Mike Hostetter obtained a complete dismissal for a company that provides drivers for special events. The Plaintiffs claimed the company was vicariously liable for the actions of one of its drivers who crashed a luxury shuttle van with guests attending a racing event in north Georgia. Mike was [...]

Mike Hostetter and Jacob Madsen successfully argued that the statute of limitations barred three wrongful death cases arising from a shooting at a house party. The Plaintiffs claimed the shooter had been improperly discharged from a psychiatric facility. The trial court agreed with their [...]

      Michael Davis and Laura Eschleman recently obtained summary judgment for their client on a medical malpractice case in Fulton County Superior Court involving a decubitus ulcer that developed while the plaintiff was hospitalized on a ventilator with a life-threatening infection. The [...]

Partner emeritus Bob Hocutt was honored for fifty years of service by the Georgia State Bar. Bob served his clients with distinction for over forty years at Nall & Miller after a serving as an attorney in the Civil Rights Division for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Laura Eschleman and Molly McCall successfully moved a New York supreme court to award summary judgment in favor of a national locum tenens physician staffing company when it was sued under the doctrine of respondeat superior, or “vicarious liability,” for the alleged failure of an emergency [...]

Matthew B. Jager and Laura D. Eschleman recently obtained summary judgment in state court in favor of a medical oncologist and an oncology practice. The plaintiffs in that case alleged that a delay in prescribing a type of treatment led to a permanent injury. However, the testimony of the [...]

Laura D. Eschleman has been selected as both a 2021 Top Rated Litigator and 2021 Elite Lawyer of the South by Martindale-Hubbell® & ALM. These recognitions will be highlighted in a special section of The American Lawyer magazines as well as the National Law Journal.

  Laura D. Eschleman was selected as a 2020 Woman Leader in the Law by ALM.  This recognition was highlighted in the Corporate Counsel & The American Lawyer magazines, as well as the National Law Journal.

Laura Eschleman was re-appointed to serve her second term as Vice Chair of the DRI Medical Liability and Health Care Law Committee, a Committee made up of around 1,500  medical liability and health care attorneys and claims professionals across the country. While COVID-19 changed DRI’s [...]

 Laura Eschleman and Bob Goldstucker continued to lecture to physicians on risk management issues in 2020, despite the inability to lecture in person due to COVID-19. They lectured to multiple physicians on risk reduction strategies at a national medical malpractice insurer’s educational [...]