(11/5/05): After extensive pre-trial discovery, depositions and one week prior to a federal court trial scheduled in Nashville, attorney Eddie Schmidt announced a confidential settlement of a civil rights/medical malpractice case that involved a failure to timely diagnose and treat...
View ArticleSettlement in significant wrongful death case filed in Overton County, Tennessee in a mediation held in Nashville, Tennessee on July 25, 2005. The case involved the failure to treat and diagnose group b strep in a pregnant mother whose child...
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$193 Million Qui Tam Settlement $80 million settlement in Tri-State Crematory Cases $39.5 million Settlement in Tri-State Crematory Litigation $8.7 million settlement for 225 Plaintiffs against Buckner-Rush Funeral Home Confidential settlements to the families of victims who died in the...
View ArticleThe nation was horrified when facts came to light that an unlicensed crematory operator had discarded over 1,000 bodies on his property in Noble, Georgia. David Randolph Smith filed the first case, a class action suit, and was Class Counsel in the...
View ArticleOn 10/20/10 the Tennessee Supreme Court reinstated a jury verdict obtained by David Randolph Smith & Associates for the widow of a Tennessee Army National Guard sergeant who died in 2000. The jury had awarded $7.2 million in the Tennessee...
View ArticleOn November 2, 2007 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion reversing summary judgment in favor of the defendants and holding that the landowner-plaintiffs could pursue intentional trespass, nuisance and strict liability claims against the operators of the...
View ArticleIn a significant constitutional case on the issue of government establishment of religion, lead counsel Eddie Schmidt successfully represented a group that challenged the constitutionality of a Louisiana law that granted religious groups and churches a sales tax exemption in...
View ArticleOn July 5, 2004 Estelle Richardson was found dead in her solitary confinement cell at Corrections Corporation of America’s Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility at 5115 Harding Place in Nashville, Tennessee. An official investigation showed that Richardson was the only inmate...
View Article(11/11/05): After extensive pre-trial discovery and a day long mediation in Nashville, Tennessee, attorney David Randolph Smith announced a confidential settlement of a wrongful death case that involved a physician’s treatment of a patient with a rare blood coagulation disorder–...
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