Mark Avera's Closing Argument Sets Up $1.1M Verdict at Trial Over Backbreaking Fall From House Deck |Video|
Apr 27, 2018
The destruction of key evidence can kneecap a plaintiff’s case, regardless of any adverse inference instruction a judge may give. In 2017's Fournier v. Derazi trial, however, Mark Avera overcame the destruction of vital evidence to win a seven-fig...
Feb 7, 2018
A Nevada state court jury slapped a homeowners association with a $20 million verdict on February 15, including $10 million in punitive damages, in a lawsuit filed by a teenager who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a swing sets metal bar b...
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Feb 2, 2018
Jurors Wednesday found a North Georgia apartment's owners and managers only one percent responsible for the shooting death of one of its tenants, insulating the complex from the vast majority of the seven-figure award it calculated.
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Jan 25, 2018
A Georgia man was killed at his apartment complex because the property’s owners ignored the grim findings of a report detailing the area’s crime, an attorney for the man’s family told jurors as trial opened against the owners and complex managers ...
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Alexis v. Riverstone Residential SE
Jan 22, 2018
Plainitiffs claim defendant property owner's and security company's negligence led to the shooting death of a individual.
Oct 13, 2017
Jurors Wednesday awarded $500,000 to a woman who shattered her leg in a house deck collapse, after they found the home’s owner largely responsible for the crash and cleared the property manager of responsibility.
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Oct 9, 2017
In this premises liability case, plaintiff seeks damages for injuries she suffered in a deck collapse.
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Aug 30, 2017
Jurors awarded a total of $3.5 million earlier this month to a pair of Georgia women shot outside a Stone Mountain-area nightclub.
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Canaday v. Jay's Place Sports Bar & Lounge
Aug 15, 2017
Jurors awarded a total of $3.5 million to a pair of Georgia women shot outside a Stone Mountain-area nightclub after finding the nightclub largely responsible for the shooting.
Jul 21, 2017
Jurors Tuesday found a North Florida landlord largely responsible for the broken back a college student suffered in a fall from a rental home’s deck, and awarded more than $1.1 million for her injuries.
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Jul 13, 2017
A rental home’s rickety deck railing caused the fall that fractured a University of North Florida student’s spine, an attorney for the student said Tuesday as trial opened against the property’s owner.
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Jul 11, 2017
In this premises liability case, plaintiff, a University of North Florida student at the time, sustained severe injuries when a deck railing allegedly broke away and caused her to fall while on defendant's property.
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