)
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(affirming multi-million-dollar jury verdict for severe injuries to child and rejecting the wrongdoing defendants’ contentions that the jury was biased).
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(Affirming potential liability of police officers who maliciously prosecuted citizen on the charges of attempted murder and rejecting the “any crime” rule, which would provide immunity to officers from ... false-arrest claims if there was probable cause to arrest the suspect for some crime (even a minor crime), even if it was not the crime the officer thought had occurred)
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(Approving of potential liability of parent company of employer for explosion deaths of two workers and rejecting the argument that the claims were barred by the workers’ compensation act).
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(Reversing circuit judge who failed to allow a timely amendment to a complaint).
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(Affirming potential liability of jailers under federal law for severe injuries to inmate when the jailers observed inmate having strokes and seizures for days but did nothing).