MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Alabama’s workers’ compensation regime survived a constitutional challenge by a man who wanted to sue over his daughter’s injuries while working at a Sonic Drive In, with the Alabama Supreme Court ruling legislators had the power to take away the right to sue and replace it with a scheme providing guaranteed compensation.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - An attorney hoping to extend contingency-fee agreements to areas of the law they aren't allowed has received an adverse ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - There was no evidence to support a judge’s $3 million verdict against a manufacturing executive accused of removing a safety gate from a plastics-extruding machine, leading to the death of a worker, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - A TV show-maker that insisted its ghost-hunting series wasn't serious journalism will get a new trial after a first one returned a $3 million verdict against it.
Bryan Taylor sees himself as the only true conservative in the race to be chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Associate Justice Sarah Stewart is the only other Republican candidate for the seat. The primary election is March 5.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - An Alabama hospital can claim immunity under a law protecting healthcare providers against any lawsuit that “arises from or is related to Coronavirus,” even if the claim is that a plaintiff fell on the walkway out of an infusion therapy center.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - An insurance company that paid out $15,000 to settle claims over the death of an Alabama man may have to relitigate the case after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled the lawyer who negotiated the deal may not have been authorized to do so.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court upheld a record $10 million in punitive damages against a hospital where a carpenter who went in for a severed thumb ended up dying after being administered dangerously high doses of intravenous opioid painkillers.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - American businesses should be on the lookout for the aftershocks of one of the U.S. Supreme Court's less publicized rulings issued before summer recess, one that could give new life to venue shopping by the plaintiffs’ bar – a practice a leading tort law expert has coined “litigation tourism.”
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer who said a rival firm got him fired by sharing a controversial Facebook post about the George Floyd killing with his supervisors gets a second chance at suing for tortious interference, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - An Alabama city and its employees are immune from a lawsuit over the death of a man who was found by his police unconscious in a running automobile, fell asleep during an alcohol breath test in jail and was found dead in his cell the next morning from what doctors described as heart trouble.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Pharmaceutical manufacturers can be liable for failing to give doctors proper instructions on how to use their drugs, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled, in answer to a question from a federal appeals court. The state’s high court rejected defense arguments the learned-intermediary rule limited manufacturers’ duty to warning doctors about the potential risks of a medication.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - A couple who lost access to their children after a state worker falsified drug-test results can sue the social worker who relied on those tests to restrict their visitation rights, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - School-board members can be sued over allegations they failed to fire a principal who was later convicted of sexual harassment, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled, finding there was enough evidence for a jury to conclude the board members knew or should have known of the principal’s propensity for misconduct.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Auburn University teachers who organized a field trip to examine Paleozoic rocks can’t be sued over a fatal accident that occurred after an allegedly intoxicated woman swerved across two lanes of traffic and hit a pair of students on the side of the road, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court halted a trial judge’s plan to split trials against opioid manufacturers and distributors into two parts, ruling it would be a waste of judicial resources because jurors would have to hear much of the same evidence twice.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) – A dad’s effort to keep his former son-in-law from claiming attorneys fees from BP oil spill claims didn’t work out.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The owners of an Alabama apartment complex lost their plea to delay a lawsuit over a rape on their premises until after the alleged perpetrator is tried. The Alabama Supreme Court, in a decision that drew a sharp dissent, ruled that a trial court erred by issuing a stay on discovery in the civil case until the criminal case is resolved.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - An Alabama man who was injured after he hot-started a truck and it ran him over, crushing his leg, will get a second chance at a jury trial after the Alabama Supreme Court said a trial judge improperly dismissed his case.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) – The father of a woman who committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault will still be able to argue her alleged assailant is liable for her wrongful death.
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