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Can A Police Officer Sue a 9-1-1 Caller For Failure to Warn of Danger of Assault? 22 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
A Texas police officer has sued a 9-1-1 caller for failing to warn the 9-1-1 official (and thus the police officer) that the police responding to the call would be walking into a dangerous situation. ...
Can You Strike Potential Jurors Because of Their Sexual Orientation? 16 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
The law gives parties the right to strike a limited number prospective jurors from serving on a particular jury without demonstrating "cause, but that right is limited by case law designed to prohibit...
Thoughts About A Doctor Paying A Judgment in Quarters 6 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
Dr. Roger Herrin, upset that he had to share money with those who were injured in a car wreck that also took his son's life, paid the $500,000 he owed in quarters. 7,500 hundred pounds of quarters....
A Referral Service (And Others) Gets Sued By State Farm - Allegations of Improper Referrals to Plaintiffs' Law Firms (And More) 31 Jul 2013 | 06:27 am
State Farm, a leading auto insurer, has sued a referral service, chiropractic firm and others alleging, inter alia, that they engaged in a fraudulent scheme of referrals to and from a plaintiff's fir...
Tennessee Products Liability Statute of Repose Applied to Bar Claim 29 Jul 2013 | 05:55 pm
Tennessee has a ten-year statute of repose that bars most products liability claims ten years after the product at issue was sold to the first user or consumer. Unlike a statute of limitation, a stat...
Tennessee Medical Malpractice Cases - Information From the National Practitioner Data Bank 15 Jul 2013 | 02:07 pm
The National Practitioner Data Bank collects data about medical malpractice settlements of $10,000 and more. Here is some recent information about Tennessee physician judgments and settlements as rep...
A Comment on State v. Zimmerman 14 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
Ok, State v. Zimmerman was a criminal case, not a civil case. much less a tort case. (Zimmerman may be sued by Martin's family - more on that below). But, in the "for what it's worth department, here ...
An Important Change to the Tennessee Statute of Limitations That Affects the Rights of the Mentally Disabled 2 Jul 2013 | 03:08 pm
For many years, the Tennessee statute of limitations was tolled for those of "unsound mind." That law has now changed, and the statue of limitations is tolled only for those who are "adjudicated inco...
Case Selection for Plaintiff's Lawyers - 2013 Update 27 Jun 2013 | 03:30 pm
About eight years ago I wrote a guest post for Legal Underground that addressed the importance of case selection by plaintiff's lawyers. The post got lots of discussion, and in fact I ended up doing ...
Tennessee General Assembly Fixes One Small Problem With The Tort Reform Legislation 21 Jun 2013 | 03:16 pm
Well, it ain't much, but the Tennessee Legislature has fixed one small problem with the tort reform legislation that impacts all tort cases arising on or after October 1, 2011. The original legislati...
