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Biggest Georgia Decisions Of 2020 By
Rosie Manins Law360 (December 23, 2020, 11:40 AM EST) Georgia s appellate courts disrupted long-held tort precedent this year in a trio of significant rulings on apportionment of liability at trial, including a $1.7 million ruling in a legal malpractice suit against Alston & Bird LLP.
In that case, appellate judges reconfigured damages against Alston & Bird as a single defendant in a case involving an at-fault non-party, putting the firm on the hook for 92% of damages despite being found 32% liable.
This year, appellate courts also ruled that a company can t duck certain employment-related negligence claims even if it admits vicarious liability for an employee s conduct, which affected the apportionment of blame in a wrongful death case to give the plaintiff a new opportunity to recover damages. And Georgia justices also held that the state s apportionment statute can be applied to strict product liability cases
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