Personal Injury Law

The Liquor Industry Makes Great Laws

By Rob McKinney

Laws on the liability of liquor stores and bars selling liquor or beer is commonly referred to as dram shop laws. I submit that liquor stores and bars have a duty not to sell alcoholic beverages to an obviously intoxicated person.,but the lawmakers in Nashville think otherwise.The Tennessee Legislature has enacted a number of these dram shop laws which clearly protects them from tort liability rather than protecting the public from drunk drivers. Tennessee Code Annotated Section 57-10-101 makes it nearly impossible for one who has been injured by a intoxicated person to state a claim for negligence against the person or entity who furnished the liquor or beer because the statute removes the required element of causation. Accidents caused by drunk drivers are a serious problem. Why does the legislature give bars immunity from liability on where the sale of alcohol is the reason for the accident ?

Full post as published by Nashville Personal Injury Lawyer on July 27, 2008 (boomark / email).