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Tennessee HCLA Case Dismissed under Statute of Limitations.

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31, 2022), patient was hospitalized at defendant hospital from August 7-24, 2020. When patient was discharged on August 24, 2020, he was told to follow up with his primary care physician, but on September 3, patient was taken to a wound treatment center. M2022-00476-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16545403 (Tenn.

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Tennessee Supreme Court Agrees to Review Comparative Fault Issue in Negligent Misrepresentation Case

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The Tennessee Supreme Court has agreed to accept review of a comparative fault issue concerning the tort of negligent misrepresentation. 2020-00511-SC-R11-CV. The case is Pryority Partnership v. The case is Pryority Partnership v. AMT Properties, LLC , No. Continue reading.

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Tennessee “Discovery Rule” Applied to Vehicle Crash Case

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8, 2020), the plaintiff’s husband was killed when his vehicle collided with one being driven by a firefighter. Based on the reasoning of Mills , the Court concluded that the plaintiff in this case was sufficiently on notice of her cause of action on the date of the accident to begin the limitations period.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

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Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. There was a failure to monitor employees and safeguard the scene.

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Six cases on the early-May calendar

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Like all calendars since April 2020 , and for the foreseeable future, May’s arguments will be remote and based in San Francisco. (See When the court granted review in August 2020 , the case was titled Ducksworth v. The court granted review in August 2020. The court granted review in February 2020. 2019) 7 Cal.5th

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Public Duty Doctrine Applied To Eliminate Claim

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16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. According to plaintiff, there was a bad storm the night of the accident and a tree had fallen across the state highway plaintiff was traveling on.