TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 3, 2025

Several wrongful death lawsuits recently have been filed across the state. In Memphis, the mother of Shelby County Jail inmate Ramon McGhee — who died malnourished and covered in bed bugs — has filed a lawsuit against the county and its jail health care provider, the Commercial Appeal reports. In Chattanooga, the son of a man beaten to death in 2018 at the McMinn County Jail has filed a $25 million wrongful death suit. Gavin Cook says that "deliberate indifference" by the county sheriff led to his father Timothy Brian Cook’s death, according to the Times Free Press. And in Knoxville, a court has ruled that a suit can proceed against three police officers in the shooting death of Anthony Thompson. That case alleges the officers failed to provide medical care to Thompson after he was shot by police. The appellate decision reverses a lower court ruling that the officers could not be sued personally, Knox News reports.