Personal Injury Litigation After Tort Reform: New Strategies and Tactics for Representing PI Clients
Assessing Recent Georgia Law Aimed at Limiting Large Verdicts: Effectiveness, Unintended Consequences, Impact Outside the State
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will review and offer insights into Senate Bill (SB) 68, Georgia's tort reform law enacted in 2025. The panel will address how the new law fits into the tort reform movement, its impact outside Georgia, and how the new law affects both strategic and tactical issues in personal injury litigation, and will offer insight into whether it is likely to be effective in achieving the sponsors' stated goals as well as its unintended consequences.
Outline
- Overview of changes
- Legislative predicates
- Plaintiff responses and strategies
- Impact on tort reform in other states
Benefits
The panel will review these and other important issues:
- What additional burdens does the new law impose on judges?
- How will anchoring restrictions be enforced?
- How have similar reforms worked in other states?
- Are there any constitutional challenges to the new laws?
- Strategies for attorneys to effectively represent PI clients under the new rules
Faculty
Briant G. Mildenhall
Partner
Fried Goldberg
Mr. Mildenhall is a partner at Fried Goldberg LLC who represents individuals and families in... | Read More
Mr. Mildenhall is a partner at Fried Goldberg LLC who represents individuals and families in catastrophic injury and wrongful death against corporations and insurance companies. Prior to joining Fried Goldberg, he was a partner at a firm specializing in plaintiff personal injury cases. Mr. Mildenhall worked at his prior firm ten years and gained experience trying and litigating trucking cases, motor vehicle collision cases, and premises liability cases. Before that, he worked for several years at a firm handling defense of trucking and premises liability cases. Mr. Mildenhall has firsthand knowledge of how insurance companies evaluate claims and uses this insider knowledge to help his injured clients.
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Brian T. Mohs
Partner
Fried Goldberg
Mr. Mohs represents individuals who have been injured in motor vehicle accidents involving trucks and motor... | Read More
Mr. Mohs represents individuals who have been injured in motor vehicle accidents involving trucks and motor carriers. He has civil litigation experience in the areas of motor carrier and transportation liability, motor vehicle accidents, products liability, premises liability and insurance coverage. His prior experience includes defending truck drivers and trucking companies, serving as National Products Counsel for the world’s largest manufacturer of home appliances, and he represents MARTA, as well as numerous individuals and insurance companies, in a variety of matters including cases involving automobile and bus accidents, premises liability and insurance coverage.
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