It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt
“Everyone has a duty to exercise ordinary and reasonable care in light of the surrounding circumstances,” including a group of friends engaging in an athletic activity. White v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson Cnty., 860 S.W.2d 49, 51 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1993). The Tennessee Court of Appeals released a recent opinion remanding a case back to the trial court because the trial court ruled that a cyclist assumed the risk of paceline riding “where it is certainly foreseeable that an accident could occur. . . .” Crisp v. Nelms, No. E2017-01044-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018). In Crisp, five cyclists were
Defense Victory
DRI member Steven C. Huret of Wilson Worley PC in Kingsport, successfully defended an appeal of the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendant. The defendant was the brother of deceased federal postal worker and named as the sole beneficiary on the decedent’s life insurance policy. The decedent’s two children filed a lawsuit to enforce their status as third-party beneficiaries under a Tennessee divorce decree that required the life insurance policy name them as beneficiaries. The defense filed a motion for summary judgment on the basis that the life insurance policy was governed under the Federal Employees’ Group
Wilson Worley Attorneys Obtain Favorable Verdict in Auto Injury Case
Wilson Worley shareholder, Steve Huret, and associate, Katie Steffen, recently obtained a favorable verdict on behalf of their client, who was the defendant in an automobile injury lawsuit. The lawsuit was tried before a jury in one (1) day in Sullivan County Circuit Court. The defendant admitted fault for the car wreck, but she died during the pendency of the lawsuit. The defendant’s daughter, who is the executrix of the defendant’s estate, was substituted as the named defendant. The plaintiff driver alleged that the accident left her with residual neck pain that eventually evolved into numbness and tingling sensations that