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What Accidents Can Lead to a Personal Injury Case?

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4 years ago

March 24, 2021

Personal injury cases can arise from different types of accidents. These accidents include automobiles, wrongful death, premises liability, and workplace injuries, and are some examples of personal injury case types. Read on to learn about the differences between types of personal injury cases and what you can do if you have been involved in a personal injury accident.

Automobile Accident

Car, motorcycle, and truck accidents can occur when a driver is behaving carelessly and failing to follow the rules of the road. Generally speaking, the at-fault driver, or their insurance provider, will be responsible for paying for the damages and injuries resulting from a car accident.

To prove fault in a car accident case, the injured party must prove that a legal duty was owed, the duty was breached, and the breach of duty led to injuries. All drivers owe a duty to others on the road to operate their vehicle with a reasonable standard of care. Proving that a driver breached this duty and caused injury will help to establish negligence in an automobile personal injury accident.

Wrongful Death

Wrongful death cases arise when an individual dies due to the negligence of another party. These cases are separate from criminal charges that may be related to the death and require a lower standard of proof than a criminal case for murder or manslaughter.

Wrongful death lawsuits can be a result of a number of different circumstances, including medical malpractice, car accidents, and unsafe premises.

Premises Liability

When you are injured on someone else’s property, premises liability may come into play as you determine the cause of your injury. Injuries that result from negligence of a property owner can be the basis for a personal injury case, so long as you can prove that your injury was a result of the property owner’s negligence as it pertains to their property.

Premises liability cases can include slip and fall cases, snow and ice accidents, dog bites, inadequate maintenance of the premises, amusement park accidents, and more. Injuries at the workplace may also fall under this category.

Workplace Injury

Injuries on the job are especially common in industries like construction. In the United States, approximately 137,000 construction employees suffer serious injuries at the workplace annually, with over 800 of those injuries resulting in death. A few of the common construction site accidents that lead to personal injury cases in construction are falls from scaffolding or structures, tripping or slipping, being struck by vehicles or moving materials, electrocution, trench collapse, and injuries from fires or explosions.

Workers’ compensation often does not fully cover the cost of these types of accidents, which is why many individuals pursue personal injury claims instead.

I Have Been Injured – What Now?

If you have endured any type of accident or injury and are unsure what steps to take, you are not alone. The knowledgeable attorneys at Shiver Hamilton can help you navigate the process of personal injury claims so that you can focus on what matters– healing from your injuries. Reach out to a dedicated Atlanta car accident lawyer at Shiver Hamilton today to learn how you can receive the compensation you deserve.

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TRG Chairman Khaishgi and CEO Aslam implicated in $150 million fraud

Published

6 days ago

June 23, 2025

Jenny Jackson

In a scathing 52-page decision, the Sindh High Court has found that TRG Pakistan’s management was acting fraudulently and that Bermuda-based Greentree Holdings historic and prospective purchase of TRG shares were illegal, fraudulent and oppressive.

The Sindh High Court has further directed TRGP to immediately hold board elections that have been overdue and illegally withheld by the existing board since January 14, 2025.

In the landmark ruling, the Sindh High Court has blocked the attempted takeover of TRG Pakistan Limited by Greentree Holdings, declaring that the shares acquired by Greentree, nearly 30% of TRG’s stock, were unlawfully financed using TRG’s funds in violation of Section 86(2) of the Companies Act 2017.

“Having concluded that the affairs of TRGP are being conducted in an unlawful and fraudulent manner and in a manner oppressive to members such as the Petitioner (Zia Chishti), the case falls for corrective orders under sub-section (2) of section 286 of the Companies Act,” Justice Adnan Iqbal Chaudhry concluded.

The case was brought by TRGP former CEO and founder Pakistani-American technology entrepreneur Zia Chishti against TRG Pakistan, its associate TRG International and TRG International’s wholly-owned shell company Greentree Limited. In addition, the case named AKD Securities for managing Greentree’s illegal tender offer as well as various regulators requiring that they act to perform their regulatory duties.

The case centred around the dispute that shell company Greentree Limited was fraudulently using TRG Pakistan’s own funds to purchase TRG Pakistan’s shares in order to give control to Zia Chishti’s former partners Mohammed Khaishgi, Hasnain Aslam and Pinebridge Investments.

According to the case facts, the Chairman of TRG Pakistan Mohammed Khaishgi and the CEO of TRG Pakistan Hasnain Aslam masterminded the $150 million fraud. They did so together with Hong Kong based fund manager Pinebridge who has two nominees on TRG Pakistan’s board, Mr. John Leone and Mr. Patrick McGinnis.

According to the court papers, Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis set up a shell company called Greentree which they secretly controlled and from which they started buying up shares of TRG Pakistan. The fraud was that Greentree was using TRG Pakistan’s funds itself. The idea was to give Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis control over TRG Pakistan even though they owned less than 1% of the company, lawyers of the petitioner told the court.

This was all part of a broader battle for control over TRG Pakistan that is raging between Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis on one side and TRG Pakistan founder Zia Chishti on the other side. Zia Chishti has been trying to retake control of TRG Pakistan after he was forced to resign in 2021 based on sexual misconduct allegations made by a former employee of his. This year those allegations were shown to be without basis in litigation that Chishti launched in the United Kingdom against The Telegraph newspaper which had printed the allegations. The Telegraph was forced to apologize for 13 separate articles it published about Chishti and paid him damages and legal costs.

After Chishti resigned in 2021, Khaishgi, Aslam, Leone, and McGinnis moved to take total control over TRG Pakistan and its various subsidiaries including TRG International and to block out Chishti. The Sindh High Court’s ruling today has reversed that effort, ruling the scheme fraudulent, illegal, and oppressive.

It now appears that Zia Chishti will take control of TRG Pakistan in short order when elections are called. He and his family are now the largest shareholders with over 30% interest. He is closely followed by companies related to Jahangir Siddiqui & Company which have over a 20% interest. The result appears to be a complete vindication for Zia Chishti and damning for his rivals Aslam, Khaishgi, Leone, and McGinnis who have been ruled to have been conducting a fraud.

TRG Pakistan’s share price declined by over 8% on the news on heavy volume. Market experts say that this was because the tender offer at Rs 75 was gone and that now shares would trade closer to their natural value. Presently the shares are trading at Rs 59 per share.

According to the court ruling, since 2021, shell company Greentree had purchased approximately 30% of TRG shares using $80 million of TRG’s own money, which means that that the directors of TRG Pakistan allowed company assets to be funneled through offshore affiliates TRG International and Greentree for acquiring TRG’s shares – a move deemed both fraudulent and oppressive to minority shareholders. The Sindh High Court also found illegal Greentree’s further attempt to purchase another 35% of TRG shares using another $70 million of TRG’s money in a tender offer.

The ruling is a major victory for the tech entrepreneur Zia Chishti against his former partners and the legal ruling paves the way for him to take control of TRG in a few weeks.