Day on Torts

The University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service, Municipal Technical Advisory Service,   has a collection  of municipal codes and charters of most of the cities in Tennessee.  

The Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ordered a district judge to re-consider the fee to be awarded to plaintiff’s counsel in a personal injury case that resulted in a $18M dollar settlement.  The district court had cut the fee from $6M to $600,000. The appellate court concluded that…

Max Kennerly has this interesting post that sprung from a post on Kevin, M.D. about a doctor who was a victim of poor medical care.  The doctor went to a lawyer, not because she wanted money (she said) but because she wanted an apology.  The lawyer couldn’t take her case…

Are you a male lawyer who finds a woman in your office particularly attractive?   Are you weird enough to even contemplate secreting a camera under her desk and filming  …  whatever? Well, it allegedly crossed the mind of this Atlanta tax lawyer, and he is accused of actually putting…

Can’t quite figure out if that automobile accident case happened in Davidson or Wilson County, Tennessee?   This website has a detailed map of every Tennessee county that you can use to start your investigation into this issue.

The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts has released a database that allows the public to see what number of cases were closed in each judicial district and by each of the trial judges in the state.  The database allows searches by judicial district or by judge. When a judge’s…

The horrible flooding in Nashville has delayed our printer’s ability to finish the 3rd edition of Day on Torts.  It now looks like we will not be able to ship the book until May 28, 2010.    Day on Torts:  Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law consists of a summary…

Plaintiff had the obligation to seek attorneys fees in a case by a date certain.  Plaintiff”s counsel and defense counsel agreed on multiple occasions to extend the deadline so that they can negotiate the fee issue, but Plaintiff failed  to file a written stipulation concerning the extension with the Court…

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a defendant in a personal injury action may introduce evidence that plaintiff’s health care provider "wrote off" certain medical charges for care given to the plaintiff. The plaintiff was billed $21,874.80 for care received in the accident.  His health insurer paid $7.483.91 of…

You haven’t seen much about it in the press yet,  but BP has the benefit of a cap that will probably limit its liability for the oil spill in the Gulf.  Section 1004 of the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), passed into law in August 1990 after the Exxon Valdez incident, limits…