KDC welcomes its newest member, Trevor L. Earl of Reed, Weitkamp, Schell & Vice PLLC, Louisville.  Mr. Earl graduated from law school at the College of William and Mary and practices in the areas of premises liability and product liability.  He is sponsored by KDC Past President, Ridley M. Sandige.

Congratulations to KDC member, Greg Funfsinn on his recent defense verdict!

... a good result for a restaurant client ... after a 3-day jury trial in Bell County, KY. The case involved a slip/trip and fall on a recently mopped floor at a quick serve restaurant. Plaintiff sustained a trimalleolar ankle fracture with dislocation that required multiple surgeries and hardware. She asked the jury for more than $673,000 in damages. The jury returned a verdict placing 51% fault on Plaintiff and 49% on my client. She was awarded only her past medical expenses and lost wages. 

Congratulations to KDC members Ashley Brown & Tucker Willis on their recent defense verdict:

Ashley Brown and Tucker Willis obtained a unanimous defense verdict today in a jury trial in Jefferson County.  The premises liability case involved allegations of a traumatic brain injury and claimed medical expenses of $160,000.  The claimed damages were diminished through pretrial motion practice, resulting in the plaintiff being permitted to claim $5,500 at trial.  The jury deliberated and returned a defense verdict on liability, finding no dangerous condition on the defendant’s premises.

KDC welcomes its newest member, Larry Church of McNeely Stephenson, New Albany, Indiana.  practices in the areas of Appellate, Auto, Bad Faith, Business Litigation, Construction, Contract, General Liability, Insurance Coverage, Premises and Product Liability, Property and Torts.  He is a member of DRI and sponsored by KDC member, Tom Glassman.

KDC member, Rachel Stratton, is now practicing with O'Bryan, Brown & Toner, Louisville.

KDC welcomes its two newest members:  Timothy Edward Bridgeman and Ian A. Loos, of Bell, Orr, Ayers & Moore, P.S.C., Bowling Green.

Mr. Bridgeman is a graduate of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and practices in the areas of Auto, Civil Rights, General Liability, Insurance, Premises and Tort.

Mr. Loos is a graduate of the University of Kentucky Law School and practices in the areas of Auto,  General Liability, Insurance, Premises and Tort.

Both members are sponsored by KDC Director, Paul Lawless.

The following is reprinted from the KBA website:

State bar associations nationwide are reporting that their members have been receiving false notifications indicating that a disciplinary action has been filed against them. The emails appear to have been sent from the association’s office of bar counsel or their local bar association. 

ALL correspondence from the Kentucky Bar Association’s Office of Bar Counsel (OBC) regarding the commencing of a disciplinary action will come via the U.S. Post Office. The OBC never uses email to send notice to a member of a disciplinary proceeding. 

We suggest that you delete suspicious emails IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT open these emails or click any links. Doing so could result in your computer or device being exposed to a virus. We ask that our members be careful and diligent in regards to this matter.

If you are unsure about an email or a website, please contact us at (502) 564-3795.

KDC welcomes its newest member, Lyndol Scott Miller of Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC, Lexington.  Mr. Miller graduated from the University of Northern Kentucky Chase College of Law and practices in the areas of Auto, Civil, Employment and Government Entity.  He is sponsored by KDC Past President, Hank Jones.

KDC member, Langdon Worley, is now practicing at the law firm of Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC, Lexington. 

For those of you who are members of DRI, we wanted to bring the following to your attention. In the November 2016 issue of Common Defense, on page 4 there is the great news that our great friend, John Trimble, was the recipient of the Indianapolis Bar Association's 2016 Professionalism Awards. For those of us who have had the privilege of working with John, we know this is well deserved. Congratulations, John!

On page 4, there is a picture of KDC Director, Jeff Lowe, relative to Jeff being nominated and appointed to serve a one-year term on the DRI's Board of Directors. We appreciate having Jeff on our Board, and we know DRI will not be disappointed with his efforts.

Skipping past some other great articles and landing on page 20, there is a great article on Endometrial Cancer - A Primer in Medicine and the Law authored by KDC member, Andrew DeSimone of Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC, Lexington, which is co-authored with Dr. Christpher DeSimone who is an associate professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Kentucky. Well done!!

It's great to see so many peopled involved with KDC in the national organization's publication. Keep up the good work and keep us Kentucky Proud!