Jury awards $47.5 million to motorcyclist hit by underage drunk driver 
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: February 22, 2013
Tags: dram shop liability, John Dill, Matthew Morgan, Morgan & Morgan
After a trial solely on damages, a jury has awarded $47.5 million to a motorcycle rider hit head-on by a teenaged drunk driver.
Benchmarks: Hotel may have to pay for drunk guest’s fatal plummet
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 16, 2013
Tags: dram shop liability, premises liability, wrongful death, “open and obvious danger” doctrine
An Arizona hotel thought it was off the hook for the death of a severely intoxicated guest who plunged three stories after climbing out of the window of her room.
But as puzzling as it may seem, a state court decided last week that a jury should decide whether the hotel breached a duty of care.
Store isn’t liable for drunk driving death
Published: October 16, 2012
Tags: dram shop liability, negligence
A store could not be subject to dram shop liability based on its selling beer to the underage passenger of an underage driver who allegedly caused a fatal accident, the California Court of Appeal has ruled.
Benchmarks: Bid to attach dram shop liability to landlord fizzles
Published: August 15, 2012
Tags: dram shop liability, negligence
Nice try, but no cigar. That sums up one Kentucky attorney’s attempt to make the landlord of a sports bar liable for a drunk patron’s automobile accident.
Convenience store may have dram shop liability
Published: July 11, 2011
Tags: dram shop liability
A convenience store may be liable under state dram shop law for selling closed containers of alcohol to a noticeably intoxicated customer, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in reversing judgment.
Airport bar suit tests limits of dram shop liability in accident
By:
Scott Lauck
Published: June 29, 2011
Tags: dram shop liability, drunk driving, wrongful death
A drinking bout in Kansas City, Mo. that may have led to a fatal accident in Texas is testing the limits of a Missouri statute that generally shields bars from liability.
