Where an Tennessee HCLA plaintiff’s HIPAA authorization had an error in the “purpose” section, but the potential defendants only included two physicians who were employed by the third potential defendant health system and plaintiff asserted that the defendant health system was the only potential defendant who possessed any relevant medical…
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Gender-Affirming Care Creates Tort Liability
My newest article, “Gender-Affirming Care Creates Tort Liability,” as published in the Tennessee Bar Journal.
Stats on Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases in Rutherford County, Tennessee
Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Rutherford County, Tennessee (county seat – Murfreesboro) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. The data is some of the most shocking data that comes from the recently released Tennessee case filing statitics There were…
Stats About Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Verdicts in Putnam County, Tennessee
Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Putnam County, Tennessee (county seat: Cookeville) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 93 personal injury and wrongful death cases closed in Putnam County (not including health care liability act cases) and not…
Stats on Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Filings and Verdicts in Williamson County, Tennessee
Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Williamson County, Tennessee (county seat – Franklin) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 255 tort cases closed in Williamson County (not including health care liability act cases) and 4 tort trials. Here…
Stats About Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Verdicts in Maury County, Tennessee
Information is now available on the number of personal injury and wrongful death trials and jury verdicts in Maury County, Tennessee for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 157 personal injury and wrongful death cases closed in Maury County (not including health care liability act cases) and…
TPPA Motion to Dismiss Required Trial Court to Engage in Three-Step Analysis.
Where defendant moved to dismiss a defamation suit under the Tennessee Public Participation Act (“TPPA”), and the trial court failed to take into account the third step of the TPPA burden-shifting framework which considers whether a defendant can establish a valid defense to the claims, the case was remanded for…
Stats About Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases and Verdicts in Sumner County, Tennessee
Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Sumner County, Tennessee (county seat: Gallatin) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 236 personal injury and wrongful death cases closed in Sumner County (not including health care liability act cases) and 5…
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Stats on Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Filings and Trials in Knoxville and Knox County, Tennessee
Information is now available on the number of tort trials and jury verdicts in Knox County, Tennessee for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. There were 2164 tort cases closed in Knox County (not including health care liability act cases) and 40 tort trials. Here is how that compares…