In Jefferson v. Eggemeyer (2015-SC-625, rendered April 27, 2017), the Kentucky Supreme Court’s Justice Keller considered the circumstances under which it is appropriate for an appellate court to order a...
In McAbee v. Chapman, 504 S.W.3d 18 (Ky. 2016), the Kentucky Supreme Court in an opinion by Justice Lisabeth Hughes considered at length the applicability of KRE 615 to expert...
In a recent 2-1 decision, the Kentucky Court of Appeals reduced a massive punitive damages award (four times the substantial compensatory damages awarded) in a purely economic damages case to...
Rental property owners and lawyers who advise them should be aware of a recent decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals sending a tenant’s claim back for jury trial after...
In McCarty v. Covol Fuels No. 2, LLC, 476 S.W. 3d 224 (Ky. 2015), the Kentucky Supreme Court discussed at length the applicability of Kentucky’s negligence per se statute to...
The Kentucky Court of Appeals held in a December 2015 decision that a trial court may make an equitable award of attorney’s fees in a case in which the jury...
In an opinion (see it here) rendered on August 20, 2015, the Kentucky Supreme Court reversed a jury verdict in favor of a surgeon on a claim for failure to...
In an opinion (https://opinions.kycourts.net/coa/2014-CA-001050.pdf) issued in late July, the Kentucky Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s grant of the defendant’s motion for directed verdict (MDV) that was made immediately...
In a closely watched premises liability case, the Kentucky Supreme Court recently denied review of and approved for publication an opinion of the Kentucky Court of Appeals upholding a trial...
The Kentucky Supreme Court recently held that a CR 59.05 motion to alter, amend or vacate a judgment that fails to state any grounds, in apparent violation of CR 7.02,...
