U.S. Sugar and Railroad Cleared in Worker's $2M FELA Suit
Sep 8, 2015
U.S. Sugar and its railroad, South Central Florida Express, prevailed Tuesday in a worker’s suit claiming a depot yard accident caused his post-concussion syndrome and required his hip replacement.
Sep 4, 2015
A Fulton County State Court jury issued a verdict in favor of an Atlantic Station high-rise condo association and its management company in a case involving a plastic surgeon who fell and was injured in the complex's theater room.
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Sep 2, 2015
Jurors awarded a Florida widower $750,000 for the death of his wife after finding that her decades of smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes, but not the company's allegedly deceptive marketing, caused her fatal lung cancer.
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Sep 1, 2015
Plaintiff plastic surgeon claims a condo association and management company are responsible for a fall that fractured his hip.
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U.S. Sugar Faces Trial Over Worker's Claim of Career-Ending Rail Yard Accident
Aug 28, 2015
As trial opened Wednesday in a rail yard laborer's suit against U.S. Sugar and its short line railroad, attorneys debated the circumstances and severity of the depot accident that allegedly left Manuel Valdes with an artificial hip and post-concus...
Aug 28, 2015
See Marc Matthews close the connection between a construction company's roadwork decisions and a fatal car collision.
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Aug 27, 2015
A wrongful death trial continues in Fulton County State Court in the case of a 19-year old industrial worker who was burned alive as the result of an accident at the Newell Recycling of Atlanta facility in East Point.
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Aug 26, 2015
In this personal injury action, Manuel Valdes claims U.S. Sugar Corp. is responsible for shoulder, head, and hip injuries he sustained in a railway depot accident involving Valdes' employer, South Central Florida Express, the short line railroad o...
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Hilario v. Newell Recycling of Atlanta
Aug 25, 2015
Erik Hilario, age 19, was working at Newell Recycling's East Point facility when he died in a fire. His parents brought the suit against various related corporate entries. He was working on a machine that punched holes in gas tanks to drain them b...
Aug 25, 2015
James Lanier was a 24-year-old electrical worker who was killed when hit by equipment at an Ameristeel mill in Cartersville. His family filed the wrongful death action against Gerdau Ameristeel.
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Aug 24, 2015
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Martha Duignan claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, while fueling the nicotine addiction of Douglas Duignan, ultimately leading to Douglas Duignan's smoking-related disease.
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Aug 21, 2015
R.J. Reynolds prevailed this week in a suit brought by the widow of a Cuban immigrant who died of respiratory disease after decades of smoking the tobacco company's unfiltered cigarettes.
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