Business Tort Cases

Business Torts / Breach of Fiduciary Duty / Fraud
$ 454,000,000 (over $640,000,000 collected, with interest)

Our clients proved a deliberate scheme to depress the value of the Georgia park by failing to install major rides and make appropriate capital investment. We proved that Time Warner took assets belonging to the partnership and used them for its own financial gain.

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Business Torts / Tortuous Interference With Contract / Slander
Cash Settlement

Plaintiffs sought damages for intentional interference with suppliers, slander, expenses and lost profits. Major company cut off new company's suppliers and slandered owners of competitor company. Plaintiffs v. Unnamed Distribution Company, et al., State Court of Muscogee County, Georgia. (2/5/98)

Business Torts / Breach of Fiduciary Duty / Fraud Partial
$ 249,122,685 Payment of Judgment

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Business Tort
$290,330.89 Verdict ($279,180.60 punitive damages) (Verdict reversed on appeal, damages reduced and settled).

Wrongful interference by insurance agent with Plaintiff's insurance contracts, conversion of $5,418, and slander. 7/22/88. Thomas Supply Co., Inc. v. Lanier, Huffman & Robinson, Superior Court of Forsyth County, Georgia

Business Fraud
$522,303.03 Verdict ($360,000 punitive damages) (Reversed on appeal).

Bank fraud - fraudulent misrepresentation of assets of prospective purchaser of a business, resulting in Plaintiff taking unsecured $70,000 personal note from purchaser.

4/14/88. Johnson v. Citizens Bank of Ball Ground, et al., Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia

Business Fraud / Defective irrigation system on farm
$463,000 Verdict.

Located and brought to trial by former dealers for Defendant in Utah and Wisconsin who established that Defendant knew of the defects when Defendant sold the system to Plaintiff. 4/17/85. Henderson v. Royal Coach/Buckner, Inc., Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Business Tort
$970,000 Verdict (Value of Verdict to Plaintiff)

Proved Defendant had accepted a property from co-signer in satisfaction of debt, despite attempts by Defendant to conceal that intent. 1/85. Lipscomb v. Cotton States, Superior Court of DeKalb County, Georgia.

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$17,716,401 Verdict / Auto Product Liability / Ford Explorer Rear Restraint System / Lap Only Seat Belt

12/18/2009 Wheeler v. Ford Motor Company, et al., State Court, Clayton County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs Lynn and Douglas Wheeler won their design defect and failure to warn claims against Ford Motor Company relating to the 2002 Ford Explorer. On Christmas morning 2005, 58 year old Lynn Wheeler was on her way to church with her family. Lynn Wheeler was seated in the rear center seat of her son’s 2002 Ford Explorer, wearing the lap-only seat belt Ford installed for that seating position. Two of Lynn Wheeler’s grandchildren were in child seats on either side of her. As they entered a curve on Noah’s Ark Road, a 2-door Eagle Talon coupe driven by John C. Stanley crossed the centerline and struck the Explorer head-on.

$5,470,000 Verdict/Wrongful Death

10/23/09 Pitts v. A&G Trucking. Inc., et al., State Court of DeKalb County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs, four minor children, recovered for the death of their father, who was killed by a dump truck driver while the decedent was working as a "spotter" or "flag man" on the runway expansion at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. According to eye-witnesses, the driver of the dump truck was talking on her cell phone or CB radio and was given a stop signal by the deceased.

$45,000,000 Settlement | Credit Insurance/Consumer Rights Class Action

10/31/07 Toole v. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company, Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia

Plaintiff Toole represented a class of people who prepaid J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company premiums for credit life and disability insurance policies when they purchased vehicles. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company contractually promised to refund any unearned premium if class members paid off the insured loans before the five-year term had expired, but failed to do so when they paid off the insured loans early.

$105,500,000 Verdict | Defective Automobile

11/23/04 Flax v. Daimler Chrysler Corporation and Louis A. Stockell, Jr., Circuit Court for Davidson County, Tennessee

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