In June 2023, Chad Kessinger and Patrick Muldoon successfully defended a road contractor at trial in Perry Circuit Court against allegations of real property damage secondary to blasting and construction activities conducted by Bizzack Construction, LLC on a road improvement project in Hazard, Ky. A local real estate developer claimed damages to four commercial buildings…
Read articleIn December 2021, Stephen Keller and Adrianna Long obtained Summary Judgment in the Campbell County, Kentucky Circuit Court on behalf of a commercial insurer. The insureds-plaintiffs had filed a breach of contract and bad-faith action alleging that the insurer had improperly denied them coverage in connection with a fraudulent payroll scam. The Court agreed that…
Read articleIn November 2021, Stephen Keller and Adrianna Long obtained Summary Judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of two commercial insurers. The insurers, who were the declaratory judgment plaintiffs in the action, argued that there was no duty to defend the defendants in connection with various lawsuits filed…
Read articleBarnes Maloney PLLC is pleased to announce that Blake V. Edwards has been named partner at the firm. Mr. Edwards joined the firm in 2011 after practicing at a civil defense firm in Lexington, Kentucky. His practice areas include trucking and automobile negligence, wrongful death, real estate disputes, construction defect litigation, products liability, and premises…
Read articleThe Legal Food Frenzy helped support another area of need in the Louisville community – serving those who are food-insecure. Roughly one out of every six adults and one out of every five children in Kentucky lack enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle. Feeding Kentucky’s food banks provide food and quality services to those…
Read articleBarnes Maloney PLLC was one of 10 Louisville-area law firms to throw gutter balls for a brighter future for our city’s youth in the Legal Bowl for Kids’ Sake event — the largest charitable campaign held yearly for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana organization. This year, the Legal Bowl alone raised over $14,000.00….
Read articleIn June 2017, Terri Boroughs and Noel Halpin successfully defended a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon in a jury trial in Fayette County, Kentucky. The allegations included a lack of informed consent and the improper performance of a thymectomy surgical procedure. The Plaintiff alleged that the surgeon failed to appropriately inform her of the risk of…
Read articleIn May 2017, Richard Schiller and Noel Halpin obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a general surgeon following a jury trial in Grayson County, Kentucky. It was alleged that the surgeon was negligent in his removal of a PEG tube and in the subsequent follow-up care that he provided. The Plaintiff went on to…
Read articleStephen Keller is the author of an article entitled “Overcoming Special Obstacles in Non-Party Discovery” which has been published in the Fall-Winter 2016 edition of the Kentucky Defense Counsel’s Common Defense magazine. His article examines the Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, the process for obtaining commissions from Kentucky state courts for out of state documents and…
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