Day on Torts

MAY 7, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Maury County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MAY 2, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Madison County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 30, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Sevier County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 25, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Bradley County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 16, 2022

BirdDog Law is the leading resource center for Tennessee trial lawyers and paralegals. Among the free information included on the site is 95 databases, one for each county in Tennessee, which contain information about the court system in each county.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 23, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Washington County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 18, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Blount County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 16, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Wilson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 11, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Sullivan County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 9, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Montgomery County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 4, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Williamson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

APRIL 2, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Rutherford County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MARCH 28, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Hamilton County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MARCH 26, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Knox County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MARCH 21, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Davidson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MARCH 19, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Bedford County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MARCH 14, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Anderson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MARCH 12, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Marshall County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

MARCH 5, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Sumner County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The only issue in this personal injury case was damages. Plaintiff and his experts also testified that plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury in the accident. The trial court applied the statutory non-economic damages cap to reduce the award to $1,529,777, which the Court of Appeals affirmed in a lengthy opinion.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today we follow up on our previous post about the number of civil trials in Tennessee and we concentrate on the number of trials in Tennessee personal injury, wrongful death and other tort cases. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, there were 108 jury trials and 121 non-jury trials in Tennessee tort cases.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Where plaintiff’s personal injury claim was based on a Tennessee car accident for which defendant was given a traffic citation for failure to exercise due care under Tenn. In this case, the sole issue was whether this statute was “applicable to traffic citations,” which was a matter of first impression in Tennessee.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 16, 2021

Plaintiff filed a civil warrant in general sessions court against defendant insurance company, who insured defendant driver, in July 2019. The trial court granted the motion to dismiss, and plaintiff appealed to the circuit court, where the case was dismissed again. On appeal, dismissal was affirmed. citing Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 18, 2022

Plaintiff was in an accident while driving an HMA vehicle, and he filed a personal injury suit and gave HMA’s insurer, defendant Liberty Mutual, notice of a potential uninsured motorist claim. The evidence showed that in 2002, an HMA representative had rejected uninsured motorist coverage in Tennessee in a signed, dated document.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 13, 2021

Where the jury returned a verdict for defendants and the trial court awarded defendants certain discretionary costs, the judgment was affirmed because plaintiff had not properly raised several of his arguments in the trial court and “the trial court did not abuse its discretion on the remaining issues.”. In Murphy v. Sarta , No.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 5, 2024

According to the Tennessee Supreme Court, where an HCLA defendant did not assert in his answer that a non-party physician was the cause-in-fact of plaintiff’s injuries, the trial court did not err by excluding evidence supporting that allegation at trial, even when the defendant did not seek to prove that the other physician was negligent.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 26, 2021

On May 8, 2019, plaintiff filed a complaint for personal injury damages from the first accident, but she failed to name defendant as a party or refer to defendant in any way. The Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal. The purpose of Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 15.03 internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Where plaintiff’s uninsured motorist insurance policy stated that it covered “all damages” and prejudgment interest was not listed as a specific exception to coverage, the Court of Appeals ruled that the policy language was “sufficiently broad to include prejudgment interest.”. This appeal followed, and the trial court was reversed.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 14, 2021

The trial court originally ruled that the damages in total would be reduced to $750,000 pursuant to the damages cap, but then amended the ruling and held that the cap should be applied to each plaintiff separately, meaning that the wife would receive $750,000 and husband would receive $500,000. internal citation omitted).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. Again, the court agreed. even when accompanied by buckets of fake blood. __.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Courts regularly exclude injuries associated with the exercise of free speech or artistic expression. Again, the court agreed. even when accompanied by buckets of fake blood.

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This ruling was affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The Tennessee Claims Commission Rules also refer to the “time limit set out in T.C.A. § Plaintiff advanced several arguments in support of this theory, but the Court of Appeals rejected each one. Code Ann. § 9-8-402(c).” internal citation omitted). Code Ann. §

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. On June 15, 2023, the court issued the ultimate judgment not only on the torts claims but perhaps the state of our politics. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Six Flags St.

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