CRANE COMPOSITES, INC. v. WAYNE FARMS, LLC

No. S14A1680.

765 S.E.2d 921 (2014)

296 Ga. 271

CRANE COMPOSITES, INC. v. WAYNE FARMS, LLC et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

November 17, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward McDowell Newsom , Miller & Martin PLLC, Robert B. Wedge , Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.

Nels Stefan David Peterson , Samuel S. Olens , Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Jessica Eileen Sabbath , William Lloyd Durham, II , King & Spalding, LLP, Steven Gordon Hall , Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Atlanta, Hobart M. Hind, Jr. , Butler Pappas Weihmuller Katz Craig, LLP, Tampa, Jefferson C. McConnaughey , Michael A. McKenzie , Cozen O'Connor, Atlanta, for appellee.

A. Gregory Poole , Cobb County Superior Court, Marietta, for other party.


The question for decision in this case is whether OCGA § 9-11-68, a tort reform, fee-shifting statute, can be applied to a negligence action in which the injury occurred prior to the effective date of the statute, but in which the action was filed after that date. We answer this question affirmatively and, in so doing...

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