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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Reddick v. Murray - 9/19/2001
Mailed July 16, 2001
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...
Carlen v. Jackson - 9/19/2001
The defendant asserted a comparative fault defense to a tort claim against him arising from his operation of a truck. He attributed fault to General Motors Corporation and Carlen Motors Inc. the manufacturer and prospective seller,...
State v. Morrow - 9/18/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 27, 2001
The defendant entered a best-interest guilty plea in the Cocke County Criminal Court to one count of especially aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated rape, and one count of criminal...
Bell v. Nolan - 9/14/2001
The parents of a woman who died after being assaulted by her husband on the premises of an American Legion post filed a wrongful death claim, which named the husband and the American Legion post as defendants. The parents alleged that...
Mason v. Old Time Pottery - 9/13/2001
Mailed - June 26, 2001
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...
Cutler-Hammer v. Crabtree - 9/7/2001
We granted review in this cause to determine whether the trial court erred in finding Timothy L. Crabtree permanently and totally disabled as a result of mental and physical injuries sustained while working for Cutler-Hammer. Crabtree...
Lee v. T.I.G. Insurance - 9/6/2001
Mailed - July 31, 2001
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...
Durbin v. Sumner County Regional Health Systems - 9/6/2001
The appellants sued the appellees for claims connected with the death of the appellants' twin fetuses. The jury found in favor of the appellees, and, in addition, after the jury verdict, the trial court granted appellee Dr. Caldwell's...
Sweatt v. Compton - 9/6/2001
ASSIGNED ON BRIEFS MAY 15, 2001
This appeal arises from a specialist physician's recommendation that the Appellant, an inmate, undergo nasal surgery. The Utilization Review Committee of the Tennessee Department of Correction...
United States Pipe & Foundry Company v. Camp - 9/4/2001
Mailed - May 2, 2001
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...
Hancock v. Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority - 8/31/2001
We granted appeal to determine 1) whether filial consortium losses are recoverable in wrongful death actions; and 2) whether the medical malpractice statute of repose, Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-26-116, bars the plaintiffs' amendment to the...
Anderson v. Howser - 8/30/2001
This is a medical malpractice case. The defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, supported by an affidavit from the defendant physician. The plaintiffs filed the opposing affidavit of an expert physician. When the defendants...
Lewis v. Brooks - 8/29/2001
This appeal involves a claim of medical malpractice. The plaintiff's minor child suffered brain damage during delivery. The only remaining defendants, Dr. Moore and Dr. Lawrence, moved for summary judgment, which the trial court...
State v. Blackstock - 8/27/2001
The defendant, Charles R. Blackstock, pled guilty to especially aggravated kidnapping and two counts of rape of a child. See Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-13-305, 39-13-522. The trial court imposed 25-year sentences on each offense. The...
Smith v. Johnson - 8/27/2001
This is a wrongful death case. A car crossed the center line and collided with a dump truck, causing the dump truck to strike and kill three pedestrians, including the plaintiff's wife and son. The plaintiff sued the driver of the car,...
Ryder Driver Leasing - 8/27/2001
Mailed - December 12, 2001
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...
State v. Kossow - 8/23/2001
Assigned on Briefs June 20, 2001
Defendant entered pleas of guilty to the rape of a child in Counts 1, 6, and 7 of the indictment and in Count 3, a plea of guilty to aggravated sexual battery. At the conclusion of a sentencing...
Scales v. City of Oak Ridge - 8/23/2001
This workers' compensation case presents several questions involving the calculation of an employee's benefits award and its apportionment between her employer and the Second Injury Fund, including a question involving the social...
Martin v. Sizemore - 8/22/2001
This appeal involves a disciplinary proceeding against a licensed architect. Following a lengthy hearing, the Tennessee Board of Examiners for Architects and Engineers concluded that the architect had engaged in misconduct in the...
Fawcett v. Adreon - 8/21/2001
This is a wrongful death case involving a police chase. A teenage passenger in a car was killed in an accident after a police officer chased the vehicle into a construction zone. The teenager's father sued the driver of the car and the...
Roberts v. Bicknell - 8/16/2001
In this medical malpractice case, patient and wife sued physicians and their professional association for damages resulting from defendants' negligence, deviation from applicable standard of care, and lack of informed consent. The...
Poper v. Rollins - 8/15/2001
This is an uninsured motorist insurance case. The plaintiff's wife died as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident involving multiple vehicles. The husband sued several defendants for wrongful death. He settled out of...
Ki v. State - 8/13/2001
This appeal arises from a tragic fire on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Martin, in which Jong-Do Ki lost his life. Jong-Do Ki's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Woo-Jun Ki, filed suit against the state of Tennessee. The Claims...
Wilson v. Patterson - 8/10/2001
This is a medical malpractice case. Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued defendant physician for injuries allegedly caused to Wife by the physician's negligence. Physician moved for summary judgment supported by his affidavit that he...
Oakley v. Oakley - 8/10/2001
This appeal arises from a divorce action. Husband and Wife divorced after 22 years of marriage. Both had received property by bequest during the marriage. Husband had received stocks and securities, real property, and Company, which he...
Roberts v. Davis - 8/7/2001
On May 17, 1995, Plaintiff Janice Roberts and her husband Max Nichols were involved in an automobile accident with the Defendant Food Lion, Inc. and their driver Stevie D. Davis. The accident occurred on Interstate 24. Plaintiff...
Conger v. Gowder - 3/29/2001
In this medical malpractice case arising out of surgery, the trial court granted the defendant summary judgment on the plaintiff's claims of surgical negligence and lack of informed consent. The plaintiff appeals, arguing (1) that...
Winstead v. Claiborne County Hospital and Nursing Home - 3/27/2001
In this wrongful death action, the Trial Court held that defendant's nurses met the standard of care required of them in the treatment and care of the deceased, and dismissed the case. On appeal, we reverse and enter Judgment for...
Roth v. Roth - 3/20/2001
This appeal involves the dissolution of a sixteen-year marriage. The wife filed suit in the Circuit Court for Sumner County seeking a divorce and custody of the parties' three children. The husband did not contest the divorce but...
Green v. Sacks - 3/15/2001
This appeal involves a dispute between a patient and her physician regarding the surgical insertion of an Angelchik prosthesis to control a chronic gastric reflux condition. Almost five years after her surgery, the patient filed suit...
Methodist Hospital Of Dyersburg - 3/15/2001
Mailed January 10, 2001
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...
Hall v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - 3/13/2001
Mailed - February 8, 2001
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...
Ellington v. Maddox - 3/12/2001
Natural father filed a petition to obtain custody of his son against the maternal grandmother and her husband, the child's custodians by previous court order. After an evidentiary hearing, the juvenile court denied father's petition...
Frye v. Blue Ridge Neuroscience Center - 3/12/2001
Plaintiff sued Defendants on November 25, 1998, alleging medical malpractice. Summonses were issued but never served on Defendants or returned to the court. Process was never reissued on the first Complaint. A voluntary non-suit was...
Smith v. Haley - 3/2/2001
Freddie Dean Smith and Anita Ann Smith ("Plaintiffs") filed a medical malpractice action against Tony O. Haley, M.D. ("Defendant"). Defendant moved for summary judgment with his affidavit filed in support thereof. The motion was...
Carter v. Kenneth O. Lester Co. - 3/2/2001
Mailed - January 30, 2001
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...
Mackie v. Young Sales Corporation - 3/1/2001
As amended August 23, 2001
We granted review in this workers' compensation case to determine whether the trial court erred in awarding temporary total benefits and death benefits based on the maximum weekly wage where the...
State v. Stem - 12/29/2000
The appellant, Amelia Kay Stem, entered a plea of nolo contendere in the Lawrence County Circuit Court to one count of second degree murder. The trial court sentenced the appellant to twenty-five years incarceration in the Tennessee...
Seibers v. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. - 12/21/2000
This case involves a dispute between a lawyer and his former client over a fee in a personal injury case. The client discharged the lawyer before the case was concluded and agreed to give the lawyer a lien on the potential recovery for...
Moss v. Vanderbilt University Medical Center - 12/21/2000
It is difficult, if not impossible, to glean from the record before this Court, what the pro se plaintiff is seeking and upon what factual basis he predicates the claim. The best hope is to simply describe seriatim the documents...
Maestas v. Sofamor Danek Group - 12/21/2000
The plaintiffs alleged that defendants' products, surgically implanted in their backs, were defective. The trial court granted summary judgment for defendants on grounds that the statute of limitations had expired. The plaintiffs...
Stewart v. State - 12/20/2000
In this case, we determine whether the Tennessee Claims Commission properly asserted jurisdiction pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated sections 9-8-307(a)(1)(E) and -307(a)(1)(F) for the alleged negligence of a state highway patrol...
State v. Brown - 12/15/2000
The Defendant, Nicholas Roberts Brown, pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape. Pursuant to his plea agreement, he received a sentence of one year, with the manner of service of the sentence to be determined by the trial court....
Potter v. Schlegel Finishing - 12/12/2000
Mailed - November 9, 2000
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...
State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. v. Hurley - 12/7/2000
Mailed August 31, 2000
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...
Ferrell v. APAC-Tennessee - 12/1/2000
Mailed - October 30, 2000
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6-225 (e)(3) for hearing and reporting findings of...
Trau-Med Of America - 11/29/2000
Plaintiff medical clinic filed a complaint against an insurance company and several of its employees alleging, inter alia, that the defendants tortiously interfered with their business relationship, that the attorneys supplied by the...
Givens v. Mullikin - 11/28/2000
Plaintiff filed this action against defendant in an underlying personal injury suit and the defendant's liability insurance carrier, alleging that the defendants are vicariously liable for the actions of the attorneys the insurance...
American Indemnity Co. v. Foy Trailer Rentals - 11/28/2000
American Indemnity Company sought a declaratory judgment that its commercial general liability (CGL) policy did not cover claims made by Ms. Johnson against the Appellants in her federal court complaint and that it did not have a duty...
White v. Revco Discount Drug Centers - 11/22/2000
We granted permission to appeal in this case to address whether a private employer may be held liable for the negligent actions of an off- duty police officer who was hired by the employer for private security purposes. In the circuit...
Martino v. Dyer - 11/22/2000
The trial court granted the motion of an attorney seeking collection of a pro rata share of his fee from a hospital lien against his client's settlement. The effect of the trial court's order is to require the hospital to pay fees to...
McGowan v. Gibson - 11/17/2000
Plaintiff's complaint alleges that defendants, employees of the Tennessee Department of Corrections at Brushy Mountain Prison, assaulted plaintiff, and that plaintiff was charged with disciplinary infractions in retaliation for his...
Mahan v. Mahan - 11/15/2000
In this divorce case, the husband appeals the award of custody of the children to the wife, the admission of certain evidence at trial, and the redistribution of marital property on a post-judgment motion following his bankruptcy. We...
Becton v. Grisham Corp. - 11/14/2000
Mailed August 2, 2000;
This is an appeal by James E. Becton of a decision by the trial court that Becton did not show by a preponderance of the evidence that he had sustained an injury by accident arising out of and in the scope...
Rentenbach Constructors - 11/13/2000
This appeal from the Jefferson County Chancery Court concerns whether the Chancery Court erred in determining that Appellant, Rentenbach Constructors, Incorporated is obligated to indemnify Appellees, Mathews Corporation and Ball...
Harbison v. Brakebill Nursing Home - 11/9/2000
FILED: NOVEMBER 9, 2000
JUDGMENT ORDER
This case is before the Court upon motion for review filed by the plaintiff-appellant, Jerry Harbison, pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6- 225(e)(5)(B), the entire record, including...
Andrews v. Salter - 11/9/2000
The defendant's automobile ran into the rear of the plaintiff's car. After the collision, the plaintiff learned that she had sustained a ruptured disk and commenced the underlying action, seeking compensation for both personal injury...
Hamblen v. Davidson - 11/8/2000
This appeal arises from a personal injury suit in which Plaintiff alleged that her ex-husband had negligently infected her with the virus which causes genital herpes. The trial court granted Defendant's motion for summary judgment,...
Johnson v. Centex Forcum Lannom - 11/7/2000
This appeal arises from an injury by Worker who fell through a hole in the roof while working on a construction site. Worker brought suit against the Owner, the General Contractor and Builder, who through its construction of precast...
Buckner v. Hassell - 10/30/2000
Ronald L. Buckner was diagnosed with a rare form of melanoma which ultimately resulted in his death. His wife, Cheryl N. Buckner, brought this medical malpractice action against her husband's family physician, Dr. David F. Hassell. The...
Dudley v. Dudley - 9/28/2000
This case involves an appeal from the trial court's property distribution decision in a divorce which ended a nine year marriage. Bobby G. Dudley, II ("Husband") appeals the award of the marital residence and its contents to Sandra...
Moore v. Johnson - 9/26/2000
This is a personal injury action arising out of an automobile accident. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, finding that the defendant and an unidentified driver were equally at fault in causing the accident. The...
Frazier v. East Tennessee Baptist Hospital - 9/26/2000
In this medical malpractice case brought by Clara Frazier, as Administratrix of the Estate of Josie Mae Blalock Pickens against East Tennessee Baptist Hospital, Inc., and Mark W. Jackson, M.D., the Trial Court sustained the motion of...
State v. Hancock - 9/21/2000
The defendant, Billy Hancock, pled guilty in Shelby County Criminal Court to vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, aggravated child endangerment, three (3) counts of child endangerment, and reckless driving. The trial court sentenced...
Curtis v. Nash - 9/20/2000
This appeal arises in the Knox County Circuit Court from a grant of a motion for summary judgment. Edward F. Curtis appeals the grant of summary judgment. We affirm the judgment of the Trial Court and remand for such further...
Webb v. Shoe City - 9/20/2000
Mailed May 17, 2000
This case involves a back injury sustained in 1995 by Ernestyne M. Webb, an employee of Shoe City, Incorporated. The employee brought suit against the employer and its insurer, The Traveler's Insurance...
Mills v. Wong - 9/15/2000
This appeal presents a dispute over proper venue arising out of a medical malpractice suit against multiple defendants. The Shelby County Circuit Court denied the Defendant's motion to dismiss for improper venue. The case is before...
Planned Parenthood of Middle Tennessee v. Sundquist - 9/15/2000
As amended March 26, 2001
This is an appeal from the Circuit Court for Davidson County, which applied an undue burden standard and struck down as unconstitutional the provisions of Tennessee's criminal abortion statutes requiring...
Starnes v. State - 9/14/2000
The petitioner appeals from a denial of post-conviction relief, claiming his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance. We conclude the record is insufficient for proper appellate review. Thus, we remand to the trial court for an...
Stone v. Bellsouth Telecommunications - 9/14/2000
Plaintiff nonsuited complaint for personal injuries approximately four years after suit was filed without having taken any action to prosecute the suit. Another complaint was filed within one year of the non-suit pursuant to T.C.A. §...
Eller v. Loram Maintenance of Way - 9/12/2000
Mailed - August 3, 2000
This workers' compensation appeal from the Cumberland County Circuit Court has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. §...
Freeman v. Shannon - 9/7/2000
This is a negligence suit under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act. The plaintiff is a prisoner who was injured when another car struck the patrol car in which he was being transported. The plaintiff sued the county sheriff...
Lewis v. Saturn Corp. - 9/6/2000
Appeal from the Chancery Court for Davidson County Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr., Chancellor
Mailed May 4, 2000
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme...
Johnson v. Maury Regional Hospital - 9/6/2000
Mailed - May 24, 2000
The employer, Maury County Regional Hospital contends the trial judge erred in concluding the employee's back injury arose out of and occurred in the course of employment and that the award of permanent...
Carter v. Wal-Mart Stores - 9/1/2000
Mailed
July 26, 2000
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...
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