Court Personal Injury Tennessee 
Attorney at Work
MAY 31, 2022
Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules.
Day on Torts
MAY 23, 2023
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. 28-3-104(a)(2), but the trial court granted dismissal, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Code Ann. § Code Ann. §
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Day on Torts
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The only issue in this personal injury case was damages. Plaintiff and his experts also testified that plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury in the accident. The trial court applied the statutory non-economic damages cap to reduce the award to $1,529,777, which the Court of Appeals affirmed in a lengthy opinion.
Day on Torts
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Where plaintiff’s personal injury claim was based on a Tennessee car accident for which defendant was given a traffic citation for failure to exercise due care under Tenn. In this case, the sole issue was whether this statute was “applicable to traffic citations,” which was a matter of first impression in Tennessee.
Day on Torts
APRIL 16, 2021
Plaintiff filed a civil warrant in general sessions court against defendant insurance company, who insured defendant driver, in July 2019. The trial court granted the motion to dismiss, and plaintiff appealed to the circuit court, where the case was dismissed again. On appeal, dismissal was affirmed. citing Tenn. Code Ann. §
Day on Torts
JANUARY 18, 2022
Plaintiff was in an accident while driving an HMA vehicle, and he filed a personal injury suit and gave HMA’s insurer, defendant Liberty Mutual, notice of a potential uninsured motorist claim. The evidence showed that in 2002, an HMA representative had rejected uninsured motorist coverage in Tennessee in a signed, dated document.
Day on Torts
AUGUST 13, 2021
Where the jury returned a verdict for defendants and the trial court awarded defendants certain discretionary costs, the judgment was affirmed because plaintiff had not properly raised several of his arguments in the trial court and “the trial court did not abuse its discretion on the remaining issues.”. In Murphy v. Sarta , No.
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