Tennessee Personal Injury Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Tennessee or Court of Appeals of Tennessee where the terms personal injury or related terms have been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily personal injury and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions personal injury related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Robinson v. LeCorps - 9/5/2002
Background
The plaintiff, Jackie Robinson, is an inmate housed in Riverbend Maximum Security Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. On March 11, 1994, Robinson injured his left ankle and was diagnosed with an ankle sprain by a...
Faulks v. Crowder - 9/5/2002
Background
These two medical malpractice lawsuits assert a claim which accrued on or before November 5, 1996, the day Plaintiffs' five day old son died after being diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. On October 31,...
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Jefferson - 9/5/2002
I.
David A. Jefferson obtained a doctorate in clinical psychology and acquired a license to practice psychology in Tennessee in 1977. He and his family moved to Sumner County where he established a flourishing private practice...
Smith v. Smith - 8/28/2002
Robert Maxwell Smith and Eileen Ann Smith married in August 1986. Dr. Smith was fifty-one and Ms. Smith was thirty-eight at the time of the marriage. Prior to the marriage, Ms. Smith worked as a nurse earning $26,000 a year. Dr....
Estate of Francis v. Francis - 8/28/2002
This is the second time this case has been before this court. Our opinion filed June 18, 2001, contains the background relevant to this appeal:
This appeal involves a dispute between a widow and her stepson regarding the...
Chapman v. Kelley - 8/28/2002
BACKGROUND
This case arises out of an arrest warrant issued for the Plaintiff, Charles Chapman, for failure to appear in court on charges of felony theft and burglary of a vehicle. The warrant was issued as a result of a capias...
State v. Henley - 8/27/2002
Seeking to have Daniel Henley declared a motor vehicle habitual offender (MVHO), the state filed a petition alleging that, within a qualifying time period, Henley had accumulated two convictions of driving under the influence and one...
P.E.K. v. J.M. - 8/15/2002
This case, before this Court for the second time, involves an interstate battle between never-married parents over custody of a minor daughter. The trial court found that under the provisions of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction...
Forsythe v. Gibbs - 8/15/2002
A laborer injured on the job during horseplay initiated by his employer claimed that he was entitled to damages in tort for his employer's actions. The trial court dismissed the suit, ruling that the plaintiff was bound by the...
Eldridge v. Eldridge - 8/8/2002
Huntington Eldridge, Jr. (Husband) and Deborah Marie West Eldridge (Wife) were married on June 11, 1983. At the time of the marriage, Wife owned a business in Chicago, Illinois. Husband worked for Ducks Unlimited and owned a...
Johnson v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville - 8/7/2002
I. Background
In 1988, Paul E. Johnson ("Johnson"/ "the developer"), a Nashville real estate developer, sought sewer access for a parcel of land that was eventually developed as the Bradford Hills and Holt Woods subdivisions....
Lewis v. Campbell - 8/7/2002
On September 22, 1998, Plaintiff/Appellant Vickie Lewis ("Lewis") made her first visit to the office of Defendant/Appellee Otis Campbell, M.D. ("Dr. Campbell"), for medical treatment. From the beginning, Lewis was treated by...
Steele v. Berkman - 8/7/2002
I. Facts and Procedural History
The Appellee, William Howell Steele ("Mr. Steele"), had experienced numbness in his right arm for approximately eight months when he sought medical attention from his local physician, Barry...
State v. Chaney - 7/31/2002
In August 2001, the Defendant, Derrick S. Chaney, pleaded guilty to first offense DUI and to driving with a suspended, cancelled, or revoked license. For the DUI conviction, the trial court sentenced the Defendant to eleven months...
Jones v. Idles - 7/30/2002
Background
The facts as pertinent to this Tenn. R. App. P. 9 interlocutory appeal are undisputed. Plaintiff filed a lawsuit seeking damages resulting from an automobile accident which occurred in Anderson County on March 31,...
Laurenzi v. City of Memphis - 7/29/2002
Plaintiff/Appellee Joseph W. Laurenzi ("Laurenzi") joined the Memphis Police Department ("Department") as an officer in 1967. The Department had established an On-the-Job Injury Program ("OJI") under which Department employees are...
Frayser v. Dentsply International - 6/28/2002
On January 21, 1999, Plaintiff filed a workers' compensation complaint alleging that in December 1993 he injured his back in the course of employment with Defendant/Appellee. After back surgery in January 1994, Plaintiff returned to...
Gunter v. U.C.H.R.A. - 6/27/2002
The plaintiff in the underlying action, James E. Gunter was involved in an automobile accident on December 15, 1997, when his car was struck by the defendant/appellee, Kristy A. Poore. At the time of the accident, Ms. Poore was...
Nichols v. Transcor America - 6/25/2002
I. An Alleged Rape and a Civil Suit
On October 25, 1997, Cheryl Nichols was being moved from a Florida jail to a Texas prison. Van transportation was provided by TransCor America, Inc., a Tennessee corporation that is a...
Bryant v. Imperial Manor Convalescent Center - 6/25/2002
The employee or claimant, Josephine Bryant, injured her back at work. When the employer, Imperial Manor, denied her claim for workers' compensation benefits, she initiated this civil action. Following a trial on the merits, the trial...
Walker v. White - 6/20/2002
The litigation underlying this interlocutory appeal arises from allegations made by defendant Ricky White (White) that the plaintiffs Jerry Walker and wife, Opal Walker (the Walkers) had filed for bankruptcy, hidden assets and...
Stovall v. Clarke - 6/20/2002
I.
The plaintiff, Carolyn Stovall, alleged that she is the surviving widow of Gerald D. Stovall who died of coronary heart disease which the defendant physicians failed to diagnose and treat.
His primary physician was Dr....
McGee v. Best - 6/18/2002
On January 4, 1999, the plaintiff, Patrick McGee (hereinafter "McGee"), filed a "Complaint and Application for Extraordinary Relief" in the Chancery Court for Davidson County, Tennessee against the defendants, Timothy Best...
Kelley v. Cage - 6/18/2002
Lillie Kelley had an acute myocardial infarction on April 18, 1999. She was hospitalized and treated by Dr. William Fleet, a cardiologist employed by Mid-State Cardiology Associates, P. C. She was discharged after four days. On June...
Hannah v. Yellow Freight System - 6/17/2002
James Hannah, an employee of Yellow Freight System, Inc., the employer, first suffered a compensable back injury on June 26, 1996, while lifting a trailer door. He suffered a herniated disk, which was surgically repaired, and for...
Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company v. Ford Motor Company - 6/17/2002
This is a consolidated appeal of three products liability cases. Plaintiff/Appellant Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company ("Tennessee Farmers") provided automobile insurance to the three insureds involved in these cases: Dwight...
Sanders v. Traver - 6/12/2002
In this wrongful death action filed pursuant to the Governmental Tort Liability Act against Blount Memorial Hospital, Incorporated, the Trial Court dismissed the action, holding that it was not filed within twelve months, as required...
Osborne v. State Industries - 6/12/2002
At the time of trial held on April 30, 2001, Mr. Eugene Ray Osborne, was 48 years old. He had a highschool education. Mr. Osborne was an industrial painter by trade and had worked for the defendant, State Industries, Inc., for 16...
Hamilton v. Stardust Theatre - 6/11/2002
I. The Creation and Infringement of a Trademark
In 1993, country music singer/songwriter George Hamilton, V came up with the expression "Viva NashVegas," and began using it as a signature part of his act, shouting it from the...
Burroughs v. Magee - 6/11/2002
This is a personal injury and wrongful death lawsuit. On July 31, 1997 Plaintiff/Appellant Judy Burroughs ("Burroughs") and her husband, decedent Harold Burroughs, were involved in an automobile accident with a second vehicle driven...
Age v. HCA Health Svcs. of Tn. - 6/7/2002
I.
The plaintiff alleged that employees of the defendant Hospital fractured her right arm while moving her to a CT table following mitral valve surgery.
She alleges, as grounds for the recovery of damages, (1) a battery;...
Mazor v. Isaacman - 6/6/2002
This is a dental malpractice case. Plaintiff/appellant Natalya Mazor ("Mazor") visited the defendant/appellee dentist, Kenneth Isaacman, D.D.S. ("Dr. Isaacman"), in August 1997 to have a routine root canal performed on her upper...
Platterburg v. Talley - 6/5/2002
This is an appeal from a court ordered involuntary dismissal of plaintiff's case because plaintiff had failed to pay the legal costs and attorney's fees incurred by the defendants in the prosecution of their Motions to Dismiss for...
Health Cost Controls - 6/3/2002
This is an insurance case on remand from the Tennessee Supreme Court. In March 1997, Defendant/Appellant Ronald Gifford ("Gifford") was injured in an automobile accident while riding as a passenger in a car driven by his brother and...
Leab v. S & H Mining Co. - 6/3/2002
I. Facts and Procedural History
The employee, Roy L. Leab, was 53 years old at the time of trial. He had a limited education, having left school during the eighth grade, and his work history consisted entirely of manual labor....
Mitchell v. Johnson - 3/27/2002
This case arises out of a collision on a public road between an automobile driven by the defendant, Brandyn D. Johnson, and a go-cart operated by Clayton Mitchell ("the minor") - the seven-year old child of the plaintiffs Ruth Ann...
Richards v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. - 3/26/2002
Summary of Proof
The employee, Ralph D. Richards, age 43, was employed by B.F. Goodrich for over twenty years and at the time of the alleged injury worked in the maintenance department. Richards testified that sometime in the...
Long v. HCA Health Services of Tennessee - 3/26/2002
Facts and Procedural History
On February 5, 1998, Minnie Lorena Long (Ms. Long), an elderly lady, was transferred from Williams Medical Center to HCA Health Services of Tennessee d/b/a Southern Hills Medical Center (Southern...
Trau-Med of America - 3/25/2002
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
This case comes before us pursuant to a Rule of Civil Procedure 12.02(6) motion to dismiss and requires us to review the trial court's dismissal of two claims: tortious interference with a business...
Huddleston v. O'Deneal - 3/19/2002
On May 16, 2000, plaintiff, Jerry Huddleston, filed a complaint for legal malpractice in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Tennessee against the defendant, Ramsdale O'Deneal, a licensed attorney practicing in the State of...
Bonds v. Emerson - 3/19/2002
This cases arises out of an automobile accident which occurred on February 16, 1997, on Highway 70 West near the City of Brownsville. That morning, Melvin Bonds ("Mr. Bonds"), an investigator with the Haywood County Sheriff's...
State v. Ammons - 3/18/2002
On September 8, 1993, the defendant, Larry Ammons, was convicted of three counts of aggravated burglary, a Class C felony, under Docket No. 5889. The court imposed three concurrent sentences of three years each. On April 10, 1995,...
Petty v. Daimler/Chrysler Corp. - 3/13/2002
Mr. Petty purchased a new 1998 Plymouth Grand Voyager mini-van in January of 1998. In May of 1998, he filed suit against the manufacturer, DaimlerChrysler, in Shelby County Chancery Court, alleging that the specific form of tempered...
Frye v. Blue Ridge Neuroscience Center - 3/11/2002
We granted this appeal to determine whether process issued upon a second complaint satisfies Rule 3 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure when the plaintiff failed to serve process on the original complaint. After careful...
Bain v. Simpson - 3/7/2002
This appeal involves a trial court's granting of a motion for remittitur following a jury's verdict of $19,790.00 in favor of the plaintiff. The suit arose from an automobile accident caused by defendant in which plaintiff's back was...
Collins v. Lear Seating Corp. - 3/7/2002
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated § 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme Court of...
Howe v. Jones Plastic and Engineering Company - 3/6/2002
Mailed December 7, 2001
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel in accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated § 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme...
Kline v. Eyrich - 3/1/2002
The primary issue in this case is whether a trial court may use the common fund doctrine in a wrongful death action to spread attorneys' fees equitably among the surviving beneficiaries of the action. The trial court consolidated two...
Pitt v. Tyree Organization Limited - 2/28/2002
This is a declaratory judgment action involving the interpretation and application of an indemnification provision contained in a construction contract. Defendant, Doug Suess d/b/a Doug Suess Concrete (hereinafter "Suess"), appeals...
Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Freeman - 2/28/2002
Travelers Indemnity Company [Travelers] filed a complaint for a declaratory judgment respecting its liability to pay UM coverage for the minor child of its policyholder who was divorced from the child's mother, with joint custody...
Perry v. Winn-Dixie Stores - 2/28/2002
This lawsuit was filed by Robert Perry ("Plaintiff") against Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. ("Defendant"). The Trial Court excluded the testimony of Plaintiff's treating physician, presented by deposition at trial, pertaining to expenses for...
Hodges v. State - 2/26/2002
This is an appeal of a decision of the Tennessee Claims Commission. Claimant's complaint seeks damages for her husband's death by suicide after he had been treated by a state employed psychologist. Claimant alleges that the...
Roberts v. Sanders - 2/22/2002
This appeal involves the right of a lawyer to collect a fee from the entire proceeds of a $33,000 settlement between his elderly client and the teenage driver who struck her vehicle from the rear. Upon being notified of the pending...
Melton v. Melton - 2/22/2002
This appeal from the Chancery Court of Lewis County questions whether the Trial Court erred in dividing the marital estate, thereby awarding Ms. Melton a disproportionate share. Mr. Melton further appeals the Trial Court's award of...
Bohanon v. Jones Bros. - 2/22/2002
This appeal involves a property damage claim arising from blasting activities incident to the construction of improvements to State Highway 52 in Macon County. Two neighboring property owners filed suit against the contractor...
Utley v. Bridgestone/Firestone - 2/20/2002
Mailed - January 16, 2002
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-225(e) for hearing and reporting of...
Utely v. Bridgestone/Firestone - 2/20/2002
Mailed - January 16, 2002
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-225(e) for hearing and reporting of...
Truett v. Bowman - 2/15/2002
This is a medical malpractice case. The plaintiff's decedent allegedly was improperly intubated in preparation for hip replacement surgery. The plaintiff sued the orthopedic surgeon, the nurse anesthetist, and two anesthesiologists...
Turney v. Turney - 2/15/2002
This appeal from a divorce decree raises issues concerning the classification and distribution of the parties' property, and the determination of income for the purposes of setting child support. We modify the distribution of property...
Henry v. Obstetrics and Gynecology Consultants - 2/8/2002
Mary Henry and Travis Henry sue Obstetrics and Gynecology Consultants, P.C., and Jeffrey R. Dell, M.D., for medical malpractice which they contend resulted in the death of their daughter. The Trial Court excluded the testimony of the...
Ramsey v. City of Dyersburg - 2/7/2002
Mailed December 7, 2001
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and...
Mercer v. HCA Health Services of Tennessee - 2/7/2002
A widow claimed that her husband's suicide was caused by the negligence of the defendant hospital and the defendant psychiatrist in releasing him prematurely from involuntary commitment. The trial court granted summary judgment to the...
Taylor v. Beard - 2/6/2002
This case involves the application of the statute of limitations to personal injury claims. The plaintiffs are the parents of a minor child who was injured in an automobile accident with the defendant in October 1995. The plaintiffs...
Mays v. Mays - 2/5/2002
This is a divorce and child custody case. Husband sued for divorce, and Wife countersued. Husband dismissed his complaint on the day of trial. Wife was granted the divorce and custody of the parties' minor child. On appeal, Husband...
Walker v. State - 2/5/2002
This is a medical malpractice action before the Tennessee Claims Commission. The Commission found that the evidence presented by the plaintiff was insufficient to establish that the defendant's employees failed to meet the required...
Stubblefield v. Stubblefield - 2/1/2002
The issues raised on appeal involve the division of the marital estate only. On appeal, the husband insists the Trial Court erred in awarding the wife part of his retirement, and requiring him to pay health insurance premiums until...
Policeman's Benefit Association of Nashville v. Nautilus Insurance Company - 2/1/2002
Plaintiff filed this declaratory judgment action against its liability insurance carrier to determine the carrier's duty to defend plaintiff in a federal lawsuit and its obligation to provide indemnity coverage. The trial court granted...
Lane v. Olsten Staffing Services - 1/31/2002
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann.§ 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme Court of findings...
Sutton v. Barnes - 1/30/2002
The plaintiffs, Cocke County homeowners, brought this action seeking compensation for damage caused to their home by blasting activity on their neighbors' property. In response to interrogatories, the company that did the blasting...
Henley v. Russell Dale Amacher - 1/28/2002
This appeal involves an early morning, drunken joyride by four teenagers that ended when their sport utility vehicle overturned. One of the passengers who was injured when he was thrown from the vehicle sued the driver and his father...
Frazier v. East Tennessee Baptist Hospital - 9/28/2001
On May 8, 1998, plaintiff, in her capacity as estate administrator, brought this medical malpractice claim against defendant East Tennessee Baptist Hospital and Mark W. Jackson, M.D., in Knox County Circuit Court. On August 7, 1998,...
Estate of Kirk v. Lowe - 9/28/2001
The Plaintiffs in this case sued "John Doe," an unknown driver, for injuries and damages resulting from the death of Plaintiffs' decedent. Process was served on decedent's uninsured motorist insurance carrier pursuant to Tennessee's...
Grace v. Mountain States Health Alliance - 9/25/2001
In this medical malpractice suit the Trial Court granted a summary judgment in favor of Mountain States Health Alliance, d/b/a/ Johnson City Medical Center Hospital and five Doctors. The Trial Court overruled the Plaintiffs' motion to...
Robinson v. Lecorps - 9/25/2001
This case arises from a medical malpractice suit in which defendant's motion to dismiss was granted pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-26-115 after plaintiff's sole expert was excluded from testifying because his testimony was based on a...
Maloney v. Morristown Clinic Corp. - 9/19/2001
This is a wrongful death action based upon alleged medical malpractice. The plaintiffs are the parents of Emily LeAnn Maloney, who died six days after her birth. The trial court dismissed the plaintiffs' claims "for consortium and...
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