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Stats About Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Verdicts in Dyer County, Tennessee

Information is now available on the number of personal injury and wrongful death trials and jury verdicts in Dyer County, Tennessee (county seat:  Dyersburg) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 64 personal injury and wrongful death cases closed in closed in Dyer  County (not including health…

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City ordinance violation does not extend Tennessee’s typical one-year personal injury statute of limitations.

Ordinarily and subject to several important exceptions, the statute of limitations in Tennessee personal injury cases is one year.    One exception to that rule is Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a(2), which addresses situations where the civil defendant faced criminal charges as a result of a incident giving rise to…

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Tennessee GTLA case that includes non-governmental entity defendants can be heard by a jury.

Where a GTLA case involves both governmental and non-governmental defendants and a party demands a jury trial, the entire case is to be heard by the jury. In Vandyke v. Cheek, No. M2022-00938-COA-R10-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. May 3, 2023), plaintiff filed suit after a car accident caused in part by…

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Stats About Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Verdicts in Wilson County, Tennessee

Information is now available on the number of personal injury and wrongful death trials and jury verdicts in Wilson County, Tennessee (county seat: Lebanon) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 201 personal injury and wrongful death cases closed in Wilson County (not including health care liability…

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Stats About Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Verdicts in Montgomery County, Tennessee

Information is now available on the number of personal injury and wrongful death trials and jury verdicts in Montgomery County, Tennessee (county seat:  Clarksville) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 315 personal injury and wrongful death cases closed in Montgomery  County (not including health care liability…

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Stats of Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Jury Verdicts in Robertson County, Tennessee

Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Robertson County, Tennessee (county seat: Springfield) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 82 tort cases closed in Robertson County (not including health care liability act cases) and 0 tort trials.  Here is…

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Supreme Court addresses standard for favorable termination in a malicious prosecution claim based on a criminal case.

In a malicious prosecution case where the underlying case was criminal rather than civil, a plaintiff “can pursue a claim for malicious prosecution only if an objective examination, limited to the documents disposing of the proceeding or the applicable procedural rules, indicates the termination of the underlying criminal proceeding reflects…

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Dismissal based on statute of limitations affirmed; court relied on judicial notice of court file

Where the trial court took judicial notice of items from the court case underlying a tort action for invasion of privacy, abuse of process, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, it did not convert the motion to dismiss to a motion for summary judgment and dismissal of the claims based…

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Stats About Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Verdicts in Sullivan County, Tennessee

Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Sullivan County, Tennessee (county seat: Blountville) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 181 personal injury and wrongful death cases closed in Sullivan County (not including health care liability act cases) and only…

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Practical Procedure and Evidence

Have you checked out my new blog, “Practical Procedure and Evidence?” The blog concentrates on Tennessee procedure and evidence issues, although occasionally I review out-of-state decisions that I think may be of interest to Tennessee lawyers.  Thirty-seven posts have already been published on a variety of topics of interest to…

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