Atlanta, GA
Car accident Lawyer at Atlanta, GA
Practice Areas: Car Accidents, Wrongful Death ... +3 more
OUTCOME: $2,500,000.00 settlement at commencement of trial
Westrex Corporation, a business that manufactured and distributed sophisticated, high-end electronics components suffered damage to a significant portion of its inventory when a City of Atlanta sewage ... line backed up resulting in flooding inside Westrex' building.
OUTCOME: Jury awarded $1.15 million dollars
Plaintiff slipped and fell as she approached the bottom of an outdoor stairway on the hospital grounds, resulting in a fractured ankle and a low back injury. Plaintiff contended that the hospital faile ... d to properly maintain or otherwise clean the stairs. As a result, the stairs became dangerously slick after it rained, and this caused Plaintiff's fall. The hospital denied fault and refused to make any settlement offers in response to Plaintiff's pre-suit offer to settle for $300,000.00. Following a week long trial, a jury awarded Plaintiff $1,148,078.10, nearly $50,000.00 more than the limits of the hospital's insurance policy.
OUTCOME: Appellate Court struck down anti-patient statute
Plaintiff successfully challenged the validity of a newly enacted statute that required medical malpractice victims to provide defendants with an authorization that would allow the defendants to obtain ... the plaintiff's medical records without the plaintiff's knowledge or express permission. On behalf of Ms. Queen, plaintiff's counsel argued that this Georgia statute was inconsistent with, and therefore pre-empted by, federal law that established confidentiality of medical records. The Georgia Court of Appeals agreed with the plaintiff, holding that the new law was improper and contrary to well-established privacy rights provided for by federal law.
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