The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Lauderdale County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023.
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After slipping and falling in a retail store, plaintiff had evidence that the store was aware of the spill with enough time to address or warn about it. Summary judgment for the store was therefore reversed.
In Alcantar v. Dolgencorp, LLC, No. M2023-01143-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Sept. 6, 2023), plaintiff slipped on liquid while shopping at defendant Dollar General store. Immediately after the fall, an employee came to check on plaintiff and told plaintiff that there was a large milk spill in the next aisle. Plaintiff took photos showing liquid in the aisle where he fell, as well as liquid in the next aisle accompanied by a mop and bucket. The photo of the next aisle also showed an employee cleaning the spill along with a warning sign.
Plaintiff filed a premises liability claim against the store. During depositions, the store manager stated that the standard procedure for a spill was to put up warning signs and to use gray towels to soak up any liquid. During plaintiff’s deposition, he admitted that he did not know how long the liquid had been in the floor. He testified that no gray towels were in use in the clean up on the next aisle. Instead, the employee was using a mop or squeegee and appeared to be spreading the liquid into the aisle where plaintiff fell.
The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in McNairy County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023.
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Where plaintiff’s workers’ compensation attorney received documents that provided notice of a potential HCLA claim, that notice was not imputed to plaintiff because the HCLA claim was not within the scope of the attorney’s representation of plaintiff.
In Marc v. Eck, No. E2023-01643-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 29, 2024), plaintiff was represented by an attorney in a workers’ compensation matter. In preparation for mediation in that matter, the attorney was given voluminous medical records on November 10, 2020. Included in these records were files related to a back surgery defendant performed on plaintiff on August 2, 2019.
Plaintiff’s workers’ compensation attorney began reviewing the records on November 30, 2020. During this review, she found notes from the surgery indicating that defendant had operated on the wrong section of plaintiff’s spine. The attorney informed plaintiff of this discovery sometime between November 30 and December 4, 2020, which was plaintiff’s first notice that the surgery had been performed incorrectly.
The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in White County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023.
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The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Carroll County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023.
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In a car accident case where the jury found the defendant not liable, the Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict based partially on evidence from which the jury could have found the plaintiff not credible.
In Summerrow v. Welsh, No. E2023-00772-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 23, 2024), plaintiff and defendant were involved in a car accident in a mall parking lot. A police officer who was called to the scene reported very minor damage to the vehicles, which were corner to corner on the front bumpers. Plaintiff did not report any injuries to the officer.
According to plaintiff, he began having neck and shoulder issues the day after the wreck that required various treatments over the following years. Plaintiff filed this personal injury suit based on this neck and shoulder injury.
The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Henderson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023.
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The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Marion County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023.
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While a plaintiff faced with a TPPA petition to dismiss could not make out a prima facie case for his false light invasion of privacy or intentional infliction of emotional distress claims, his defamation claim related to an allegedly false Title IX rape complaint was allowed to proceed.
In Doe v. Roe, No. M2023-00045-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 21, 2024), plaintiff had filed suit against defendant based on defendant’s allegations that plaintiff raped her on a college campus. Plaintiff’s complaint included claims for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress based on defendant’s statements to friends and family, postings on social media, and filing of a Title IX complaint.
After the complaint was filed, defendant moved to dismiss under the Tennessee Public Participation Act (“TPPA”). The trial court denied the petition, finding the TPPA inapplicable to this case. In a first appeal, the Court of Appeals ruled that defendant’s “filing of a Title IX complaint fell within the scope of the TPPA.” The Court of Appeals remanded to the trial court “for a determination regarding whether there is a prima facie case for [plaintiff’s] claims against [defendant] insofar as they pertain to her Title IX complaint…” On remand, the trial court granted the TPPA petition to dismiss the false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims connected to the Title IX filing, but it denied dismissal of the defamation claim. This appeal followed, where the trial court ruling was affirmed.
