Articles

All Content


4,435 Posts found
Previous • Page 93 of 444 • Next
Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

An employee was exposed to a chemical in the course of his employment. He alleged that he developed a disabling pulmonary condition as a result of the exposure. His employer denied that the condition was caused by the exposure. The trial court found for the employee and awarded permanent partial disability and other benefits. The employer has appealed, contending that the evidence preponderates against the finding of causation.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

In December 2011, Chad Seigmund (“Employee”) was involved in a motor vehicle accident in the course of his employment. His employer, Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC (“Employer”) provided medical treatment but denied that Employee sustained permanent impairment or disability. Following a trial, the trial court found that Employee had sustained permanent disability and awarded Employee 16.5% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole. Employer has appealed, contending that the evidence preponderates against the permanent disability finding.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

Vicki Payne, an employee of United Parcel Service, Inc. (“UPS”), sustained a compensable injury to her lower back while delivering packages in the course of her employment. After some time, she was able to return to work for UPS. The trial court awarded permanent disability benefits based on the impairment rating provided by the employee’s evaluating physician. Her employer has appealed, contending that the trial court should have adopted the impairment rating assigned by the treating physician.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

A hearing panel of the Board of Professional Responsibility determined that an attorney failed to act diligently in his representation of a client and suspended the attorney from the practice of law for forty-five days. The trial court affirmed the suspension. After careful consideration, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

This appeal arises from the termination of a father’s parental rights. Shortly after Matthew J.’s birth, his father pled guilty to twenty counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of aggravated statutory rape. The Department of Children’s Services ultimately filed a petition for the termination of parental rights against Matthew’s parents. His mother surrendered her parental rights, and the matter proceeded to trial against the father only. At the conclusion of the trial, the juvenile court also terminated the father’s parental rights.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

In this action for conversion of personal property, Plaintiff contends the defendant, the Nashville Rescue Mission, is liable for throwing away his personal possessions that he stored in a locker at the Mission. Relying on the terms and conditions of a written “Locker Use Guidelines and Agreement,” the Mission insists it is not liable because it disposed of the property as authorized by Plaintiff. The Mission submitted interrogatories and requests for admissions to which Plaintiff objected generally.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

Dennis Turner was injured while playing softball in a charity tournament at Marvin Rich Field in Bean Station. He sued the City of Bean Station, among other defendants, alleging that the City negligently failed to properly maintain the pitcher’s mound, pitcher’s rubber, and the field as a whole, resulting in his injury.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

This is a parental termination case. It focuses on the three children of a married couple, D.G.B. (Mother) and D.C.B. (Father), and Mother’s child (V.L.J.) from an earlier relationship. The four children came into the custody of the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) in 2009. Nearly four years later, DCS filed a petition to terminate the rights of the parents. Following a trial, the court granted the petition based upon its finding (1) that multiple grounds for termination exist and (2) that termination is in the best interest of the children.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

The State of Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (“DCS”) filed a petition seeking to terminate the parental rights of Lori D.F.P. (“Mother”) to the minor child Bryce F. (“the Child”). After a trial the Juvenile Court for Knox County (“the Juvenile Court”) terminated Mother’s parental rights to the Child after finding and holding, inter alia, that grounds had been proven by clear and convincing evidence to terminate Mother’s parental rights for abandonment by willful failure to pay child support pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1- 113(g)(1) and Tenn. Code Ann.

Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 30, 2014

The Defendant, Angel Geovanna Hurtado, was convicted by a Davidson County jury of three counts of aggravated child abuse, one count of reckless aggravated assault as a lesser- included offense of aggravated child abuse, and one count of aggravated child neglect. The trial court imposed an effective sentence of twenty-five years for her convictions.


Previous • Page 93 of 444 • Next