Cedra Mayfield is a litigation reporter with the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. She can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @cedramayfield
"I thought it was too low for the pain and suffering and the value of the life," said plaintiff attorney Ben C. Brodhead of Brodhead Law. "I thought what she went through was so horrible that no amount of money would be sufficient."
The attorneys for an Atlanta woman injured in a low-impact collision with a city bus employed an unusual tactic in obtaining a $1.2 million jury award for their client.
Plaintiff's attorneys Michael Rafi and Christopher Stokes created a hypothetical job posting for their client, who was injured in a low-impact accident with a city bus, and said it was up to the jury to decide how much the 'job' was worth.
Three Georgia attorneys based their litigation strategy on unusual theories of liability and turned it into a multi-million dollar payout from the employer of an at-fault driver in a fatal auto accident.
Litigators overcame multiple obstacles in securing a favorable verdict for a Gwinnett County, Georgia woman injured in a collision with a truck driver.
"We ended up litigating an issue that I think comes up in a lot of cases but often isn't litigated to conclusion and that's the applicability of a direct action against a motor carriers insurer in a case in which the motor carrier is carrying its own property," said Jeb Butler of Butler Kahn in Atlanta.
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