May 12, 2020 Premises Liability
James Merritt, Jr. (Atlanta, GA) (Premises Liability) won a hotly-contested Motion for Summary Judgment in favor of Defendant Staples, Inc., after oral argument before Judge Hermann Coolidge in the State Court of Chatham County. The Plaintiff filed a p… Read More
February 19, 2020 Property Damage
Ashley Landrum (N. Palm Beach, FL) (Property Damage) obtained a Defense Verdict in the case of Avishay Rubin v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff alleged that the yellow bollards in the drive-through lanes were improperly placed too close to the edge of… Read More
January 22, 2020 D&O
Matthew Bernstein (Deland, FL) (D&O) obtained a Summary Judgment in favor of a real estate association and its individual Board of Directors, all of whom were named respondents, in a declaratory judgment action filed by the Association’s former Preside… Read More
January 20, 2020 First Party Property
Terrence L. Lavy and William Kratochvil (Ft. Myers, FL) (First Party Property) obtained a defense award in non-binding arbitration in Island Tower v. Citizens. Hurricane Irma made landfall as a Category 3 storm on Marco Island, FL. Island Tower is a si… Read More
July 31, 2019 Commercial Auto
James Merritt, Jr. (Atlanta, GA) (Auto). In this personal injury case, Vernis & Bowling defended one of two different defendant drivers. The objective evidence in this case established that the sole cause of the subject accident was the negligence of t… Read More
June 30, 2019 Commercial Auto
James Merritt, Jr. (Atlanta, GA) (Commercial Auto) After colliding with a Staples 26-foot delivery truck in an office complex parking lot, the Plaintiffs (the driver and passenger in the other vehicle) filed this personal injury case against Staples an… Read More
May 31, 2019 Commercial Auto
James Merritt, Jr. (Atlanta, GA) (Commercial Auto). This claim is a personal injury case arising from an automobile accident in which the Plaintiff’s vehicle was totaled and our client admitted sole negligence in causing the accident. The Plaintiff cla… Read More
November 21, 2019 Automobile Liability
Ken Amos and William Gula (St. Petersburg, FL) (Auto Liability) obtained a Defense Verdict on November 21, 2019. This case involved a sideswipe collision where our Defendant was operating an 18,000 pound box truck and switched lanes into the path of th… Read More
October 24, 2019 Automobile Liability
R. Gregory Lewis (Charlotte, NC) (Automobile Liability) obtained a favorable result in Mecklenburg County in the case of Nelda Daniels, Administrator of the Estate of Max Daniels vs. Susan Flow. Plaintiff filed suit in August 2018 alleging her decedent… Read More
October 23, 2019 Property
Aron Rudman (Hollywood, FL) (Property) obtained a Motion for Summary Judgment before Judge Phillips in Broward County in the case of Roy Melchoir v. Citizens Prop. Ins. Corp. This one-count action stemmed from Plaintiff’s claim that Citizens breached t… Read More