Law & Moran’s Peter Law, left, and Gray Rust St. Amand Moffett Brieske’s Matthew Moffett deliver opening statements at trial over a fall that paralyzed a Georgia man. Watch the trial here.
Marietta, GA— Attorneys Tuesday debated responsibility for the fall that paralyzed a Georgia man, as trial opened against the contractor who performed work on the man’s home. Morder, et al. v. Porter, et al., 22-A-1262.
Thomas Morder fell 15 feet through a railing on an elevated deck at his home in May 2021. The fall left Morder, then 67, with a traumatic brain injury and a thoracic spinal injury that paralyzed him. Morder and his wife, Pamela, contend Michael Porter, a contractor doing business as McTay Improvement, which had been doing work on the Morders’ home at the time, is responsible…