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    Chloe McGuire Joins Huie as Associate Attorney

    We are pleased to welcome Chloe McGuire to Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP as an associate attorney. “Chloe is a reliable and compassionate client advocate who goes the extra mile,” said John Herndon, Managing Partner. “Her ability to exceed expectations and provide innovative and thorough solutions for each case she works on set her apart.”…

    Three Huie Attorneys Named to B-Metro’s 2024 Top Women Attorneys List

    Huie attorneys Jennifer Reid Egbe, Jennifer “JD” Devereaux Segers, and Elizabeth Davis McCoy were selected as B-Metro 2024 Top Women Attorneys. The annual listing features the top women attorneys in the Birmingham metro area. Jennifer Egbe joined Huie in 2007 and initially specialized in the areas of automotive product liability, personal injury, medical malpractice, employment discrimination…

    Huie Earns Placement in Chambers USA 2024 Guide

    Huie Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP has been recognized for the tenth year as one of the Leading Law Firms in Alabama in the Chambers USA 2024 Guide. The firm achieved recognition for excellence in the general commercial litigation practice area for another consecutive year. The new edition of Chambers USA also recognized Huie partner Alan Thomas as…

    Summary Judgment for Healthcare Client Affirmed by Alabama Supreme Court

    The Alabama Supreme Court recently affirmed without opinion a summary judgment motion obtained by Huie Partner Phil Collins, on behalf of a healthcare client in a medical negligence case. The Challenge This case involved claims that the hospital client breached the standard of care in its care and treatment of the Plaintiff patient. The Plaintiff…

    Defense Verdict in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County

    On August 14, 2024, Stewart McCloud and Will Thompson obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County in favor of Joyride Tuscaloosa, LLC, a transportation service company which operates a fleet of specially licensed low-speed vehicles in and around the campus of The University of Alabama. The Plaintiff claimed that in October…

  • Insights

    Attorney Spotlight: Stewart McCloud

    We’re proud to introduce you to Partner Stewart McCloud. Since joining the firm in 2007, Stewart has concentrated his practice in the areas of insurance coverage and defense litigation, professional liability, asbestos and toxic tort litigation, trucking litigation and product liability. He routinely handles professional malpractice claims against lawyers and law firms as well as…

    Attorney Spotlight: John Isaac Southerland

    We’re proud to introduce you to Partner John Isaac Southerland. Since joining the firm in 2004, John Isaac has developed specialties in automotive and manufacturing discovery practice and procedure, general product liability defense, personal injury defense, automotive product liability defense, heavy equipment product liability defense, trucking defense, insurance defense and towing and recovery liability. John…

    The Scope of Protection Provided to Health Care Providers by the Alabama COVID-19 Immunity Act

    For health care providers, COVID-19 ushered in concern: Concern about the well-being of patients; concern about the safety of frontline health workers; and concern about health care providers’ exposure to Covid-related lawsuits. To calm medical providers’ fears about the threat of civil liability for the care provided during the pandemic, Alabama passed the Alabama COVID-19…

    The Future of Employment Agreements and What This Means for Your Business

    Nationally, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is engaging in rulemaking which could potentially prohibit non-compete agreements (NCAs) between employers and employees[1]. A non-compete agreement is a legal agreement or clause in a contract specifying that an employee is prohibited from entering into competition with their employer following the employee’s separation. These agreements may also forbid…

    Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Investigating Workplace Incidents

    Although recent data supports that they are decreasing in frequency across all sectors, work related incidents resulting in employee injuries and fatalities are unavoidable in the construction industry. Even though the industry has done, and continues to do, a much better job focusing on worker safety, the reality is due to the nature of the…

    2018 Alabama Appellate Courts Insurance Law Decisions

    Huie provides insight into recent case law related to significant 2018 Alabama appellate court insurance law decisions. Relatively few insurance-related decisions were released in 2018.  However, the focus of the decisions included in this summary is on underinsured motorist and negligent procurement claims. Specifically, we examine the following issues and their relevant case law: UIM Subrogation Claim…

  • Articles

    Huie Partners Published in Construction Law 2020 Compendium

    Huie is a member of ALFA International, the premier network of independent law firms. ALFA International’s Construction Law Practice Group recently prepared a 2020 Compendium, which is a state-by-state resource on important construction law issues. Huie partners Jimmy Brady, Bart Cannon and Brent Almond authored the section for Alabama. The Compendium provides a synopsis of…

    Huie Attorneys Published in American Journal of Trial Advocacy

    “Stop the Madness: Making Reasonable Amendments to Rule 30(b)(6) Once and for All” American Journal of Trial Advocacy Spring 2019 Volume 42, Number 2   By: Greg Schuck John Isaac Southerland Will Thompson   OVERVIEW Since its inception, Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has become a widely used discovery device whereby…

    Huie Attorneys Co-Author Alabama Data Breach Notification Act Article

    Title: “The ABCs and 123s of the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018: Will Your Company Be Compliance Ready by June 1, 2018?” Authors: Daniel Fortune, Jeremy Gaddy and Bart Cannon; Alabama Construction News, April-June 2018   Governor Ivey recently signed the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018 into law. The Act, which went into effect…

    FDCC Publishes Insurance Article by Tom Bazemore

    Author: Tom Bazemore Title: “Picking Up the Tab When You Weren’t Invited to Dinner: An Insured’s Effort to Collect a Consent Judgment to the Surprise of the Insurer” FDCC Insights: A Journal for Defense and Corporate Counsel, June 2017 The obligation of an insurer to defend an insured is universally recognized as broader than an insurer’s obligation…

    John Isaac Southerland Personal Jurisdiction Article Published

    “Where will suit be filed? Personal jurisdiction considerations when engaging in joint development of autonomous vehicle technology” By: John Isaac Southerland and Alex Thrasher Automotive Testing Technology International Winter 2017 Introduction The idea of a network of fully autonomous vehicles zooming across roads and highways elicits visions of human passengers within casually reading the newspaper,…

    Medical Malpractice Litigation Article Published in ADLA Journal

    “Issues In Today’s Medical Malpractice Litigation Employees, Agents, and More – Claims of Hospital Liability for Physician Conduct” By: Walter Price, Martha Thompson and Jennifer “JD” Segers Alabama Defense Lawyers Association Journal Spring 2017 Traditionally, physicians have not been employees of the hospital; rather, they actually have been independent contractors with staff privileges giving them the…