Huie attorneys received multiple honors in The Best Lawyers in America 2019 listing. In total, 16 Huie attorneys achieved 33 placements across 12 practice areas. Best Lawyers® is the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession and each year they recognize individual attorneys in designated metropolitan areas for excellence in specific practice areas. This year, several partners received honors…
Huie attorneys Jennifer Reid Egbe and Jennifer “JD” Devereaux Segers were featured in the B-Metro 2018 Top Women Attorneys listing. The annual listing features the top women attorneys in the Birmingham metro area. Since joining Huie in 2007, Jennifer has built a successful practice specializing in the areas of automotive product liability, medical malpractice and employment litigation defense. She earned…
Huie will relocate its Birmingham law office two miles to the east to the recently developed Pump House Plaza at the intersection of US Highway 280 and Pump House Road. First US Bank completed construction of the Birmingham office project in August 2017. The building houses their Birmingham banking offices as well as the corporate…
For the second year, Huie partner John Isaac Southerland will co-chair and speak at the Automotive Product Liability Litigation conference. The conference takes place July 18-20, 2018, in Chicago. This ACI conference is the highest level national event on the market. It’s the only one that combines federal and state judicial insights and networking and business development opportunities…
Huie partners Joe Duncan and Phil Collins were successful in their appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court in DISA Industries, Inc. v. Gregory Bell. In the AEMLD and negligence case, a $500k verdict was overturned. In 2000, Union Foundry entered into a contract with DISA’s predecessor for the purchase and installation of a new molding system. The contract…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Huie provides insight into recent case law related to 2018 Alabama medical malpractice appellate court decisions. Specifically, we examine the following issues and their relevant case law: $10 Million Failure to Diagnose Meningitis Verdict Reversed Physician Acting as Emergency Department Physician Versus Hospitalist Physician Failure to Report an Emergency to a Consulting Physician Still Requires…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
“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,…
“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…