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Ronald M. Fields is an associate in the Atlanta, Georgia, focuses on representing employers in workplace law matters before courts and administrative agencies,and providing preventive advice and counseling. ....
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 produ ....