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ERISA Plan Can Disgorge Money From Attorney and Client According To 6th Circuit
Posted on November 20, 2009The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has issued an important opinion in an ERISA case. In Longaberger Co. v. Kolt, No. 08-4432 Nov. 16, 2009. the court held an ERISA plan could enforce its reimbursement rights...
Volvo Issues Recall For Seatbelt Defect
Posted on November 19, 2009Our Atlanta automobile product defect attorneys have written many blogs critical of automobile manufacturers for delaying or resisting recalls of dangerous products. Now Volvo deserves credit for quickly and voluntarily issuing a recall due to a dangerous defect...
Jury Awards Millions To Family In Tractor-Trailer Wrongful Death Case
Posted on November 18, 2009Georgia injury lawyers are well aware of how often preventable truck accidents occur because trucking companies are negligent in either the hiring or retention of dangerous drivers. Recently, we took the deposition of the owner of a trucking company who...
Acetaminophen (Tylenol Ingredient) Continues To Kill
Posted on November 18, 2009We just read of another incident in which an Atlanta area young man died as a result of an ?overdose? of acetaminophen, the aspirin-free pain reliever found in Tylenol. Many people believe acetaminophen is one of the safest painkillers on...
Atlanta Pedestrian Dangers
Posted on November 16, 2009Atlanta pedestrians are subject to many dangers. Transportation For America, a consumer advocacy group has ranked the metro area as the 10th most-dangerous city for pedestrians in 2007-2008. The group said there are 5,000 preventable pedestrian deaths in the U...
Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer:
Posted on November 14, 2009The Women?s Health Initiative has issued warnings in the past that certain hormone replacement medications have the ability to harm many women. For example, Prempro is a drug that has been taken by as many as 6 million women in...
Dangerous Treestands Recalled
Posted on November 13, 2009Treestand accidents injure and kill many hunters every year. Some of the product liability lawyers at Finch McCranie are avid hunters and we have successfully pursued legal actions against companies which manufactured dangerously defective treestands...
"98,000 Reasons" Why Medical Negligence and Medical Malpractice Remain a Public Health Danger
Posted on November 11, 2009As Congress debates providing and paying for health care, another huge "cost" must not be forgotten: the cost of medical errors and medical negligence. According to conservative estimates, 98,000 Americans annually die because of preventable medical negligence...
Dangerous Stroller Recall
Posted on November 10, 2009Our Atlanta product liability lawyers attempt to notify the public to the best of our abilities when there is a safety recall for a defective product. Yesterday, a baby stroller company voluntarily recalled about one million strollers after reports that...
Makers Of Dangerous Foreign Made Products Have Protections Not Available To U.S. Companies
Posted on November 10, 2009Our Georgia product liability lawyers have filed many lawsuits against foreign manufacturers for dangerous products introduced into commerce in the United States. In these actions it is sometimes very difficult to find and serve the manufacturer in a foreign country...
Consumer Finance Bill Proceeds In Congress
Posted on November 08, 2009Our Atlanta consumer lawyers often have to inform wronged consumers that they have no remedy under the law. We see this very often in the investment, credit, and banking areas. Legislation that, if enacted, will provide greater protection to investors...
Supreme Court Tackles Prosecutorial Immunity
Posted on November 06, 2009The United States Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a very interesting case. The question before the Court in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, v. McGhee and Harrington is : Do citizens who have been framed by unscrupulous prosecutors for crimes they...
Toyota Sudden Acceleration May Be More Than Mat Problem
Posted on November 04, 2009Our Georgia product liability lawyers have been monitoring the Toyota recall due to uncontrolled rapid acceleration. Several weeks ago, Toyota announced the biggest recall in its history. The Japanese automaker issued a safety advisory urging Toyota owners of over 3...
Verdict Against Michelin In Defective Tire Case
Posted on October 30, 2009http://www.georgiainjurylawyers.net/Truck-Accidents.cfmWhen a truck accident or automobile accident causes serious personal injuries or wrongful death, you may have a tort or wrongful death claim that you can bring against the vehicle owner and driver...
Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Over Police Chase That Ended in Fatality
Posted on October 30, 2009It seems that everyday when our personal injury lawyers open the paper, we read about another wrongful death in the context of a high speed police chase. Today, we read about another tragic police chase, this one in Montana. The...
Dangerous ROV Off-Road Vehicles To Be Regulated
Posted on October 29, 2009THere are many Off ?Road recreational vehicles, ROVs in use in Georgia. Now, they are going to be subject to new safety rules promulgated by the federal government. We have previously written about efforts of consumer and safety advocates to...
Dangerous Contraceptive Pills Yaz and YasminShould Be Removed From The Market
Posted on October 29, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers, we are well aware that citizens can no longer rely on the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to be the guardian of public safety when it comes to new drugs that come to market. Every year, the...
Dangerous Drugs Remain On Market
Posted on October 27, 2009Potentially dangerous and ineffective drugs have been allowed to stay on the market by the Food and Drug Administration even when follow-up studies showed they didn't perform as advertised. In a report released yesterday, the Government Accountability Office shows that...
Burn Injuries Often Caused By Defective Products
Posted on October 27, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers, we have seen our share of serious burn injury cases. Burn injuries vary widely in both their cause and severity. Many burn accidents occur as a result of the negligence of someone other than the victim....
Aide Pleads Guilty To Neglect In Nursing Home Death
Posted on October 26, 2009Nursing home neglect and nursing home negligence leading to the wrongful death or serious injury of the elderly is a growing problem. With the number of aging baby boomers steadily increasing, it is likely to continue to be a problem....
Federal Pleading Standards Receiving Congressional Scrutiny
Posted on October 26, 2009Pleading standards in Federal Courts have been dramatically impacted by two recent United States Supreme Court decisions. These decisions, Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, raised the standard that parties bringing a lawsuit must meet to avoid...
Serious Injury Or Death Often Results From Electrocution Injury
Posted on October 24, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers, we have seen a number of electrocution cases over the years. Some of the electrocutions result in serious injury and many result in death. Electrocution injury can cause many problems which include, tingling, pain, tetany, palpitations,...
Consumer Protection Agency Closer To Reality
Posted on October 24, 2009On Wednesday of this week, the House Financial Services Committee of the United States Congress voted for a bill to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) by a vote of 39 to 29. The proposed agency, which is part...
Doctors Convicted Of Felonies Still Paid By Taxpayers
Posted on October 23, 2009Doctors who have committed crimes are still being paid by taxpayers for doing work for the Food and Drug Administration according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. This work ranges from conducting research for the agency or overseeing...
Nine Deaths Linked To Highly Flammable Women's Robes
Posted on October 23, 2009The product liability injury lawyers at Finch McCranie,LLP have handled many wrongful death cases stemming from dangerous products. These products take many different forms. The Associated Press reported this week that full-lenght women's chenille robes made in Pakistan are being...
Ford Recall:Cruise Controls Malfunction
Posted on October 20, 2009Recently our firm posted a blog about a tragic accident in Georgia where an 11-year old girl lost her life due to an apparent malfunctioning cruise control switch on a Ford Econoline Van. Last week, we noted with great...
Defective Cruise Control Suspected In Wrongful Death
Posted on October 16, 2009We read today about a tragic case in which an 11-year old girl was killed in an accident that may have resulted from a defective product. According to news accounts, a 1997 Ford Econoline Van lost control near the...
Burn Injuries to Children
Posted on October 15, 2009Over the years our firm has handled a variety of legal cases involving serious burn injuries to children. These cases can be extremely tragic and some of the cases we have handled have involved the death of young children...
Recreational Off-Road Vehicle Rules Proposed
Posted on October 13, 2009Our Atlanta attorneys frequently review cases involving recreational off-road vehicles which involve death and serious injury. The Consumer Product Safety Commission staff has recommended that the agency set mandatory rules to regulate recreational off-road vehicles...
Consumer Bill In Trouble
Posted on October 13, 2009Consumers have been battered by the fall of the economy, and a great deal of the blame for the collapse can be laid squarely on banks and other large financial institutions. Having been saved by the federal government bailout, many...
Georgia Tractor-Trailer Accident Results In Death of Driver
Posted on October 13, 2009Georgia injury lawyers who represent victims of tractor trailer accidents have long since known that driver fatigue may be the number one safety problem in the trucking industry today, and is a factor in nearly 40% of all crashes nationwide....
In Tribute To A Fine Man And Lawyer
Posted on October 12, 2009Today I attended the funeral of Thomas E. Magill, a well respected insurance defense attorney in Atlanta. Tom was a absolute pleasure to work with as a defense attorney. Even though his clients were always large insurance companies, Tom...
Medical Malpractice and Servicemembers
Posted on October 09, 2009Medical malpractice has long been condoned if perpetrated against a service member. Now, in an effort to rectify this grossly unfair situation involving those serving their country, members of the House Judiciary Committee forwarded a bill to the full House...
Georgia Supreme Court Issues Ruling Favorable to Victims of Crime
Posted on October 07, 2009This past week, the Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling that was favorable to victims of crime who have civil tort claims arising out of the criminal acts perpetrated against them. The Supreme Court held that the statute of...
Fatal Toyota Sudden Acceleration Cases Raise National Concerns
Posted on October 07, 2009In early September, a veteran of the California Highway Patrol was provided a loaner vehicle from a Lexus dealer while his car was being serviced. After leaving the dealership, this 19-year law enforcement officer, whose job included safety inspections,...
Falls In Nursing Homes, Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities
Posted on October 02, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented many clients who have sustained serious injuries as a result of falling in hospitals, nursing homes and extended care facilities. Patients who are long term residents in skilled nursing facilities...
Nursing Home Falls
Posted on October 02, 2009Everyday patients fall in Georgia nursing homes. Our Atlanta attorneys have successfully tried cases against nursing homes and other skilled care facilities in which patients have suffered severe injuries due to preventable falls. Patients who are in long term nursing...
High Court Upholds Vioxx Award in Wrongful Death Case
Posted on September 30, 2009Every year Georgia citizens purchase and take millions of dollars worth of prescription medication, thinking that it is safe to do so. Georgia injury lawyers know that unfortunately, many of these medications are dangerous drugs, notwithstanding the fact that the...
Medical Device Makers Push Products
Posted on September 30, 2009Big drug makers and medical device makers spend millions of dollars every year promoting their products to doctors and healthcare providers. Less known is the fact that they also spend millions lobbying Congress and agencies to push approval of their...
Report: FDA Approved Medical Device Under Political Pressure
Posted on September 29, 2009Georgia injury lawyers know that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hardly the consumer safety ?watchdog? that it was in prior years. In fact, just because a product has been approved by the FDA does not mean that it...
Report: FDA Approves A Controversial Medical Device As A Result Of Political Pressure
Posted on September 29, 2009Georgia injury lawyers know that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hardly the consumer safety ?watchdog? that it was in prior years. In fact, just because a product has been approved by the FDA does not mean that it...
Truck Drivers Engaging In Dangerous Activities
Posted on September 29, 2009Many truck drivers on the roads of Georgia and other states engage in dangerous activities many times a day. Hundreds of thousands of long-haul truckers use computers in their cabs to get directions and stay in close contact with dispatchers....
Medical Errors Abound
Posted on September 28, 2009Amid the debate over so called medical malpractice reform, the rights of patients seem to be getting sacrificed for the profit of large insurance companies. A recent report from California demonstrates why the right of patients to redress in courts...
Georgia Nursing Home Abuse and Negligent Care
Posted on September 28, 2009Georgia nursing homes have been the subject of many investigations finding negligence and abuse in the care of the elderly and infirm. A new report has disclosed troubling information. A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing...
Medical Device Maker Payments to Physician Subject to Probe
Posted on September 24, 2009U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa is continuing his probe of improper relationships between big pharmaceutical manufacturers and physicians. He is now investigating the financial ties between the head of spine surgery at the University of Minnesota and device giant Medtronic...
Sexual Predators in the Workplace
Posted on September 20, 2009Many employment lawyers are confronted with hostile environment claims where managers exploit their positions to seek sexual favors from employees working underneath them. Such an employment case obviously involves sexual harassment but is entirely different and generally far less devastating...
Board of Commissioners To Conduct Independent Investigation of Fatal High Speed Chase
Posted on September 19, 2009From newspaper accounts it appears that the Board of Commissioners of Clayton County may conduct an independent investigation into a police chase which resulted in the wrongful death of two innocent women who were returning from bible study when...
Dangerous Toyota Vehicles
Posted on September 17, 2009Dangerous Toyota vehicles that may cause serious injury or death are on the roads of Georgia. Yesterday, Toyota announced it will order all dealers to inspect their cars for mismatched floor mats after a mat was suspected of causing a...
Jury Awards Tractor-Trailer Accident Victim $1.4 Million
Posted on September 17, 2009A Georgia man has been awarded almost $1.4 million for injuries he sustained in a tractor-trailer accident last year. The jury agreed with the injured victim that the truck driver suddenly and without warning pulled into his path. The victim?s...
Augusta Truck Accident Results in Wrongful Death of Passenger
Posted on September 16, 2009The Augusta Chronicle reported today that two Augusta, Georgia men died from injuries they sustained when their Dodge pick-up truck rolled several times after hitting the median on Gordon Highway. According to the Richmond County Coroner, the truck accident occurred...
Georgia Man's Wrongful Death- Was Alcohol A Factor?
Posted on September 14, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have handled many wrongful death lawsuits where alcohol was a factor in causing or contributing to our client?s death. Some of these cases have involved our representation of a guest passenger who...
Clayton County Police Chase Resulting in Wrongful Death of Two Innocent Victims Is an Outrage
Posted on September 12, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have sued a number of police departments around the State of Georgia for the wrongful death of innocent citizens caused by police chases. Our experience has shown that following a high speed...
STUDY SHOWS UNSAFE TRUCK AND BUSES STILL OPERATE ON AMERICA'S HIGHWAYS
Posted on September 12, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have handled many tractor trailer truck accidents and bus accidents, many of which were caused by defective equipment, including tires and brakes. Although there are plenty of federal regulations designed to force...
Dangerous Drawstrings In Children Clothing
Posted on September 11, 2009Our Atlanta product liability attorneys have represented parents of children killed and seriously injured by dangerous products. Drawstrings in hooded sweatshirts have been long recognized as a danger to small children. There have been many reports of children strangled after...
Clayton County Georgia Police Chase Leads To Wrongful Death of Two Innocent Victims
Posted on September 10, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have several wrongful death lawsuits pending against various police departments throughout the state. They all involve police chases.They all involve police officers violating their own department policy with respect to police chases...
Big Business Trys To Derail Financial Reform
Posted on September 09, 2009The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is again launching an attempt to protect its mega business members at the expense of ordinary U.S. citizens. The Chamber has been at the forefront in attempts to mislead Americans about a multitude of issues...
Jury Apportions Liability In Wrongful Death Trucking Accident Case
Posted on September 08, 2009Georgia injury lawyers know that the causes of multi-vehicle tractor trailer accidents are often complex, especially when the collision results in the wrongful death of one of the drivers. This was the case in a trucking accident involving 2 trucks...
Dangerous Trucks And Unsafe Practices By Motor Carriers
Posted on September 01, 2009Georgia has thousands of unsafe and dangerous trucks and tractor trailers operating on its highways and roads. A new study has revealed the extent of dangerous and unsafe truck companies operating in Georgia and the United States. As nearly 30...
$3.5 MILLION AWARDED IN WRONGFUL DEATH LOGGING TRUCK ACCIDENT
Posted on August 31, 2009An Alabama jury recently awarded $3.5 million to the family of a man killed when the van he was driving was crushed between 2 logging trucks according to the Montgomery Advertiser. The truck accident occurred when one of the logging...
$5.3 MILLION WRONGFUL DEATH AWARD IN SMOKER?S DEATH
Posted on August 30, 2009A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man over $5.3 million in his wrongful death lawsuit against Phillip Morris, the cigarette maker according to The Miami Herald. The man?s wife died in 1996 at the age of 63 from lung cancer...
Wrongful Death Verdict For $13.8 Million Against Cigarette Maker
Posted on August 29, 2009Georgia injury lawyers have not forgotten the sworn testimony the CEO?s of all of the major tobacco companies gave Congress a few years ago. Who could forget when these prominent men raised their right hands and swore that ?Nicotine is...
Google Alerts Demonstrate Dangers of Police Chases
Posted on August 29, 2009If you go on Google and take advantage of a tool known as ?Google News Alerts,? Google will send to you via e-mail news accounts in which certain terms are used. I typed in today the terms ?police chase killed.?...
FAMILY AWARDED $3.5 MILLION IN WRONGFUL DEATH MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASE
Posted on August 27, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have written before about the draconian ?tort reform? laws enacted by the Georgia legislature in recent years. Most Georgia citizens have no idea what their elected politicians have done to deprive them...
Drunk Driving Deaths Among Females Shows Alarming Increase
Posted on August 27, 2009A Douglas County, Georgia woman has been charged with criminal offenses involving drunk driving after a collision early last Monday morning resulted in two deaths of innocent motorists. The Atlanta press reported that Natasha Searcy, 22, was driving drunk in...
STUDY SHOWS DANGEROUS TRUCK AND BUSES STILL OPERATE ON AMERICA'S ROADS
Posted on August 26, 2009Georgia injury lawyers handling tractor trailer accident cases involving serious injury or wrongful death cases are well aware of the dangerous trucks on Georgia highways. Recently, the Associated Press obtained a study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found...
Danger Warning For Weight Loss Drugs
Posted on August 25, 2009Our Georgia attorneys frequently receive calls about dangerous drugs which seem to be routinely marketed to unsuspecting consumers and health care professionals. Recently, weight-loss drugs made by mega-manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Roche Holding AG were linked to at least 32...
Bassinet Warnings Renewed After Georgia Death
Posted on August 23, 2009Last September a 2 month old child in Demorest, Georgia, died after being suffocated when she became trapped in a pocket of fabric not securely fastened to her bassinet. In January of this year, a 6 month old child in...
Drug Maker Caught Ghostwriting Articles For Physicians
Posted on August 21, 2009Drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline has apparently been caught using a ghostwriting program to promote its antidepressant Paxil. The program allowed doctors to take credit for medical journal articles mainly written by company consultants. Documents obtained through discovery in a civil lawsuit...
Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Exposed
Posted on August 18, 2009The current health care debate has been expoited by large insurance companies and certain doctor groups to advance limits on their exposure for what are often preventable errors which many times leave innocent people maimed or dead. The Lexington Kentucky...
Another Unfair Mandatory Arbitration Clause Bites The Dust
Posted on August 16, 2009Another bank with a large presence in Georgia has bowed to pressure from consumers and consumer advocacy groups and abandoned the unfair practice of mandatory arbitration. Bank of America Corp. announced it will stop requiring that disputes with its credit...
Health Insurer MIsleading Practices Exposed
Posted on August 15, 2009A health insurer which sells policies in Georgia and other states has been subjected to a major fine and other sanctions by the state of New York, after New York officials accused it of leaving patients with huge hospital bills....
Police Pursuits and Death to the Innocent: The Police Don?t Get It
Posted on August 14, 2009We read this week the tragic news of eight (8) deaths in a police chase in California. According to news accounts, the police were trying to stop a Dodge Neon over alleged traffic infractions when the pursuit began. Is it...
Whistleblower Bill Advances In Senate
Posted on August 13, 2009A United States Senate committee has approved a bill that would give broader whistleblower protection to federal employees. The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009, S. 372, which amends the existing Whistleblower Protection Act, was unanimously approved by the Senate...
Jury Awards Woman $4 Million For Doctor's Negligence In Emergency Room
Posted on August 10, 2009Georgia injury lawyers representing victims of medical malpractice are still disheartened about the so-called ?tort reform? that the Georgia Legislature has enacted in the last two or three years. Most Georgia citizens have no idea that they have given virtual...
FDA Announces Reforms To Protect Consumers
Posted on August 07, 2009Many Georgians were affected by the recent salmonella outbreak related to peanut butter. Some were sickened by the defective product and others lost jobs in the peanut processing plant that became ground zero for the recall. Now, the Food and...
Second Georgia Motorcycle Accident In A Week Seriously Injures Biker
Posted on August 06, 2009For the second time this week a man has been seriously injured in a Georgia motorcycle accident. A Tennessee man who is a member of the Steelehorseman motorcycle club in Nashville was on his way to the National Biker Roundup...
The City of Atlanta is Hosting the National Biker Roundup
Posted on August 05, 2009This week the City of Atlanta is hosting the National Biker Roundup for motorcycle enthusiasts. Unfortunately, on the second day of the event, one motorcyclist has been killed and five others injured. One remains in critical condition. The motorcycle accident...
Police Chases and Russian Roulette: Death Penalty for the Innocent
Posted on August 04, 2009We read today about a deadly police chase which occurred over the weekend which is both tragic but also unbelievable. In this particular case, the police were chasing a 20-year old male in Pennsylvania allegedly for driving a vehicle which...
Georgia Jury Awards $2 Million to Georgia Truck Driver
Posted on August 01, 2009Georgia injury lawyers often see automobile accidents involving tractor trailer trucks but it is more unusual to see collisions between semi trucks. Nonetheless, a DeKalb County, Georgia jury has awarded $2 million to a Georgia truck driver to compensate him...
Arbitration Exposed As Being Controlled By Big Business
Posted on July 30, 2009Forced arbitration in consumer contracts has become a way of life in the United States. Almost all consumer contracts and purchase agreements contain clauses requiring a person that has been the victim of fraud, negligence, or intentional harmful conduct by...
Georgia Automobile Accident & Truck Accidents - Cellphones and Texting Devices Often The Cause
Posted on July 28, 2009As a Georgia injury lawyer who drives into Atlanta every morning, I see numerous people everyday on the highway who are either talking away on a cell phone or, worse yet, texting on some handheld device. Many of the ones...
Study of Truck Accidents While Drivers Texting
Posted on July 28, 2009The first scientific study of car and truck crashes which occur while drivers are texting has revealed surprisingly data that indicates the risks far exceed previous estimates. Furthermore the risk posed by texting drivers far surpasses the dangers of other...
Georgia Truck Accident Kills Four People
Posted on July 27, 2009A Georgia truck accident has resulted in the death of four people. The truck accident occured on Saturday when the truck going the wrong way on Interstate 95 collided head on with a minivan travelling from New York to Florida....
Cell Phone Usage and Auto Accidents
Posted on July 27, 2009Our Atlanta car accident attorneys frequently review cases in which the negligent driver has been distracted while conversing on a cell phone. Recently, the consumer advocacy groups Public Citizen and the Center for Auto Safety obtained records showing that since...
Georgia Tractor Trailer Accident Injures Two Women
Posted on July 27, 2009Tractor trailer accidents on Georgia highways can result in serious injury or death to innocent motorists. Yesterday, a North Carolina truck driver slammed his vehicle into the back of a pickup truck on GA-2. The tractor trailer pushed the pickup...
Another Police Chase: Another Innocent Person Killed
Posted on July 23, 2009According to news reports out of Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday, July 20, a suspect was on the run from the police when he ran a red light striking another vehicle and killing the innocent driver of that vehicle. The...
Servicemembers Have No Recourse For Malpractice
Posted on July 23, 2009Many servicemembers and dependents reside in Georgia. While servicemembers can receive care at military hospitals they have no rights if they are the victim of malpractice, no matter how egregious. The Feres Doctrine, named after a 1950 Supreme Court decision,...
Death To The Innocent: A Preventable Result of High Speed Pursuit Chases
Posted on July 21, 2009We read in the paper about a tragic death which occurred in Pittsburg, Kansas on July 17 of this year. According to news accounts, deputy Sheriffs in Cherokee County, Kansas were pursuing a driver who had committed traffic violations....
Accutane Removed From Market
Posted on July 21, 2009Accutane, a popular, but dangerous, acne drug has been pulled from the U.S. market by its manufacturer, Roche Holdings, a Swiss company. Currently, Accutane is the subject of about 700 lawsuits alleging that the drug caused inflammatory bowel disease...
Defective Truck Tires & Other Equipment - A Cause Of Some Truck Accidents
Posted on July 20, 2009Georgia truck accident lawyers know that many times a tractor-trailer truck accident occurs as a result of defective equipment, including truck tires. Just this week, the executrix of the estate of a Tennessee man killed in a tractor-trailer accident filed...
Tractor Trailer Accidents - Driver Fatigue Often The Cause
Posted on July 18, 2009Georgia injury lawyers have long since known that driver fatigue may be the number one safety problem in the trucking industry today, and is a factor in nearly 40% of all crashes nationwide. Unfortunately, it is routine practice for many...
Truck Accident Results In Death of Georgia Man
Posted on July 16, 2009As a Georgia injury lawyer for over 20 years, I have represented the dependants of many workers who have died as a result of on-the-job accidents. These Georgia workers compensation claims for death benefits arise from every imaginable type of...
2009 Increase in Number of Police Officers Killed in The Line of Duty
Posted on July 15, 2009According to a report issued by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty jumped twenty percent (20%) during the first six months of 2009. The number of...
$24 Million Awarded in Medical Malpractice Case
Posted on July 14, 2009Georgia injury lawyers know that a medical providers failure to diagnose a condition or even mis-diagnose a condition can, and often does, result in the wrongful death of a patient. A Tennessee state court jury has awarded nearly $24 million...
Medical Malpractice Myths
Posted on July 13, 2009Now that the Obama administration is proposing health care reform, big insurance companies and some doctors associations are attempting to graft so called "tort reform" into the legislation. Georgia residents are already faced with a very restrictive system which affords...
Georgia Boating Accidents
Posted on July 11, 2009Our Georgia injury lawyers have represented clients who have suffered injuries or lost loved ones in boating accidents and collisions. Boating accidents usually occur in our area either on a privately owned vessel or on a personal watercraft (jet ski)...
Medical Malpractice Awards At Record Lows
Posted on July 10, 2009A study released by Public Citizen found that medical malpractice payments were at or near record lows in 2008, but suggests the decline almost certainly indicates that a lower percentage of injured patients received compensation, not that health safety has...
Georgia Truck Accident Results In Wrongful Death of Teen
Posted on July 08, 2009A truck accident near Albany, Georgia has resulted in the wrongful death of a 17 year old Wisconsin teenager. His 16 year old sister was seriously injured and remains in critical condition in an Albany hospital. The boy died after...
One Million Dangerous Playpens Recalled
Posted on July 08, 2009Many Atlanta residents trust the safety of their young children to playpens. However, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is expected today to announce a recall of one million Kolcraft play yards. The recall of the portable playpens, some of which...
Bone Fusion Agent May Be Dangerous
Posted on July 03, 2009A bone growth agent used in thousands of spinal fusion surgeries for neck pain has been linked to complications and higher cost, according to the first nationwide study of the product. Spinal fusion is one option for people with back...
Tylenol and acetaminophen dangers
Posted on July 01, 2009Adverse prescription drug reactions are more common than most consumer are aware, and can have serious consequences, including death. Seeking to address these problems, a Food and Drug Administration panel has recommended new limits on acetaminophen, the main ingredient in...
No Injuries or Deaths Reported Following Georgia Parking Deck Collapse
Posted on June 30, 2009Miraculously, there have been no reported injuries or deaths following an accident in Atlanta, Georgia. Yesterday a portion of a concrete parking deck in downtown Atlanta collapsed near the intersection of Spring and 5th Streets, damaging or destroying 38 vehicles...
Highway and Road Defects - Who Is Liable?
Posted on June 29, 2009Georgia injury lawyers know that many times automobile accidents and tractor trailer truck accidents result from defects in either the design of a roadway or the existing dangerous condition of a roadway. This is particularly true if the roadway is...
MIxed News For Victims Of GM Product Liability Cases
Posted on June 29, 2009Product liability suits, especially those involving autos and trucks, generally involve life altering injuries and death. As a result of the recent bankruptcy of General Motors Corp., many of the pending and future claims involving GM products stood to be...
Parking Deck Collapse
Posted on June 29, 2009Atlanta is the scene of another structural collapse. It has just been reported that a parking deck collapsed in the area of Spring and 5th Streets in the midtown area of Atlanta. At this time there are no reports of...
Zicam Products Alleged To Be Dangerous Products
Posted on June 28, 2009Federal officials are warning consumers to stop using Zicam, a popular cold remedy because they say that it could damage or destroy the users? sense of smell. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received 130 reports of people who...
Judge Rules Grout Cleaner Liability Suits Can Go Forward On Negligence Claims
Posted on June 27, 2009Georgia injury lawyers see people seriously injured by dangerous products of all types. Many dangerous products result in the wrongful death of their users. A grout cleaner which was once sold by Home Depot is one product alleged to have...
Dangerous Products Can Cause Serious Injuries or Death
Posted on June 25, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented many victims of dangerous products. The type and nature of these dangerous products runs the gambit. Products liability in Georgia has arisen primarily as a negligence concept and even today...
Tractor-Trailer Accidents and Driver Fatigue
Posted on June 24, 2009A 70-year old north Georgia man burned to death Saturday after his tractor-trailer left the roadway and caught on fire. Rescue workers attempted to pull the man from the burning truck but were unable to do so in time...
Dangers From MS Drug Tysabri
Posted on June 24, 2009Many drugs which offer promising cures when first introduced later prove to be ineffective or even dangerous. One that falls in the dangerous category is Tysabri, manufactured by Biogen, Inc. Tysarbi is a prescription medicine approved for patients with relapsing...
ATV Liability - Do You Have Insurance Coverage Under Your Homeowners Policy?
Posted on June 23, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have written before about the potential liability one may have for ATV accidents, especially if it involves riding passengers. Not only does the owner of the ATV risk being sued for injuries...
Tractor Trailer Accidents and Driver Fatigue
Posted on June 22, 2009Georgia citizens continue to suffer serious injuries and death in ever increasing numbers on a stretch of Interstate 85 near Newnan, Georgia. Most of these accidents involve tractor-trailers. According to authorities today, one person was killed and another person seriously...
Medical Errors At VA Hospital Concealed
Posted on June 22, 2009Our Atlanta medical malpractice attorneys frequently see cases in which the practices engaged in by physicians are questionable. Yet in many instances the practices are so egregious that one has to wonder how the medical establishment could allow them to...
Representing Children in Serious Injury Cases
Posted on June 19, 2009Over the years, our lawyers have handled many different cases involving serious injuries to children. These injuries arise in a myriad of contexts and are oftentimes heartbreaking. Over the years, we have had serious burn injury cases, dog bite...
Zicam Recalled for Dangerous Effects
Posted on June 17, 2009Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers to stop using Zicam, a popular homeopathic cold remedy, because it could damage or destroy their sense of smell, a condition called anosmia. The Food and Drug Administration received 130 reports...
ATV Accident Results in Serious Injury and Criminal Charge
Posted on June 16, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers have written before that with the growing popularity of ATV?s or All-Terrain Vehicles, serious injury and death cases are on the increase in Georgia, especially among children. Today I read about a tragic case that occurred...
Tire Failure Ruling Defeats Manufacturer's Attempt To Conceal Documents
Posted on June 13, 2009Our Atlanta lawyers recently completed a case involving a tire failure on a truck.. This past Tuesday, in a case being watched nationwide by product-liability attorneys, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court a ruling that...
Medical Malpractice Awards Decrease
Posted on June 10, 2009Medical malpractice claims in Georgia are constantly coming under fire from insurance companies and doctors who allege they raise the costs of medical care through increased insurance costs to doctors. For many years our Atlanta based attorneys have watched as...
Police Chase For Non-Violent Crime Turns Deadly
Posted on June 09, 2009We read yesterday in the paper about a tragic case in Charlotte, N.C. involving a police chase which resulted in the death of an innocent 84-year old woman who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong...
Georgia Wrongful Death Actions:Who Has The Right To Sue? (Part IV)
Posted on June 08, 2009In a wrongful death case where the deceased individual is survived neither by a spouse, child or parent, under Georgia law such a cause of action would vest in the Executor or Administrator of the Estate. In short, there...
Georgia Wrongful Death Actions:Who Has The Right To Sue? (Part III)
Posted on June 07, 2009In Georgia, if an individual loses her or her life due to the negligence of a third party and is not survived either by a spouse or children, the cause of action for the wrongful death of such an...
Consumers May Be Without Remedies Against Auto Manufacturers
Posted on June 07, 2009The Atlanta consumer and product liability lawyers of Finch McCranie LLP have successfully litigated cases against auto manufacturers for serious injury and death caused by defects in their products. Now, as a result of the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler,...
Georgia Wrongful Death Actions:Who Has The Right To Sue? (Part II)
Posted on June 05, 2009In Part I of this series, we set forth the provisions of Georgia law for wrongful death actions where surviving spouses were involved. In this article, we shall address actions by surviving children under Georgia?s wrongful death statute where...
Georgia Health Insurer Accused Of Unfair Practices
Posted on June 05, 2009A lawsuit has been filed by Georgia surgery centers against Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia Inc. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, seeking class action. The lawsuit, like many others around the country attacks the...
Georgia Wrongful Death Actions:Who Has The Right To Sue? (Part I)
Posted on June 04, 2009One of area of confusion to the public is determining who has the right to bring a wrongful death action in Georgia. Because our firm handles many such cases in Atlanta and throughout the State, we have decided to blog...
FDA To Reconsider BPA Decision
Posted on June 04, 2009We receive many inquiries from Atlanta consumers regarding the safety of products apporved by the federal regulatory agencies. During the Bush administration many consumers here in Georgia and elsewhere have expressed concern and bewilderment that certain drugs and products banned...
Forklift Accidents: Usually Serious And Oftentimes Deadly
Posted on June 03, 2009When I was in high school, I was hired as a forklift driver at a textile plant. I was given no training whatsoever, had never operated a forklift and within hours was lifting huge pallets of heavy materials high...
Bus Accident Recommendations By NTSB
Posted on June 01, 2009Bus accidents have been a problem in Atlanta and Georgia for many years. Recently, the lawyers of Finch McCranie LLP were able to secure a very favorable settlement for the most seriously injured survivor in the Bluffton Bus crash which...
Trampolines Recalled
Posted on May 30, 2009Potentially dangerous trampolines which have been sold in the Georgia and Atlanta areas are the subject of a recall. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in cooperaation with Skywalker Holdings announced a voluntary recall of about 60,000 trampolines manufactured in...
Treadmill Accidents Can Cause Serious Injury or Death
Posted on May 28, 2009The Atlanta lawyers of Finch McCranie LLP often see cases in which children are injured on exercise equipment such as treadmills and weight machines. The tragic death of boxer Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter may seem like a freak occurrence, but...
As a Georgia injury lawyer, I read
Posted on May 28, 2009As a Georgia injury lawyer, I read almost everyday about a death or serious personal injuries sustained as a result of an All Terrain Vehicle ATV accident. With the increasing popularity of ATVs it is inevitable that there will be...
Landmark Cigarette Ruling Upheld
Posted on May 27, 2009Last Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington essentially upheld a landmark ruling that found cigarette makers deceived the public for decades about the health hazards of smoking. The Court of Appeals upheld the major elements of a 2006...
Drug Companies Agree To Reimbursement of Taxpayers
Posted on May 26, 2009The attorney general of Alabama has announced that 14 major drug companies will pay Alabama $89 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of defrauding the state Medicaid agency. This lawsuit brought on behalf of the taxpayers of the state...
Product Liability Claims And Other Claims Related To Dangerous Machinery
Posted on May 25, 2009Georgia injury lawyers, handling a claim for a catastrophically injured employee or the family of a deceased employee, our investigation will often reveal that the employee received injuries while working on or around a piece of machinery that caused the...
Drug Manufacturer Accused Of Fraud Against United States
Posted on May 19, 2009The United States Department of Justice and 16 states have joined two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that drug manufacturer Wyeth defrauded the government by offering discounts to hospitals on two of its drugs that it didn't offer to Medicaid. Whistleblower lawsuits...
South Carolina Teenager Seriously Injured After Being Thrown From ATV
Posted on May 19, 2009Georgia and South Carolina injury lawyers are seeing ATV accidents involving serious injury and sometimes death are on the rise with the return of warm weather. Tragically many, if not most are preventable by using common sense and obeying ATV...
Brain Death
Posted on May 18, 2009Our Atlanta based lawyers are constantly involved in cases involving brain injury and brain death. As tragic as these cases are, the families and loved ones are many times faced with the decision whether to cease life support after there...
Lawmakers Hold Hearing on Medical Device Safety Act
Posted on May 18, 2009Defective medical devices can lead to the serious injury or death of innocent people. For this reason Georgia injury lawyers representing victims of defective and dangerous products were dismayed when the Supreme Court decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, held that...
Workers Compensation Injuries - Is There A Premises Liability and Negligent Security Third Party Claims?
Posted on May 15, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP who handle workers compensation cases always investigate the possibility that there is a negligent third party who can be sued and held accountable for the client?s injuries and damages. As any injured...
Congressman?s Death Highlights The Dangers of Operating An ATV
Posted on May 10, 2009As the popularity of ATV?s (all-terrain vehicles) increases the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP see more ATV accidents resulting in death and serious injuries each year. Even experienced riders must be very careful when operating an ATV...
Workers Compensation Injury - Is There A Third Party Liability Case
Posted on May 06, 2009When the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP represent an injured employee in a workers compensation case we always look to see if there is a liable third party that can be sued. Under Georgia law, workers compensation benefits...
Car Roof Crush Standards Increased
Posted on May 06, 2009Many automobile crashes which our Georgia lawyers investigate involve serious injury and deaths which are caused by roof collapses in rollover situations. Tragically, many of these victims would have been less seriously injured or survived had the roof of the...
Limiting The Chance For Serious Injury Or Death From Grinding Wheel Explosions
Posted on May 04, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have previously posted on the danger posed by defective grinding wheels that explode or disintegrate. When a grinding wheel comes apart, it can result in serious eye injury and even death. Although...
Grinding Wheel Failures Can Lead To Serious Injury Or Death
Posted on May 02, 2009Recently an Atlanta eye surgeon told one of the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP that his group sees at least two new patients a month with serious eye injuries caused by grinding wheel accidents. Often times , the...
Bus Accidents Provoke DOT to Review Bus and Motorcoach Safety
Posted on May 01, 2009Bus accidents (or motorcoach accidents) can multiply the loss of life and life-changing injuries. Our Bluffton University baseball team client will never be the same as a result of the bus accident in 2007 that left him permanently injured, and...
Hydroxycut Recalled - May Be Linked To Liver Damage
Posted on May 01, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have handled many products liability cases involving dangerous drugs and consumer products. Last week the FDA announced the recall of Hydroxycut. Government officials warned dieter and body builders to immediately stop using...
Secretary of Transportation Pushes For Child Seat Testing
Posted on May 01, 2009Many Georgia parents employ child safety seats to protect the lives of their children without any reliable data as to the safety of the particular seat model. Now, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that he will urge carmakers...
Liability Insurance Limits for Commercial Trucking Companies:
Posted on April 29, 2009Liability insurance limits for your typical tractor-trailer company, as mandated by federal law, is $750,000.00 in coverage for the protection of innocent members of the motoring public who might be unfortunate enough to be injured by a large tractor-trailer...
Profiles In Courage: Innocent Personal Injury Victims
Posted on April 28, 2009In today?s economic times, we hear a lot of discussion about the problems that people are having financially. While many people are emotionally suffering due to rising unemployment and adverse economic conditions, those who suffer perhaps the most during...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part XVI
Posted on April 27, 2009Rule No. 12 of 12: The successful cross-examiner understands the risks of cross-examination. As set forth above, if an attorney asks a question that he does not know the answer to or asks one question too many, he is...
Electronic Medical Records Can Reduce Errors
Posted on April 27, 2009Over the years our Georgia medical malpractice lawyers have been involved in medical negligence lawsuits involving missing or improperly documented medical records. In an effort to avoid such problems the federal government is pressuring medical professionals and facilities to adopt...
Trucking Companies Subject to Stricter Penalties
Posted on April 26, 2009Our Atlanta truck accident lawyers see many instances in which trucking companies simply ignore or pay little attention to safety rules and regulations designed to protect the motoring public. During the past 15 years, the three-strikes-you're-out rule has become a...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part XV
Posted on April 26, 2009Rule No. 11 of 12: The successful cross-examiner has the ability to make what appears to be complex become simple. In order to adhere to this rule, experienced trial counsel knows that they must use language that layman can...
Injury Victims of Automobile & Truck Accidents and Abusive Bill Collection
Posted on April 25, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP representing victims of trucking accidents, automobile accidents, and workers compensation accidents we often see our clients who cannot work because of serious injuries, fall behind in paying their bills...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part XIV
Posted on April 25, 2009Rule No. 10 of 12: The successful cross-examiner knows how to force an evasive witness to give a responsive answer. When a hostile or evasive witness refuses to answer a question, counsel must be firm and persistent in getting...
Truck Accident Rates Tied To Driver Fatigue
Posted on April 24, 2009Truck drivers operating on the roads of Georgia and across the nation are subject to hours of service restrictions. These restrict the number of hours a driver may operate a truck in a certain time frame. It has been shown...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part XIII
Posted on April 24, 2009Rule No. 9 of 12: The successful cross-examiner has a good beginning and good ending to the cross-examination of the witness. If counsel is prepared through proper investigation and discovery, counsel can start off strong and end strong. A...
Bus Accidents Continue to Kill and Injure
Posted on April 23, 2009Bus accidents were the subject of action taken by The National Transportation Safety Board this week. The NTSB is the federal agency charged with investigating major transportation accidents. On Tuesday, it strongly criticized regulators at the Department of Transportation for...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part XII
Posted on April 23, 2009Rule No. 8 of 12: The successful cross-examiner listens carefully to what the witness says in response to his questions on cross-examination. As set forth above, counsel should know what a witness will say in response to each question...
Caps on Damages For Nursing Home Abuse - What Are They Thinking?
Posted on April 23, 2009In addition to representing victims of trucking accidents and automobile accidents, the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP also represent victims of nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect. including patients who have sustained decubitus ulcers (bed sores), falls...
Ambulance and Truck Collision Leads To Serious Injuries
Posted on April 22, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers we handle all types of automobile accident and trucking accident cases involving serious injury and wrongful death. This week I read about an unusual collision in Carrollton involving an ambulance and a truck. According to the...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part XI
Posted on April 22, 2009Rule No. 7 of 12: The successful cross-examiner listens to the witness?s direct testimony. When a witness is called by the other side to testify against one?s client, one must be very careful to listen to that witness. Even if...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part X
Posted on April 21, 2009Rule No. 6 of 12: The successful cross-examiner stays calm and collected whatever happens. During the testimony of a witness, particularly where the witness is providing very damaging testimony, counsel cannot flinch or otherwise demonstrate through body language that his...
ATV ACCIDENT RESULTS IN DEATH & SERIOUS INJURY
Posted on April 21, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers have written before that with the growing popularity of ATV?s or All-Terrain Vehicles, serious injury and death cases are on the increase in Georgia, especially among children. Yesterday, we read about a 12-year-old Alto, Georgia girl...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part IX
Posted on April 20, 2009Rule No. 5 of 12: The successful cross-examiner never asks an open-ended question such as ?why? unless it does not care what the answer is. In discussing rule 4 above, we gave a good example of why you do...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part VIII
Posted on April 19, 2009Unless counsel is fully prepared, has fully investigated the case and has conducted necessary discovery, this rule is difficult to follow. On the other hand, if counsel knows everything about the case then there is no reason why this...
Dangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined
Posted on April 19, 2009We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands America Inc. consented to pay a $1.1 million civil penalty for failing to promptly report promptly dangerous magnetic...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part VII
Posted on April 18, 2009Rule No. 3 of 12: The successful cross-examiner avoids the appearance of pettiness, nit-picking or unfairness to the witness. Even though we practice in an adversarial system, there is no necessity to be adversarial with the cross-examination of each...
Raptiva Withdrawn From Market
Posted on April 17, 2009Raptiva, a drug manufactured by Roche HoldingAG's Genentech Inc. and marketed for the treatment of psoriasis has been linked to a rare but often fatal brain disorder. As a result of these findings, Genentech has issued a voluntary recall of...
Physical & Sexual Abuse At Georgia Day Care Centers
Posted on April 17, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented, and continue to represent, victims of day care child abuse. The statistics on physical child abuse are alarming. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of children are physically abused...
GM Recalls Dangerous Cars
Posted on April 16, 2009Many Georgia residents may be driving General Motors cars which have a dangerous propensity to ignite in flames. General Motors and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced yesterday that the possibility of engine fires has prompted General Motors to...
Defective Cardiac Defibrillator May Result in Death
Posted on April 16, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented many victims of defective products which have caused serious injury and sometimes death. Recently, there was a recall on a device meant to save lives, a defibrillator. Each year 250,000...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination Part VI
Posted on April 15, 2009Rule No. 2 of 12: The successful cross-examiner always has a purpose for each question that is asked or not asked. When preparing a cross-examination of any particular witness, counsel has to consider what they want to say about...
Deadly Reverse Car Accidents
Posted on April 15, 2009The news media in Georgia frequently reports on tragic accidents in which young children are killed by cars traveling in reverse. Many times these accidents occur when a parent is backing out of a driveway or garage. According to data...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part V
Posted on April 14, 2009In our prior four (4) entries, concerning the art of cross-examination, we have discussed the objectives of cross-examination and have suggested that there are four (4) alternative purposes for successful cross-examination that should be considered by trial counsel...
Seat Belt Use Can Prevent Serious Injury and Death In Truck Accidents
Posted on April 14, 2009The Georgia Injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented thousands of victims involved in automobile accidents and trucking/tractor trailer accidents. Regretfully many have resulted in serious, life changing injuries and some have resulted in death...
Car Accidents In Small Vehicle Increase Dangers
Posted on April 14, 2009Our Georgia automobile accident attorneys often review crashes involving very small cars, sometimes referred to as ?micro cars.? We have frequently noticed that there seems to be a correlation between the severity of injuries suffered in car accidents and the...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination Part IV
Posted on April 13, 2009In this our fourth entry, we discuss again the objectives of cross-examination. We have talked about obtaining evidence which is favorable to one?s case, impeaching or corroborating the testimony of another witness in the case and discrediting the testimony...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part III
Posted on April 12, 2009The third alternative objective of cross-examination is to discredit the testimony of the witness being called by your opponent. This can be done in several ways. The most traditional way is to impeach the witness by proof of conviction...
What Brain Injury Lawyers Need To Know About TBI And Depression
Posted on April 12, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented many victims of traumatic brain injury resulting from serious automobile accidents, tractor trailer accidents, workers compensation accidents, ATV/All Terrain Vehicle accidents, motorcycle accidents and premises liability accidents...
Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination Part II
Posted on April 11, 2009In our first article on the art of cross-examination, we addressed the first objective of cross-examination, that being an effort to obtain evidence which is favorable to one?s case without attacking the witness. The second alternative purpose of cross-examination,...
Many Tractor-Trailer Accidents Are Related To Drivers? Poor Health
Posted on April 10, 2009As a Georgia injury lawyer, I have represented a lot of truck drivers over the years in workers compensation claims, usually involving back injuries. Many of these drivers were well into their sixties and many had significant health problems which...
Trial Techniques: The Art of Cross-Examination - Part I
Posted on April 10, 2009This entry will be the beginning of a series of blogs on trial techniques used by successful trial attorneys in the representation of their clients. The art of cross-examination is just that, an art, not a science. To be a...
Dangerous ?UTV? Recall Following 46 Deaths
Posted on April 09, 2009Yamaha Motor Corporation, the manufacturer of Rhino off road vehicles, has recalled the same because of safety issues associated with its Rhino 450, 660 and 700 models. Owners of these Utility Terrain Vehicles (UTVs) are being warned not to...
Home Propane Gas Explosions Can Cause Injuries and Death
Posted on April 07, 2009One of the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP recently got a case involving a propane explosion which completely burned and destroyed the client?s home. The explosion could easily have resulted in the death or serious injury of the...
Tractor Trailer Accidents In Georgia
Posted on April 06, 2009Georgia injury lawyers know well the serious injuries and wrongful deaths people suffer as a result of motor vehicle accidents; however, perhaps the most catastrophic accident is one involving tractor trailers. Some of the reasons for trucking accidents being such...
Charter Bus Accident in Atlanta Repeats Bluffton University Bus Accident on Interstate 75
Posted on April 02, 2009As the lawyers who represented the most seriously injured survivor of the March 2007 Bluffton University bus accident on I-75 in Atlanta, we were greatly disturbed today to hear that two charter buses from Detroit reportedly have crashed at exactly...
Drug or Prescription Errors Can Cause Death and Serious Injury
Posted on March 30, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers, we often get calls about pharmacy mistakes and prescription errors being committed by medical providers, including drug stores. Many times, the mistakes are caught before any damage is done; however, sometimes serious injury or death occurs...
Medical Device Dangers Are Avoidable
Posted on March 27, 2009Our attorneys have seen many cases in which patients are injured, sometimes severely, by healthcare professional in Georgia hospitals committing careless and preventable errors or by medical device defects. The ECRI Institute recently released its annual list of top hospital...
LIABILITY FOR ATV DEATHS AND SERIOUS INJURIES-ARE YOU AT RISK?
Posted on March 26, 2009As a Georgia injury lawyer I read more and more about ATV accidents involving serious injuries and deaths, especially among children. Although there have been dozens of tragic deaths, I recall that in 2003 five Georgia children died after a...
Serious Injury & Death Can Result From Hydroplaning on Georgia Highways
Posted on March 25, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers we have seen automobile accident and tractor trailer or trucking accidents that occur for a multitude of reasons. Lately however, we have seen a number of serious accidents that have occurred on Georgia highways or roads...
ATV DEATHS AND INJURIES ARE ON THE RISE
Posted on March 25, 2009With the growing popularity of ATV?s or All-Terrain Vehicles, serious injury and death cases are on the increase in Georgia, especially among children. Believe it or not, the only legal requirements governing ATV operation in Georgia are that they have...
Worker?s Compensation Claims Overview
Posted on March 24, 2009In Georgia, worker?s compensation is essentially an insurance program regulated by the state and required of most employers. Worker?s compensation pays medical bills and lost wages for employees who have had work related accidents resulting in illness or injury...
How To Get The Best Settlement In A Personal Injury Case
Posted on March 24, 2009This past month our firm handled two different cases which both illustrate how to get the best possible settlement for a client in a personal injury case. It is oftentimes said that many cases settle on the courthouse steps. This...
Victims Of Truck Accidents Need To Hire Lawyers Immediately
Posted on March 23, 2009Our Georgia truck accident lawyersThere are many causes of truck accidents. Even though large trucks and drivers are governed by state and federal laws and regulations designed to make them safer, the number of large trucks involved in fatal crashes....
Victims of Medical Malpractice Are Still Victims of Georgia?s ?Tort Reform?
Posted on March 23, 2009As a Georgia injury lawyer I continue to be outraged by the ?tort reform? laws passed by the mostly Republican, pro business legislature in this State. Most ordinary citizens, Republican and Democrat, have no idea what the medical profession, insurance...
Should High Speed Police Chases Be Banned ?
Posted on March 22, 2009The simple answer to the question posed is - No. Some police chases are necessary in order to protect the interests of the public. If someone through a violent act commits the crime of car jacking, is a cop killer...
Dangerous Infant Cribs To Be Banned
Posted on March 20, 2009Over the years our product liability lawyers have been involved in cases in Georgia in which infants are tragically killed by crib and toy dangers. Now in an effort that we applaud, major manufacturers of infant cribs have agreed on...
Minor Falls Can Lead To Severe Brain Injury
Posted on March 18, 2009Our Atlanta lawyers see many cases involving serious head injuries which at first appear to be minor or nonexistent. The recent report about actress Natasha Richardson who fell at a Canadian ski slope is a prime example. According to reports,...
Post Accident Vision Problems Could Be Sign Of Brain Injury
Posted on March 16, 2009Georgia injury lawyers who have handled automobile accidents, trucking accidents, and even workers compensation cases, where a person has suffered a serious injury to the head, often hear their clients complain about the same symptoms. We recently represented a women...
Post Accident Visual Problems Could Be Sign of Brain Injury
Posted on March 16, 2009Georgia injury lawyers who have handled automobile accidents, trucking accidents, and even workers compensation cases, where a person has suffered a serious injury to the head, often hear their clients complain about the same symptoms. We recently represented a women...
Nursing Home Elder Abuse and Neglect
Posted on March 14, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented many victims of nursing home abuse over the years. With our aging population, we expect the numbers of these cases to increase. Nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect of...
Defibrillator Recall
Posted on March 12, 2009Emergency defibrillators in public gathering places have become common throughout Georgia. Now, about 14,000 external defibrillators are being recalled after 39 reported incidents, including two that involved patient deaths. The recall was announced Tuesday by manufacturer Welch Allyn...
Dangers Of Industry Payments To Doctors
Posted on March 09, 2009Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia has been involved in a controversy concerning undisclosed payments to the head of the psychiatry department by drug companies. The danger that these financial relationships between physicians and drug and medical device manufactures can pose...
Bowflex Recalls Dangerous Gyms
Posted on March 06, 2009Many Bowflex exercise machines are found in homes and gyms throughout Georgia. Now, Nautilus Inc, the manufacturer is recalling 78,000 of its Bowflex Ultimate 2 Home Gyms. There are reports that the seat rails can unlatch causing potentially serious injury...
Peanut Corp. Of America Salmonella Strain Has Also Been Linked To Texas Plant
Posted on February 27, 2009Motorcycle Accidents Usually Result In Serious Injuries
Posted on February 26, 2009The motorcycle accident lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have represented many motorcycle riders over the years who have been seriously injured in collisions involving automobiles. Some result in brain injuries and others involve amputation of limbs. Just in the last...
Georgia Residents May Be Affected By FDA Drug Ban
Posted on February 26, 2009The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has prohibited Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., India?s largest drug manufacturer, from introducing new generic drugs from one of its factories after it falsified data about products? shelf life. Yesterday, the FDA announced that a facility...
The Life Altering Consequences Of Traumatic Amputations
Posted on February 25, 2009Regrettably, here in our office, we have handled many serious personal injury cases involving traumatic amputations, usually arising in the context of a bad car accident or tractor-trailer collision. Just this past week, we settled a case involving a...
Signs And Symptoms Of A Traumatic Brain Injury
Posted on February 25, 2009The Georgia Injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have seen many automobile accidents and tractor trailer accidents which have left victims with a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Some clients have suffered from major, catastrophic brain injury while others...
Georgia Motorcycle Accident Claims Life
Posted on February 24, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers we see many wrongful death cases from motorcycle accidents. Most motorcycle accidents seem to involve young drivers; however, that is not always the case. In the last two weeks, a Georgia man was killed in a...
Unsafe Truck Drivers: Suing The Employer Trucking Company
Posted on February 23, 2009Interstate trucking companies are governed by the safety regulations found at 49 C.F.R. §§ 300 through 399. Trucks engaged solely in intrastate commerce are governed by the corresponding rules in each state?s regulatory Code. Many states, such as Georgia,...
Medical Device Maker Under Investigation
Posted on February 22, 2009Stryker, a leading maker of medical devices is reportedly the subject of a Justice Department investigation into Stryker?s marketing of human bone growth products. The investigation has already resulted in guilty pleas by former company sales representatives...
Legal Maneuvering In The Georgia Peanut Salmonella Case
Posted on February 22, 2009It was announced last week that The Peanut Corporation of America has decided to file for bankruptcy. Under bankruptcy law, one may not sue a company that has filed for bankruptcy protection. Accordingly, with respect to the wrongful death actions...
Dangerous and Defective Products
Posted on February 20, 2009The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have handled many products liability cases involving many different defective and dangerous products, including a defective and dangerous deer stand. When these products fail, catastrophic injury or death often results...
Children and ATVs - A Dangerous Combination
Posted on February 19, 2009Every year the Georgia injury attorneys at Finch McCranie, LLP get calls about people being seriously injured on All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), especially children. Just last year we had a wrongful death case involving a minor and an ATV. In...
Post Trauma Vision Syndrome-A Common Phenomenon
Posted on February 18, 2009Recently, we had a client whose vehicle was rear-ended at a high rate of speed. She immediately began to experience visual problem, including double vision which lasted for about two weeks. Many people involved in a serious automobile accident experience...
Traumatic Brain Injury
Posted on February 17, 2009Not a month goes by that the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP don?t run into serious automobile accident or tractor trailer accident cases where our client has sustained a traumatic brain injury to some degree. These can occur...
How Do I Find An Experienced Lawyer And Attorney For A
Posted on February 17, 2009We have blogged before about the need for consumers to protect their interests when trying to retain an attorney. Truck accident cases present many obstacles for attorneys who do not regularly practice in the area. The Federal Motor Carrier...
Georgia Uninsured - Underinsured Coverage Changes
Posted on February 16, 2009Georgia law relating to uninsured automobile insurance has changed effective January 1, 2009. We have previously written about the importance of uninsured/underinsured (UM) coverage. Essentially this is coverage which protects you and your family if you are injured in a...
Illegal Trucking--Truckers Who Refuse to Violate Safety Regulations (FMCSR) Prevent Trucking Accidents
Posted on February 16, 2009A trucker was fired recently when he refused his boss's instructions to drive longer hours than the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) allow, and to falsify his log books. He came to my friend's office today to ask for...
Unethical Health Insurance Practices
Posted on February 15, 2009Our Atlanta, Georgia lawyers see health insurance companies deny valid claims on a daily basis, depriving policyholders of necessary medical care to which they are entitled. Now, a California health insurer has been caught red handed. The insurer, Health Net,...
Contaminated Peanut Salmonella Cases: A Georgia Scandal
Posted on February 15, 2009The more one reads about the problems with the products distributed by the Peanut Corporation of America, the more one realizes that there were serious management problems with that Company?s plant in Blakely, Georgia. According to published reports, when...
New Emergency Room Guidelines For Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Posted on February 15, 2009As Georgia injury lawyers we, at Finch McCranie, LLP, often see victims of automobile accidents and trucking accidents who sustain trauma to the head. The care they get in the minutes and hours following can be crucial to their recovery....
?How Much Is My Personal Injury Case Worth??
Posted on February 14, 2009The above questions are often asked by clients who have been seriously injured in an automobile case or a trucking collision. Regrettably, there are some attorneys out there who will give unrealistic ?pie in the sky? answers to such...
Legionnaires Disease At Atlanta Hospital
Posted on February 12, 2009An outbreak of Legionnaires? disease has been confirmed at Atlanta, Georgia?s Grady Memorial Hospital. Water tests confirmed today that two units at Grady Memorial Hospital were the source of the bacteria that caused Legionnaires. Four patients have been sickened by...
Georgia Parents and Children Affected By Vaccine Rulings
Posted on February 12, 2009Many Georgia parents, and thousands of parents across the country who have children suffering from autism, received bad legal news today. They had claimed that childhood vaccines had caused their children to develop autism. In a long awaited decision, a...
Finding The Right Georgia Lawyer For Your Case
Posted on February 12, 2009On the way to work today I saw an automobile accident that had just occurred. A lady had been rear-ended by an automobile on the interstate highway. The cars were very badly damaged and it was clear that one of...
Georgia Drivers Beware: Uninsured Drivers On The Increase
Posted on February 05, 2009We heard a radio piece on National Public Radio the week before last about the rise in uninsured motorists nationwide. It is now estimated that as many as 16% of the motoring public are driving without insurance. In today?s...
Georgia Truck Drivers Must Exercise Extreme Caution In Bad Weather
Posted on February 04, 2009The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations specify that commercial truck drivers must use ?extreme caution? in hazardous weather conditions. Like many other states, Georgia?s Commercial Drivers Manual provides that truckers should slow down as much as one-third (1/3) of...
Atlanta, Georgia Lawyers Support MADD Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving--and the Injuries and Deaths It Causes
Posted on February 02, 2009Our personal injury and wrongful death attorneys in Atlanta, Georgia support MADD's Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving. If you have not done so, please go to Parade magazine's website at www.parade.com/drunkdriving, and vote "YES" in the poll asking this question:...
Hospitalized Patients Cannot Identify Treating Doctors
Posted on February 02, 2009Our Atlanta lawyers interview potential clients on a daily basis concerning their injuries and hospitalizations. Many times, potential clients, even those who have been hospitalized for long periods, cannot tell us the name or names of the doctors who treated...
New Swimming Pool Safety Requirements Help Prevent Drowning
Posted on February 01, 2009Every spring and summer as swimming pools open for the season, we read about tragic drownings, often involving children. Statistics show that drowning and near drowning are a leading cause of death and brain injury. Many of these unfortunate incidents...
Bus Accident Near Hoover Dam Kills Seven--And Follows Atlanta, Georgia Bluffton University Crash As Another Example of Why Seat Belts on Motorcoaches Can Prevent Deaths and Serious Personal Injuries
Posted on January 31, 2009Since our Atlanta, Georgia personal injury lawyers represent the most seriously injured survivor of the Bluffton University bus accident in March 2007, we have written previously why it is an outrage that seat belts are not required on buses in...
Nursing Home Rating Scale - A Great Consumer Tool
Posted on January 30, 2009In addition to representing victims of trucking accidents and automobile accidents, Finch McCranie, LLP also represents victims of nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect. including patients who have sustained decubitus ulcers (bed sores), falls and brutality in nursing homes...
Georgia's Ante Litem Notice Requirement - Some Changes Proposed
Posted on January 29, 2009Georgia injury attorneys are aware that in all cases where you are seeking money damages against a municipality on account of injuries to a person you must send them an ante litem notice within six months of the event. Many...
Georgia Jury Awards $1.25 Million for Neglect by Nursing Home
Posted on January 28, 2009The lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have seen many different types of injuries result from being in various nursing homes. Some injuries are the result of being assaulted by nursing home staff or other patients and others are the result...
Georgia Senator Introduces a Bill To Regulate Television Advertising By Lawyers
Posted on January 26, 2009The personal injury law firm of Finch McCranie, LLP has been representing victims of truck accidents and automobile accidents for over 40 years. We do not advertise on television and have no intention of doing so. Unseemly television advertising has....
Two Georgians Injured By Peanut Product Salmonella Food Poisoning
Posted on January 25, 2009Our Georgia injury lawyers know that food poisoning cases can result in serious injury, and sometimes death. Just this week, federal officials announced that two Georgia citizens have been poisoned by salmonella found in peanut products and they warned consumers...
Uninsured Motorist Coverage And Georgia Drivers:
Posted on January 25, 2009We have blogged before about the importance of uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage. Because of the economic problems being currently experienced by our Country, such coverage is probably now more important than ever. Many people who are experiencing economic problems are...
Georgia?s Emergency Rooms-A Safe Haven For Medical Malpractice
Posted on January 24, 2009Georgia injury lawyers are acutely aware of the so-called ?tort reform? changes in the law which has limited and in some cases eliminated the rights of victims of medical malpractice. Unfortunately, most Georgia citizens are unaware that since 2005, emergency...
Insurance Limits for Georgia Trucking Companies Are Grossly Inadequate
Posted on January 23, 2009In order to operate a interstate motor carrier on the highways of this country, a motor carrier must have the minimum of $750,000.00 in liability insurance coverage. If such a trucking company causes an accident then, at least, the...
Atlanta Police Chase Results In Death
Posted on January 23, 2009We read last week about another tragic ending to a police chase case in Atlanta on January 15, 2009. Unlike many other such matters where the death is not worth it from a societal standpoint, this case appears to...
Consumers of Dangerous Drugs Have Uphill Battle-Doctrine of Federal Preemption Protects Drug Companies
Posted on January 23, 2009Like most Georgia injury lawyers, we are seeing more and more dangerous drug cases being dismissed because of the doctrine of federal preemption. An example of this came to our attention recently. A Kentucky man developed a drug-induced neurological disease...
Bike-Car Accidents Often Result In Death Or Serious Injury
Posted on January 22, 2009The injury lawyers in our firm have seen over the years that bicycle-car accidents can have serious consequences for the cyclist and often involve death or, at a minimum serious personal injury. A recent verdict demonstrates the kind of traumatic...
Atlanta Trucking Accidents Decreased by Simple Safety Regulations
Posted on January 22, 2009Here in Atlanta and throughout the country a simple safety regulation has saved many lives with respect to dangers posed by trucks on our interstate highways. The safety regulation we refer to here is the conspicuity tape that one...
Brain Injuries and Death Often Result From Falls
Posted on January 21, 2009As Georgia personal injury lawyers we have represented many people who have died or sustained serious injuries as a result of falling. Many of them are senior citizens and many of the accidents are a result of dangerous conditions caused...
Drunk Driving Statistics Released
Posted on January 21, 2009At least every week the Atlanta media carries a story concerning a wreck in which alcohol and drunk driving are a factor. The lawyers at Finch McCranie LLP see entirely too many cases in which alcohol or drunk driving cause...
Atlanta Consumers Affected By Recall of Play Yards
Posted on January 18, 2009The Atlanta based lawyers with Finch McCranie LLP frequently receive calls about children injured by products specifically designed for their use. Last Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC, recalled 200,000 potentially deadly Fisher-Price's Rainforest play yards...
Georgia Connection To Salmonella Outbreak
Posted on January 18, 2009The current salmonella outbreak has a Georgia connection. The Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that peanut butter and peanut paste made from ground roasted peanuts, manufactured in Peanut Corp.'s Blakely, Georgia, plant were found to contain the bacteria...
Georgia Governor Proposal LInked To Medical Device Approval Which Was Slammed By GAO Report
Posted on January 16, 2009The Governor of Georgia has proposed legislation endorsing a system that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) castigated in a report issued yesterday. The GAO concluded that almost twenty years after Congress directed that all high-tech medical devices be subjected to...
Dangerous Crib Recall
Posted on January 14, 2009The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that about 535,000 Stork Craft Baby Cribs have been recalled. These cribs pose an entrapment and suffocation risk. The CPSC has instructed customers to stop using the products immediately. The cribs were made by...
Drug Maker May Enter Record Settlement With Government
Posted on January 14, 2009Eli Lilly, the drug company, according to a report in the New York times, is expected to agree as soon as Thursday to pay $1.4 billion to settle criminal and civil charges that it illegally marketed its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa...
Deaths Linked To Salmonella in Peanut Butter
Posted on January 13, 2009The salmonella outbreak across the nation has been potentially traced to peanut butter. A recall has been issued for peanut butter distributed by King Nut Companies of Solon, Ohio. The peanut butter was supplied only through food service providers and...
Truck Accident Cases and Destruction of Evidence
Posted on January 09, 2009Our truck accident lawyers see many instances in which truck drivers and trucking companies destroy evidence after the collision. The law has fashioned a remedy for this type of conduct - spoliation. Spoliation refers to the destruction or failure to...
Salmonella Outbreak in Georgia
Posted on January 08, 2009Our lawyers receive numerous calls concernig foodborne illnesses, particularly those contracted in restuarants. Now, Georgia is among the 42 states that have been struck with a salmonella outbreak, with five people taken ill and one requiring hospitalization, according to officials...
Canadian Citizens Needing Lawyers for Personal Injuries and Wrongful Death Cases in United States: A Bittersweet Relationship
Posted on January 07, 2009Our U.S. law firm celebrates Canada's Thanksgiving Day in October for a reason. When some Canadian citizens suffered tragic injuries and deaths in a tractor-trailer accident in Georgia some years ago, a Canadian lawyer contacted me to represent his parents,...
Defective Medical Devices Protected By Regulators
Posted on January 07, 2009Dangerous and defective medical devices pose a real and present danger to patients everyday in the Unites States. In many cases the results are debilitating injuries or death. Recently, the United States Supreme Court, at the urging of the Bush...
Aviation Accident Lawsuit Over Another Preventable Airplane Crash
Posted on January 06, 2009Last week we told the story of a recurring tragedy--a preventable aviation accident that took the lives of all on board--in a wrongful death lawsuit we filed last week. The story of this airplane crash is yet another disturbing example...
Defective Fans Subject of Fine By USCPSC
Posted on January 05, 2009Portable fans have been overheating and causing fires. Now, a company which manufactures these dangerous products will pay a $500,000 fine for not quickly reporting these problems. Lasko Products received 42 related complaints involving nine injuries and property damage from...
Car Wreck Fatalities Involving Alcohol Impaired Young Drivers
Posted on January 02, 2009Fatal car wrecks involving alcohol impaired young drivers are a major concern, especially around the Christmas and New Years holidays. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), recently released a study involving alcohol related deaths from crashes involving 21-24 year...
Credit Card Rules Protect Consumers
Posted on December 27, 2008Consumers have received long overdue protections from abusive practices by credit card issuers . In enacting the most sweeping changes to credit cards in decades, federal regulators on Thursday approved new rules to crack down on unfair and deceptive practices...
Van Accidents Continue To Kill and Injure
Posted on December 27, 2008Van accidents continue to be a major cause of death and injury on the nation?s roadways. Our Atlanta injury lawyers are keenly aware of these dangers. Fifteen-passenger vans typically have seating positions for a driver and 14 passengers. They are...
New Credit Card Rules Protect Consumers
Posted on December 25, 2008Consumers received long overdue protections from abusive practices by credit card issuers yesterday. In enacting the most sweeping changes to credit cards in decades, federal regulators on Thursday approved new rules to crack down on unfair and deceptive practices by...
Dangerous Trucking Regulations Enacted
Posted on December 24, 2008Our truck accident lawyers regularly investigate and pursue cases in which heavy truck drivers cause serious injury and death by driving while fatigued. The pressure on drivers to drive in this condition is enormous. The more miles driven the more...
Construction Accident Lawyers Approach to Atlanta Botanical Gardens Bridge Collapse
Posted on December 22, 2008The tragedy of preventable construction accidents was repeated last week at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, a beautiful area near my home enjoyed by young and old alike. News reports have described the horror of one dead, and eighteen injured, many...
Nursing Home Quality Ratings
Posted on December 21, 2008Abuse of elderly and disabled persons is one of the most disturbing matters our Atlanta based attorneys see. A report issued last Thursday by the Centers for Medicare and Services has revealed that almost 22 percent of the nation's nearly...
Botanical Garden Bridge Collapse
Posted on December 19, 2008A construction collapse involving a bridge was reported this morning at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Unfortunately, there appears to be one death and many serious injuries. Our lawyers have investigated and filed lawsuits in numerous construction collapse cases...
Desplome del Puente en los Jardines Botánicos de Atlanta (Botanical Garden Bridge)
Posted on December 19, 2008Un desplome de construcción que implica un puente fue informado esta mañana en los Jardines Botánicos de Atlanta. Desafortunadamente, parece que había una muerte y muchas heridas graves. Nuestros abogados han investigado y han archivado pleitos en numerosos casos de...
Consumer Interests Boosted By Decision
Posted on December 18, 2008Consumer protection got an unexpected boost this week when the United States Supreme announced its decision in Altria Group v. Good. In a surprising decision that could have wide-ranging impact, the Supreme Court held that federal law neither expressly or...
Dangerous Drug Warning
Posted on December 17, 2008Dangerous drugs have been placed into the stream of commerce by manufacturers for years without warnings. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the manufacturer of two drugs commonly used before colonoscopies to add warnings to the products...
Accutane Drug Trial Results in A Thirteen Million Dollar Verdict
Posted on December 16, 2008A New Jersey jury recently awarded nearly $13 million to three acne drug users who developed severe inflammatory bowel disease after taking the medication. The drug, Accutane, is manufactured by Hoffman-La Roche. The three plaintiffs are Florida residents who used...
Escalator Injuries Increase
Posted on December 07, 2008Escalator injuries are increasing at an alarming rate. Our Georgia injury lawyers frequently review cases in which persons have been injured by malfunctioning or improperly designed escalators. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Sunday concerning this increase in injuries, especially among...
HIPAA Bars Insurance Defense Lawyers From Informally Communicating With Injury Victim?s Physicians
Posted on December 04, 2008As attorneys representing injury victims of automobile accidents, tractor tailor truck accidents and medical malpractice claims we have had many occasions where the insurance company lawyer contacts our client?s own doctor to talk about the case without our knowledge...
Dangerous Toys Remain In Market
Posted on November 30, 2008Dangerous toys containing harmful chemicals have long been a problem in the United States. The United States Congress recently passed a law banning the use of a plastic softening chemical known as phthalates in certain consumer products, including toys...
Truck Driver Dies After Tractor Trailer Accident In Georgia
Posted on November 26, 2008A Delaware truck driver met his death after crashing his tractor-trailer into some trees alongside Interstate 95 about 11 miles inside the Georgia state line. According to authorities 54-year-old Robert Earl Webb may have fallen asleep, but he also had...
Fatal Motorcycle Wreck Involving Georgia State Trooper Under Investigation
Posted on November 25, 2008Our attorneys sometimes represent people who have been injured by employees of the State of Georgia in automobile accidents or truck accidents. Cases against the State of Georgia or its employees are governed by the Georgia Tort Claims Act. For...
Student Killed In Automobile Accident Trying To Avoid Debris In Roadway
Posted on November 24, 2008As serious injury lawyers we are increasing getting calls from victims of motor vehicle accidents caused by debris on Georgia?s highways and even Interstate highways. It is bad enough to come up on road debris in an automobile but it...
Patient Abuse in Healthcare Facilities
Posted on November 24, 2008Abuse of patients in medical or mental facilities is a major problem in the United States. Our attorneys frequently handle cases in which patients have suffered physical or sexual abuse at the hands of facility staff or other patients. These...
Motorcycle Passenger Death Results In Operator Being Charged
Posted on November 23, 2008Our Georgia attorneys often represent the drivers of motor vehicles who have been injured in collsions but sometimes the passengers are injured as a result of the negligence of the host driver. Just this week, we read that a Georgia...
City of Columbus, Georgia Pays $175,000 To Settle Injury Lawsuit
Posted on November 22, 2008As Georgia lawyers handling automobile accident and truck accident cases we have litigated many such cases against Georgia municipalities. I recently read about a case where a man and his wife in Columbus, Georgia filed a personal injury lawsuit against...
Fatigued Truck Driver Regulations Endanger Public
Posted on November 21, 2008Truck drivers are required by Federal Regulations to limit the amount of hours during which they can drive in one day. This regulation is enacted to attempt to prevent serious injury and death caused by fatigued truck drivers. This is...
Physician Payments From Drug Manufacturers
Posted on November 21, 2008Another prominent psychiatrist has been exposed for taking payments from drug manufacturers. According to the New York Times, Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin who served as the host of public radio?s popular ?The Infinite Mind? program earned at least $1.3 million...
Police Officer Injured In Motorcycle Accident Awarded $750,000 in Damages
Posted on November 21, 2008A Cobb County, Georgia policeman who was struck by another officer?s motorcycle has been awarded $750, 000 by a Fulton County Superior Court jury for head injuries that only emerged several months after the motorcycle accident. The winning patrolman was...
Window Blinds Recalled
Posted on November 20, 2008Window blinds sold under the IKEA and Green Mountain Vista labels were the subject of a recall announced today by The Consumer Product Safety Commission. About 677,300 window blinds and shades sold in the United States were subject to the...
Defective Products, Burn Injuries and Fire Cases: A Deadly Combination
Posted on November 20, 2008Our firm has handled several tragic wrongful death cases involving children who have died in fires caused by defective products such as a space heater or air purifier. Each year, approximately 500 children under age 14 are killed in...
Yamaha Rhino Utility Terrain Vehicle Rollovers - Unsafe at any Speed?
Posted on November 19, 2008It was learned last week that Federal safety officials are investigating the Yamaha Rhino, which has been linked to 30 deaths. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) decision to investigate the Yamaha Rhino was based on accident and death reports...
Brain Injury - An Often Overlooked & Invisible Injury
Posted on November 18, 2008Last month there was a meeting in Atlanta of The Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America and The Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. One of our trucking injury attorneys attended that meeting where there was a presentation on Traumatic Brain...
Skin Warning Issued about Alcoholism Therapy Drug
Posted on November 16, 2008As Georgia injury lawyers we often see people who have been injured by dangerous prescription drugs. The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is now warning doctors about severe skin reactions in alcoholism patients who use Vivitrol, an injectable treatment made and...
Insurance Industry Tricks
Posted on November 15, 2008According to a report by the American Assocaition for Justice, the U.S. insurance industry has trillions of dollars in assets, enjoys average profits of over $30 billion a year, and pays its CEOs more than any other industry. But insurance...
Traumatic Brain Injury- Georgia Motorcycle Accidents
Posted on November 14, 2008In November of 2000, while ballots were being counted in Florida, I stood in the trauma unit of the Orlando Regional Medical Center with my daughter who had been assaulted. Over the month she was there, one helicopter after another...
Serious Accidents -Traumatic Brain Injury
Posted on November 13, 2008In our Georgia injury practice our lawyers have seen many serious accidents, including automobile accidents and truck accidents, which result in brain injury of varying degrees. Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI?s) contribute to a substantial number of deaths and cases of...
Feeling Unusually Fatigued after Brain Injury?
Posted on November 12, 2008Over the years, we have noticed that client?s who have suffered a brain injury as a result of an automobile accident or truck accident often complain about feeling unusually fatigued or tired. An interesting study confirms that following a...
Arbitration Clause Stricken By Court of Appeals
Posted on November 12, 2008The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling which begins to chip away at the anti-consumer arbitration clauses used by many credit card companies to deny justice to consumers. The court held that plaintiffs could not be...
Truck Accidents During Adverse Weather Conditions
Posted on November 12, 2008It has been estimated that 13% of all truck collisions in this country occur during bad weather conditions. Obviously, on many days it will rain, sleet, or snow. On certain days, fog conditions are also likely to exist in...
Spinal Cord Injury in Georgia
Posted on November 11, 2008Georgia injury lawyers who represent victims of spinal cord injury (SCI) see the devasting results of truck accidents, automobile accidents and on-the-job or workers compensation accidents. According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, as many as 450,000 people in...
Georgia Automobile Insurance - Protect Yourself
Posted on November 10, 2008In Georgia it seems more and more that there is not enough insurance to take care of people hurt in automobile accidents. As Georgia injury lawyers representing the injured victims of automobile accidents and truck accidents we are acutely aware...
Georgia Injury Lawyers Will Closely Watch A Dangerous Drugs Case
Posted on November 08, 2008Georgia injury lawyers will closely watch an upcoming U.S. Supreme case having to do with dangerous drugs and the doctrine of pre-emption. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today in a case that has major implications for consumers...
Georgia Nursing Home Abuse & Negligence Cases
Posted on November 07, 2008For Georgia lawyers handling nursing home abuse and negligence cases, we are seeing new litigation hurdles to overcome. Nursing home owners are creating new corporate structures to disguise the actual ownership of the nursing homes. It is a "corporate shell...
81% of Georgia Nursing Homes are Deficient in Quality of Care and Other Services
Posted on November 06, 2008You don?t have to be an Atlanta injury attorney to know that nursing home abuse and negligence is alive and well in Georgia and across the country. For most elder people, their greatest fear is being put in the dreaded...
Off Road Recreational Vehicles Probed
Posted on November 05, 2008Our serious injury lawyers have investigated cases involving off-road recreational vehicles. Now, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC, is probing the design of these so-called recreational off- highway vehicles after reports of fatal accidents involving new products which are...
Defective Airbags Can Result In Serious Injury Or Death
Posted on November 05, 2008As Georgia injury lawyers who have handled many automobile and truck accident cases, we sometimes see defective products that lead to injury and death in collisions. One such defect involves airbags. Although airbag failures are not common, there are many...
Dangerous Crib Lawsuit
Posted on November 01, 2008Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against a crib distributor for allegedly ignoring a nationwide recall of bassinets that can cause babies to suffocate. Madigan criticized federal regulators Wednesday for failing to take aggressive action against SFCA...
High Speed Chase Ends In Two Deaths: Was It Worth It?
Posted on October 31, 2008According to news reports, Atlanta Police Officer Sgt. Darrell Johnson was killed on Friday morning, October 24 when his vehicle was struck head-on by a fleeing suspect during a high speed police chase. Not only was the police officer...
Drug Manufacturer False Advertising
Posted on October 29, 2008The Food and Drug Administration has taken issue with drug manufacturer Bayer over advertising claims for two aspirin medicines manufactured by the company. Bayer promotes the medicines as leading to healthy hearts and stronger bones. The FDA sent two warning...
Accident Reconstruction Experts and Serious Car Accidents and Collisions
Posted on October 25, 2008In our serious injury practice, we are often encountered by cases where there is a dispute concerning liability for a particular collision. The tractor-trailer driver contends that he was forced off the road by an unknown John Doe motorist....
Settling a Personal Injury Law Suit
Posted on October 25, 2008Needless to say, our attorneys are often asked by our clients when they should settle their personal injury lawsuit and in what amount. These question, many times, presuppose that both liability and damages are clear enough to warrant a...
Car Crashes, Car Collisions and Automobile Insurance
Posted on October 23, 2008Our attorneys routinely handle serious injuries arising out of car collision and crashes. We are always amazed to learn just how little the public knows about automobile insurance coverages and generally how they work. The purpose of this blog...
Crib Recall Announced
Posted on October 21, 2008Today, Delta Enterprise Corp a children's products maker will announce a recall of 1.59 million cribs linked to two infant deaths. This recall follows other recent recalls of cribs and bassinets involving other manufacturers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC,...
Work Related Injuries: Compensation From Third Parties
Posted on October 20, 2008There is a common misconception that all work related injuries are solely covered by Workers? Compensation statutory benefits. While it is true that any employee who is injured on the job while working for their employer is entitled to...
Negligence by Emergency Vehicles
Posted on October 18, 2008Under Georgia law, the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, including a law enforcement vehicle, when responding to an emergency call, has certain privileges that are not available to other drivers. As an example, the authorized emergency vehicle operator...
Aircraft Engine Failures
Posted on October 17, 2008Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, requested that the Federal Aviation Administration increase inspections of certain Pratt & Whitney engines on dozens of passenger jets to detect possible flaws linked to the most catastrophic type of failure...
Underide Truck Accidents Kill & Paralyze
Posted on October 17, 2008Truck accidents involving trailer underriding or under-running -- where a car or other passenger vehicle passes under a trailer being pulled by a truck tractor or "big rig" -- remain severe personal injury accident hazards to automobile passengers in Georgia...
Report: More Than 90 Percent of Nursing Homes Cited For Safety Violations
Posted on October 16, 2008A new federal report found that nine of every 10 nursing homes were cited for violating federal health and safety standards last year. For-profit homes were more likely to have problems than other types of nursing homes, according to the...
Digoxin and Byetta: Dangerous Drug Products
Posted on October 16, 2008Digoxin was developed by the company Actavis Totowa to treat arrhythmias (abnormal heat rhythm) and allegedly to prevent heart failure. In April of this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a recall of this drug. As it...
Georgia Serious Injury Victims Are Treated Best At A Trauma Center
Posted on October 15, 2008Our firm?s Georgia attorney?s have represented serious injury accident victims for many years who have been treated at various trauma centers. In Atlanta, most trauma patients are treated at Grady which is a Level-I facility. Trauma is any life-threatening occurrence,...
Serious Injuries, Wrongful Death and Truck Driver Fatigue
Posted on October 14, 2008Unfortunately, the title of this entry is something we have witnessed in our practice far too many times. Each year in Georgia, truck driver fatigue contributes to serious collisions involving tractor-trailers and automobiles. Even though the United States Department...
Medical Errors Not Rewarded By Medicare
Posted on October 13, 2008New federal regulations that restrict Medicare payments to hospitals for the extra care required to treat patients harmed by certain preventable infections and medical errors went into effect on Wednesday, October 1. The rules adopted by the Centers for Medicare...
Traumatic Brain Injury - Hopeful Therapy For The Future
Posted on October 12, 2008As Georgia injury lawyers we have seen the devastating effects of brain injuries which often result from automobile and truck accidents as well as on-the-job (workers compensation) injuries. A person who sustains a severe head injury and gets immediate, expert...
Truck Accidents and Wrongful Death Claims
Posted on October 11, 2008With the ever increasing presence of the number of trucks and tractor-trailers on Georgia?s highways and roadways, our attorneys have regrettably but consistently seen a corresponding increase in wrongful death and serious injury claims arising from accidents between automobiles...
Motorcycle Crashes Continue To Increase
Posted on October 07, 2008Motorcycle injuries and deaths continue to rise as more people utilize motorcycles and scooters for daily transportation. The Washington Post reports that in an eight-hour span over the Labor Day weekend motorcycle accidents in the metropolitan District of Columbia area...
Another Deadly Bus Accident: California Charter Bus Crash Is Another Example of Lack of Passenger Safety Measures
Posted on October 06, 2008Last night's deadly charter bus crash in California reportedly killed at least ten passengers, after the bus veered from the road, and rolled over into a ditch. Predictably, passengers were ejected from the bus or tossed around inside the bus,...
Nursing Home Report Reveals Disturbing Data
Posted on October 06, 2008Nursing homes care for the elderly and disabled, some of the most vulnerable persons in society. But, a recent report has disturbing news. More than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards...
Tire Failures - Van Dangers
Posted on October 04, 2008We have written in the past about the danger of using aged tires on vehicles and the inherent rollover dangers in large passenger vans. We recently learned of the existence of an organization dedicated to addressing these dangers, educating the...
Deadly Tractor Trailer Collision
Posted on October 02, 2008Six men in a van were killed when a tractor-trailer loaded with sand hit their vehicle last Monday in south-central Florida.The Florida Highway Patrol reported that the tractor-trailer failed to heed a stop sign around 6:30 a.m. and struck the...
Product Liability Claims Involving Byetta
Posted on October 02, 2008Three new lawsuits were filed in the state of California in September concerning the injectable diabetes drug Byetta. The lawsuits allege design defect and inadequate warnings of the drug?s alleged links to pancreatitis. The lawsuits name the manufacturer, Amylin,...
Dangerous Trucks Allowed to Operate On U.S. Roads
Posted on October 01, 2008Dangerous trucks from Mexico will continue to be allowed to use the highways of the United States. The Bush administration recently announced that it would extend its cross-border trucking pilot project for two more years, despite evidence that this action...
Brain Injuries Cause Half of Seniors? Fall Deaths
Posted on October 01, 2008As Georgia trial lawyers we have handled a wide variety of slip and fall injury cases. While serious injuries from falls can occur at any age, it can be particularly serious for senior citizens. The elderly fear breaking a hip...
Car Accidents, Personal Injury and Tort Reform
Posted on September 30, 2008Not only must Georgia car accident, truck accident, and other personal injury victims fight the insurance companies to get a fair shake, but now days they must also swim against the tide of so-called ?tort reform.? Brainwashed by propaganda, bought...
Georgia SUV & Pickup Truck Rollovers -The Importance of Electronic Stability Control
Posted on September 29, 2008Severe personal injuries - often including spinal paralysis, closed head injury brain damage, and even death - frequently result from vehicle damage that is sustained in rollover car accidents in Georgia and other states. According to April 19, 2007 Status...
Sovere Immunity: An Antiquated Doctrine With Harsh Results
Posted on September 27, 2008When I speak to potential clients about claims against government employees and entities, they are often startled to learn about the antiquated but harsh doctrine of sovereign immunity. Many states have made changes to their laws to minimize the impact...
Soccer Goal Recall
Posted on September 21, 2008About 190,000 MacGregor and Mitre folding soccer goals were recalled Tuesday, after the death of a young child. The recalled goals were manufactured in China. Anyone having one of these goals should remove it immediately. The Consumer Product Safety Commission...
Van Accidents
Posted on September 21, 2008Large vans are frequently used to transport college and other school sports teams, commuters, students, day care children, the elderly, and church groups. The accident rates for these vans are alarming. According to the National Safety Transportation Board, between 1994...
Truck Driver Fatigue Studied By NTSB
Posted on September 17, 2008Our Atlanta heavy truck accident lawyers frequently litigate serious injury and death cases in which truck driver fatigue plays a crucial role in the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday that trucking companies should be more diligent in...
Spanair JK5022 (Update): Abogados especializados en casos de Litigacion Internacional de choques aereosdente aereo
Posted on September 14, 2008Spanair JK5022: Creo que le interesaría ver este video animado, el cual fue preparado por la firma Kreindler: http://www.kreindler.com/kreindler_news/news_current/Spanair5022-Full-animation-video.html Para una consulta gratis, favor de enviar su correo electronico precionando aqui (haga clic aqui)...
Legal Remedies for Victims of Sexual Assault
Posted on September 11, 2008In our serious injury practice, regrettably, we have seen more and more cases involving sexual assault. These cases arise in of a variety of contexts. We have seen assaults on minor children committed by third parties (such as school or...
Zyprexa Documents Unsealed
Posted on September 11, 2008Highly respected Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the United States Federal District Court in Brooklyn decided on Friday to unseal confidential materials about Eli Lillys top-selling antipsychotic drug Zyprexa. Judge Weinstein?s ruling was part of an order that gave class-action...
New Product Safety Law
Posted on September 09, 2008Last month, consumer, public interest and scientific groups applauded President Bush for signing product safety reform legislation into law that will overhaul the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, was passed overwhelmingly by...
FDA Discloses Drugs Under Investigation
Posted on September 06, 2008Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems.The first list is a bare-bones compilation naming 20 medications and the potential issue for each. It provides no indication of how...
Georgia Hospitals Perform Poorly
Posted on September 04, 2008A new website, The Hospital Compare Web, run by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, shows 80 U.S. hospitals listed as top performers in the mortality rates for patients admitted with heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia. No...
Drugmaker/Doctor Conflict of Interest
Posted on September 03, 2008Last week, Stanford University announced that it will severely restrict industry financing of doctors? continuing education at its medical school. The school?s new policy stems from concern about the influence drug companies may have on medical education...
Byetta deaths
Posted on September 01, 2008Four more patients have died of pancreatitis after taking the diabetes prescription medication Byetta. The deaths were announced by Eli Lilly & Co. and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. the companies manufacturing the drug. Several weeks ago, the U.S. Food and Drug...
Children Cough Medicines Subject To Review
Posted on August 28, 2008The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to revise standards for over-the-counter cough and cold medications for children. The FDA said it will change the criteria that have allowed the products to remain on drugstore shelves . This could...
Spanair JK50022: Abogados especializados en casos de Litigacion Internacional de choques aereosdente aereo
Posted on August 26, 2008Para representar a las familias de las personas que perdieron la vida en el accidente aereo Spanair JK5022, nuestro bufete juridico esta trabajando con abogados especializados en casos de Litigacion Internacional de choques aereos, ya estan invesigando esta tragedia...
Preventable Medical Errors Cost $1.47 Billion
Posted on August 25, 2008In the July 28 issue of Health Services Research, the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reported that a recently completed study indicates that employers pay out $1.47 billion each year to cover costs for surgical patients incurred...
Another High Speed Police Chase Case In Clayton County, Georgia:
Posted on August 23, 2008It was reported by the news media on Friday, August 15, 2008 that an innocent motorist was killed on 8/14 when inadvertently caught up in a high speed police chase in Clayton County, Georgia. While the media reports are...
Loss Of Chance of Survival Recoveries
Posted on August 16, 2008The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a $328,135 jury award to a widow and her son based on her husband's lost chance of recovery resulting from a doctor's negligence in not treating his stomach cancer. This ruling based upon the...
Allstate Named Worst Insurance Company
Posted on August 14, 2008To identify the worst insurance companies for consumers, researchers at the American Association for Justice (AAJ) conducted a comprehensive investigation of thousands of court documents, SEC and FBI records, state insurance department investigations and complaints, news accounts from across the...
Defective Knee & Hip Joints - A Need For a National Joint Registry
Posted on August 13, 2008As Atlanta injury lawyers, we see many accident victims undergo knee and hip replacement surgery every year. Many of these victims are injured as a result of automobile and truck accidents and many result from work related injuries. The...
Medicare Attempts To Prevent Hospital Injuries
Posted on August 12, 2008We have previously written about the federal government?s new policy restricting Medicare payments to hospitals for the extra care required to treat patients harmed by certain preventable infections and medical errors. Now the federal government is expanding the program in...
Georgia Should Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving
Posted on August 10, 2008On July 1 of this year the state of California provided a great example for the state of Georgia in prohibiting by law drivers in California from holding a phone and talking while driving. Under the new law, a...
Deaths Linked to Contaminated Heparin
Posted on August 08, 2008According to an Article in The Chicago Tribune, the Food and Drug Administration conclusively has linked 3 patient deaths to a foreign substance found in specific lots of Heparin, a drug manufactured by Baxter International. According to the news...
Allstate Bad Faith
Posted on August 06, 2008Allstate Insurance Company is known by plaintiff?s attorneys for engaging in bad faith tactics. Last week, the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict that hit Allstate with more than $16 million in damages for bad faith tactics. On...
Dangerous Tires Threaten The Public
Posted on August 05, 2008According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, last summer, more than 380,000 defective tires were recalled from the market. What is more troubling than this number is the fact that experts agree that less than 20% of...
The Wreckage Of A Wrongful Death Case: More Than Meets The Eye
Posted on August 04, 2008On April 30 of this year on a busy interstate here in Atlanta, a Ms. Katherine Armstrong was killed when involved in a collision with an armored truck on a busy interstate highway in Atlanta. The driver of the truck...
Heavy Truck Accidents May Increase
Posted on August 04, 2008Our Atlanta truck accident lawyers see many cases in which heavy trucks such as tractor trailer and dump trucks, are involved in serious accidents. Statistics show that about 5,000 innocent people are killed every year and more than 100,000 are...
Accident Data To Be Released To The Public
Posted on August 03, 2008In a major victory for consumers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled last week that information that automobile and tire manufacturers submit to the government about crashes resulting in death, injury and property damage is....
Trasylol Removed From The Market:Suspected in Hundreds of Deaths
Posted on August 03, 2008On May 14, 2008, the manufacturer of Trasylol officially pulled all remaining supplies of the blood clotting drug from the market. This drug, manufactured by Bayer (AG) is typically used by surgeons to control bleeding during heart surgery. Unfortunately,...
The Complications Of A Serious Personal Injury Claim
Posted on August 01, 2008Every serious injury claim our firm handles has its own set of complications, but one of the most complicating facts we are often confronted with is the case where someone is seriously injured in an automobile or tractor-trailer collision...
Georgia Bicycling Laws
Posted on August 01, 2008In addition to the bicycle laws already covered in past blogs, there are a few others with which all bike riders should be familiar. One makes it unlawful for any person to sell a new bicycle or pedal unless the...
Wrongful Deaths and Serious Injuries Caused by Unfit Truck Drivers
Posted on July 30, 2008The United States Department of Transportation has reported that 5,300 people died in crashes involving large commercial trucks in 2006. 126,000 more were injured. A leading cause of these crashes were situations where the drivers involved fell asleep, suffered...
Beware Medical Credit Cards
Posted on July 29, 2008Many doctors and dentists are marketing medical credit cards to their patients. Doctors like the cards because they get paid immediately from the credit card companies rather than spending time collecting medical bills. Doctors and other health care providers are...
Contact Lens Solution Lawsuits Continue
Posted on July 28, 2008In May of 2007, Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. recalled one of its contact lens cleaning solutions, known as AMO Complete Moisture Plus. Our firm is currently representing 2 individuals injured by this product. According to the Centers for Disease...
Georgia Bicycle Laws - Use Of The Roadway
Posted on July 28, 2008Our Atlanta bicycle accident attorneys review many bike injury cases in which it is alleged by the at fault motorist that the bike rider was riding in an unlawful manner. Continuing with our explanation of Georgia bicycle laws, Section 40-6-294...
A Wrongful Death Case:Client?s Son Dies Hero?s Death
Posted on July 27, 2008In our wrongful death practice, obviously, our attorneys have seen many tragedies, sometimes with devastating consequences for our clients and their families. This past week was no different as we were retained to represent the family of a young...
Anti-Consumer Decisions From Supreme Court Get Congressional Scrutiny
Posted on July 26, 2008At a recent Senate hearing , several lawmakers blasted the U.S. Supreme Court over a series of opinions they say protect businesses at the expense of ordinary Americans. Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, said the Court's recent opinions on employment...
Bicycle Laws - Equipment
Posted on July 25, 2008As we previously wrote, there are specific laws regulating bicycles in the state of Georgia. Many of these requirement are unknown to bike riders, and in many instances are used by defendants to attempt to avoid liability for injuring bike...
Defective Tire Stem Dangers
Posted on July 24, 2008Defective automobile tire valves manufactured in China are the subject of a recall. Some 6 million tire valve stems manufactured by Shanghai Baolong Automotive Corp. of China between July 2006 and November 2006 have been recalled. It is estimated that...
Atlanta Bike Laws
Posted on July 22, 2008Atlanta bicycle accidents and injuries are increasing at an alarming rate, as we have previously written. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published a story which echoed our information and addressed the growing conflict between bikers and automobile drivers...
Bike Injury Patterns
Posted on July 19, 2008Bicycle injuries and fatalities are an increasing problem. The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center is a program of The University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center in cooperation with the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals...
Motorcycle Crashes: 85,000 More Troubling Statistics
Posted on July 18, 2008In 2006, approximately 5,000 people lost their lives and 80,000 were injured in motorcycle crashes. We have blogged before about the staggering number of statistics when it comes to those killed or injured while riding motorcycles. Obviously, riders must...
Bicycle Accidents Increasing
Posted on July 15, 2008Bicycle accidents are increasing at an alarming rate as the popularity of road biking has increased over the last few years, and, as more people are turning to bikes as a means of transportation to save fuel. With the increase...
Motorcycle Crashes and Helmets: Statistics Prove that Helmets Save Lives
Posted on July 14, 2008The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently issued statistics indicating that in 2006 helmets dramatically saved lives in motorcycle crashes. The NHTSA estimates that had all motorcyclists involved in collisions worn helmets in 2006, 752 more people would...
Chilling Statistics for Motorcycle Accidents
Posted on July 11, 2008According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (a division of the United States Department of Transportation), in the calendar year 2006, 4,810 people died in motorcycle crashes. This number was up over 5% from those killed in 2005...
The Blufton Bus Crash: ?An Accident That Did Not Have To Happen?
Posted on July 09, 2008According to investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the March 2, 2007 Blufton University bus crash that killed 5 members of the Ohio Blufton University baseball team and injured 28 others was ?an accident that didn?t have....
Medication Errors Still Occurring in Hospitals
Posted on July 09, 2008A baby in a Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital neonatal intensive care unit has died after receiving an overdose of the blood thinner heparin. The baby was one of up to 17 babies in a neonatal intensive care unit receiving overdoses...
Motorcycle Accidents and Uninsured Motorist Coverage
Posted on July 09, 2008This past year our firm handled several motorcycle accidents involving wrongful deaths and serious injuries. What we see in these cases is the importance of a motorcycle rider having uninsured motorist coverage to protect their interests. Even where a...
NTSB Report on Bluffton University Bus Accident Illustrates Preventable Dangers Causing Personal Injury and Wrongful Death--Again and Again
Posted on July 08, 2008As attorneys who represent the young man who is the most seriously injured surviving passenger in the Bluffton University Baseball Team's bus crash in Atlanta in 2007, we listened with great interest today to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)...
Police Chase Cases and Innocent Passengers
Posted on July 07, 2008Since the seminal case of Scott v. Harris as decided by the U. S. Supreme Court there seems to be a prevailing mood that ?the gloves are off? and the police can chase a suspect who defies their orders...
Surgical Checklist For Reducing Errors
Posted on June 26, 2008The World Health Organization issued its first guidelines on Tuesday aimed at reducing complications and deaths from the rising numbers of operations now being performed. Many who read the checklist will react by wondering why hospitals and surgeons have not...
Truck Related Deaths in Georgia
Posted on June 20, 2008Between 1982 and 2006, 5,473 people lost their lives in Georgia due to tractor-trailer accidents in this state. Nationwide, in 2006 alone, 4,995 died in large truck collisions. Between 1982 and 2006, on a nationwide basis, 126,107 people lost...
Bicycle Accidents And Related Injuries Caused By
Posted on June 18, 2008Earlier this year our Atlanta attorneys settled a wrongful death case involving a bicycle accident which occurred inside the city limits. In that particular case, the bicycle rider, who lost his life, became entangled with loose utility wires hanging...
Truck Drivers, Safety Regulations and Civil Liability for Truck Companies
Posted on June 16, 2008Our personal injury lawyers have written before about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and how they impact the public safety when it comes to truck drivers operating tractor trailer rigs on our interstate highways. Obviously, before anyone can...
Georgia Courts Do Not Favor Consumers
Posted on June 15, 2008Georgia Court Watch is a project of Georgia Watch, a nonprofit and nonpartisan group committed to strengthening the rights of consumers in Georgia. It has recently issued its annual report on Georgia appellate courts. The reports shows that, contrary to...
Truck Wrecks Caused by Negligent Hiring and Retention
Posted on June 14, 2008Under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, a truck driver may not be hired, nor may he operate a tractor trailer, unless certain employment criteria are met. One set of criteria deal with the prospective truck drivers qualifications to drive...
The Importance of Uninsured Motorist Coverage
Posted on June 12, 2008In our personal injury practice we are oftentimes astounded at the lack of understanding by the public of the important nature of uninsured motorist coverage. Many people do not know what uninsured motorist coverage is. Regrettably, many people learn what...
Tire Failures Related To Age
Posted on June 10, 2008Our Atlanta car accident attorneys have been involved in numerous cases in which tire failures have resulted in serious injury and death. We are currently involved in a Georgia case in which a defective tire failed on a dump truck...
Closed Head Injuries: More Serious Than Skull Fractures
Posted on June 09, 2008Our personal injury lawyers have seen closed head injuries in every locale surrounding metropolitan Atlanta whether it be Austell, Snellville, Roswell, Alpharetta, Jonesboro, Sandy Springs or the other numerous locales near the city. Victims of closed head injuries oftentimes...
Pedestrian Personal Injury Cases On The Rise
Posted on June 06, 2008In metropolitan Atlanta, our lawyers are seeing more and more pedestrian personal injury cases. Due to congested conditions caused by increasing population and more motorists on the road, as might be expected, there are more incidents involving pedestrians...
Police Chases: Why Do The Police Always Deny Their Mistakes?
Posted on May 31, 2008Having handled police chase cases for over a decade, I have yet to see a case in which the police admitted wrongdoing when a high speed pursuit turned out badly. Obviously, when a high speed pursuit ends in tragedy...
Amputations and Infections
Posted on May 28, 2008Our personal injury lawyers unfortunately have seen far too many cases involving traumatic amputations. In many of these cases, the tragedy is compounded by infection that sets in shortly after the original trauma. If one loses a leg below...
Car Accident Injury Study Shows Inadequate Seat Belt Use
Posted on May 22, 2008Our Atlanta, Georgia car accident lawyers frequently review cases in which the occupants of cars have suffered severe injuries or death while not wearing seat belts. In many of these cases the injuries could have been prevented had seat belts...
Traumatic Electrical Injuries
Posted on May 21, 2008Traumatically induced electrical injuries are not only a common form of trauma but also complex and potentially devastating to the victim. The physical and emotional manifestations and severity of electrical trauma encompass a wide spectrum of symptoms ranging from...
Glass Injuries from Unsafe Glass That Is Not "Safety Glass": How Dangerous Glass Causing Personal Injury and Death Continues to Endanger Unsuspecting Children and Adults
Posted on May 20, 2008We are continually disturbed when we hear reports of persons injured by unsafe glass--decades after the need for "safety glazing" material (safety glass) was recognized. Our serious personal injury lawyers have delved deeply into the history of glass injuries in...
Serious Injury Paralysis Cases
Posted on May 18, 2008Automobile collisions often cause serious spinal cord injuries. If the trauma suffered by the victim is severe enough it can cause either temporary or permanent paralysis. Studies have indicated that as many as fifty-five percent (55%) of all paralysis cases...
Medical Mistakes Not Uncommon
Posted on May 17, 2008According to Healthgrades, an independent health care ratings company, 247,662 patients studied between 2003 and 2005 died from potentially preventable problems. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million patients every year suffer from mistakes with medications...
After Effects of Traumatic Amputations
Posted on May 17, 2008It has been estimated that there are approximately 135,000 new amputations occurring each year in the United States. Twenty-two percent (22%) of these amputations (about 30,000) are estimated to be caused by traumatic events such as tractor-trailer collisions, car...
Another Tort Reformer Sues
Posted on May 15, 2008In what seems to be a classic case of ?do as I say, not as I do,? one-time U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, an advocate for limiting the right of ordinary citizens to sue for damages, has settled...
Traumatic Brain Injuries Are On The Rise
Posted on May 14, 2008In our personal injury practice, we have seen evidence here locally of what has been documented to be a growing and national problem. We have seen more and more brain injury cases resulting from traumatic events, typically tractor-trailer accidents, automobile...
Doctor Sues for Medical Negligence
Posted on May 12, 2008Our Atlanta personal injury lawyers constantly hear calls form doctors and politicians to limit the rights of recovery of innocent patients injured by medical negligence. Often, the rights of these innocent patients are sacrificed for the monetary benefit of physicians...
High-Speed Police Chases: One Person Can Make A Difference
Posted on May 12, 2008On our blog, we have written numerous articles about the dangers associated with high speed police chases. Our firm has handled numerous wrongful death and serious injury cases arising out of these very dangerous pursuits. By and large the...
Brain Injuries and the Uninsured
Posted on May 09, 2008The saddest personal injury cases we see in our serious injury law practice often times involves those who have suffered traumatic brain injury resulting from an automobile, tractor-trailer collision or some other traumatic event, with these tragedies being seriously...
Insulin Pump Dangers
Posted on May 08, 2008Federal regulators are sounding a warning about dangers associated with the use of insulin pumps by children and teenagers. Insulin pumps are used by tens of thousands of young people worldwide with Type 1 diabetes. The Food and Drug Administration...
MRSA Infections in Hospitals and the Community Continue to Rise
Posted on May 05, 2008MRSA is a staph becteria which has been in the news in recent years as serious problems have been reported in hospitals and other health care facilities. Staph bacteria, even those that aren't resistant to antibiotics, have long caused...
Heparin Victims Testify Before Congress
Posted on May 02, 2008Victims of the wrongful death of their loved ones testified this week before Congress concerning adulterated supplies of Heparin. One of the largest suppliers of this drug, which is used in kidney dialysis and various other surgeries to prevent...
Medical Group Fights Industry Influence
Posted on April 30, 2008The Association of American Medical Colleges has proposed that drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in nation?s medical colleges. The Association has begun...
Reuse of Syringes Can Cause Dangerous Infections
Posted on April 29, 2008Medical Malpractice takes many forms. In this article, we write about a unusual but dangerous medical error that can cause lifetime consequences for an innocent patient. Though most everyone knows that sharing needles is unsafe in today?s world, sharing...
Motorcycle Accidents on the Rise
Posted on April 28, 2008Our personal injury practice reflects pretty much what we see in national statistics concerning the rising rate of motorcycle injuries and accidents. We are seeing more and more clients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents. In large part, this is...
AEDs Save Young Athletes
Posted on April 25, 2008Portable defibrillators are becoming common equipment at youth athletic event. We have written in the past explaining how theses devices, also known as AEDs, help restart the heart in the event of an accident. A recent news report relates that...
Lasik Problems To Be Studied
Posted on April 25, 2008Lasik vision correction surgery has been performed in the United States for almost ten years. It has become a massive business with specialized centers opening in most markets and advertising freedom from glasses. However, not everyone's a good candidate and...
Plastic Bottle Dangers
Posted on April 19, 2008Wal-Mart announced this week that it will soon stop selling baby bottles made with the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). The retailer said that it was immediately stopping sales of baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, food containers and water bottles made...
TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT
Posted on April 18, 2008Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became entangled in loose utility wires which completely obstructed a city...
Medical Record Privacy In Peril
Posted on April 18, 2008An article in the New England Journal of Medicine, warns that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise new challenges to...
Insured Loses Katrina Claim
Posted on April 16, 2008The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that a flood exclusion in an "all-risk" policy barred a claim by the owner of an apartment building damaged by flood waters during Hurricane Katrina. The owner lived in the five-unit building when four...
Heparin Concerns Grow
Posted on April 15, 2008This Tuesday federal regulators from the FDA urged makers of many kinds of medical devices that contain heparin to test their supplies. These concerns arise from previously discovered supplies of Chinese made heparin contaminated with a look-alike ingredient that mimicked...
Escalator Injuries Increasing
Posted on April 14, 2008A new study reports that from 1991 to 2005, nearly 40,000 people older than 65 were injured while riding escalators, an average of 2,660 a year. The report, published in the March issue of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention,...
Hospital Errors Endanger Patients
Posted on April 13, 2008An analysis of 41 million Medicare patient records, released April 8 by HealthGrades, a health care ratings organization, found that patients treated at top-performing hospitals were, on average, 43 percent less likely to experience one or more medical errors than...
Medication Errors For Hospitalized Children
Posted on April 10, 2008Our Atlanta based medical malpractice lawyers frequently handle cases involving medication errors in hospitals. Some of these cases result in catastrophic damages. A research study published in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics determined that medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses...
Florida Court Suspends Allstate in Florida
Posted on April 08, 2008On Friday, April 4, 2008, the District Court of Appeals, First District, State of Florida upheld the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation?s suspension of Allstate from writing insurance in the State of Florida. Allstate had been suspended weeks before for...
New Tactic By Defense Attorneys To Prejudice Claimants
Posted on April 05, 2008Our Atlanta personal injury attorneys are constantly monitoring emerging rends in the legal field. Recently, a controversial test that is supposed to detect "malingering" is gaining popularity among defense experts in personal injury, workers' compensation and other cases...
Federal Agencies Join Forces Against Consumers
Posted on April 03, 2008If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can't sue the maker for injury if it met agency standards. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says you...
Home Defibrillator Study
Posted on April 01, 2008A study released yesterday contained bad news for makers and buyers of portable defibrillators, devices that deliver electrical shocks meant to revive victims of sudden heart In the first major study of their use in household settings, researchers found no...
Police Use of Taser Kills Teenager
Posted on March 24, 2008Many wrongful death lawsuits have been brought against the manufacturer of the popular police taser device but according to the manufacturer?s boasts which are in the public record, no such lawsuits have been successful. And yet, practically every week...
Imperial Sugar Plant Case Becomes More Complicated
Posted on March 22, 2008Thirteen (13) people have died (and many more injured) as a result of burns and other injuries sustained in the explosion at the Imperial Plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Investigators have expressed the opinion that sugar dust ignited and...
Surgical Error Causes Removal of Healthy Kidney
Posted on March 20, 2008Our Atlanta medical malpractice attorneys on occasion review cases in which surgical procedures are performed on the wrong side of the body. Last Tuesday there was a report of a wrong site surgery at a Minnesota hospital. Surgeons at the...
Contaminated Chinese Heparin
Posted on March 17, 2008At least19 people have died, and hundreds became ill after being given heparin, a blood-thinning drug sold by drug manufacturer Baxter International. Baxter obtained the drug?s active ingredient from a Chinese manufacturer. A belated inspection of the Chinese plant found...
Surgery Patients Awake During Procedures
Posted on March 13, 2008Many surgery patients report that they awake during surgery. They say it feels like being trapped in a corpse, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain. Each year, as...
Another Police Chase: Another Tragedy
Posted on March 06, 2008It seems that everyday our personal injury lawyers open the paper, we read about another wrongful death in the context of a high speed police chase. One such case occurred this past weekend in Augusta, Georgia when a Sheriff?s...
Another Innocent Victim Killed in a Police Chase for a Stolen Car
Posted on March 04, 2008In February of this year, an active member of the military at Fort Benning, Sgt. Joanna Joy Ringer, age 21, was reportedly killed as yet another innocent victim in a police chase case. This time, the, innocent victim, Ms....
Atlanta School Bus Accident Raises Questions Concerning Bus Safety
Posted on March 04, 2008Our personal injury lawyers read today about a serious accident case involving an overturned school bus which apparently lost control and overturned about 40 miles north of Atlanta near Canton, Georgia. It was traveling from one high school to a...
Doctor Charged Criminally
Posted on February 29, 2008In 2006, a disabled and brain damaged man, near death, was taken into an operating room at a California hospital in order to harvest his organs for donation. Law enforcement officials contend that what occurred in the operating room was a criminal act...
New Supreme Court Decision Makes It More Diffcult For Georgia Lawyers To Sue Medical Device And Drug Companies In Product-Injury Claims
Posted on February 28, 2008Last Wednesday the Supreme Court of the United States made it harder for injury and wrongful death victims to sue manufacturers of federally approved medical devices. This decision will also impact cases involving dangerous drugs. The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the Estate of Charles Riegel could sue a company under state law over a medical device which had previously been cleared for sale by federal regulators...
Truck Accidents from Driver Fatigue Increasing
Posted on February 26, 2008Truck driver fatigue is a factor in a significant number of truck accidents involving deaths and other injuries, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the government agency generally in charge of promoting trucking safety. Consistent with the Bush administration?s continuing policy of protecting the interests of big business (at the expense of the public), in 2004, the federal government catered to the trucking industry and its lobby by changing the rules concerning hours that a trucker may drive...
Atlanta Police Chase
Posted on February 25, 2008Atlanta TV stations are reporting that this afternoon, a car veered into a bus stop during a police chase and struck four pedestrians. The incident was near Metropolitan Parkway and University Drive. According to reports, the Atlanta Police were chasing three juveniles in a stolen vehicle when the car ran into the bus stop...
Dangerous Drugs--Who Is The FDA Trying To Protect?
Posted on February 25, 2008In January of this year, the FDA issued a proposed rule which directly contradicts Congress? expressed intent when it passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendment?s Act of 2007 (FDAAA). Unlike the FDA?s proposed rule, Congress intended the duty to warn customers of a drug?s hazards rests with the drug company, who is in the best position to warn about problems associated with the drug...
Trasylol Heart Drug Dangers Hidden By Manufacturer
Posted on February 21, 2008Two studies have concluded that heart surgery patients are more likely to die if given the anti-bleeding drug Trasylol. The drug has been widely used for the last 14 years to treat hundreds of thousands of heart bypass patients each year. Drug manufacturer Bayer AG ceased sales of the last fall, after a Canadian study was halted because of deaths among patients taking Trasylol...
Medical Device Manufacturers Receive Protections
Posted on February 20, 2008This Wednesday the Supreme Court issued a major anti-consumer opinion, making it harder for consumers to sue manufacturers of federally approved medical devices. In an 8-1 decision, the court ruled against the estate of a patient who suffered serious injuries when a catheter burst during a medical procedure...
Police Chase Indictment
Posted on February 14, 2008Our police chase injury lawyers have handled many cases involving the deaths of innocent civilians due to police chasing suspects for minor crimes. We have previously written about police departments that have adopted restrictive policies limiting chases and decreasing the chances that innocent civilians and police officers can be seriously injured or killed...
Botox Danger
Posted on February 11, 2008The U.S. consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, has called upon authorities to require that Botox and a similar injections come with strong warnings following reports of 16 deaths and other serious problems after the botulinum toxin spread inside the body...
Drug Ads Investigated
Posted on February 11, 2008We have previously written about controversial drug advertising that takes place in the United States. Once again, this practice has come to the forefront through Dr. Robert Jarvik, who is best known as the developer of an artificial heart. About two years ago, Dr...
FDA Circumvents Congressional Intent In Favor Of Drug Companies
Posted on February 11, 2008Last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule which directly contradicts Congress? expressed intent when it passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), an Act which encompasses the Prescription Drug and User Fee Act...
Truck Accidents Resulting In Death And Personal Injuries Plague Georgia
Posted on February 10, 2008Our Atlanta personal injury lawyers know that truck accidents on Georgia?s freeways continue to leave a legacy of death, paralysis, closed head brain damage and other personal injuries for numerous innocent victims. I have read that almost 5,000 people are killed each year in truck-related crashes...
Georgia Car Accident, Truck Accident and SUV Roll-over Tips
Posted on February 09, 2008There is a well-kept secret of the insurance industry - one unknown to most personal injury victims of car accidents, truck accidents, SUV roll-overs and other motor vehicle crashes: Namely, Georgia state law automatically includes ?uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage? (UM/UIM) in the typical auto liability insurance policy...
Sugar Refinery Blast Leaves Many Dead - Others Injured
Posted on February 08, 2008Our Georgia injury lawyers are accustomed to seeing cases involving horrible injury and cases of death caused by all types of accidents but burn cases are at the top of the list. We were discussing the news accounts today in Savannah reporting that firefighters found three, and perhaps as many as six, bodies in the wreckage of a still-burning sugar refinery leveled by an explosion overnight...
Truck Accident Lawyers Consider Various Theories Of Liability When Representing Victims In Death Or Injury Cases
Posted on February 08, 2008Truck wrecks occur more often than one would think in and near a busy city like Atlanta. When they do occur people often sustain very serious injuries and many such accidents result in the death of innocent people. The injury lawyers in our firm have ?seen it all? when it comes to the causes of these tragedies...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 10
Posted on February 08, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 10: 10. Is my case likely to settle or will it go to trial and, if so, how long will the process take? Answer: Over 90% of all serious injury claims are settled by means of compromise...
Atlanta Injury Lawyers Analyze The Facts of Truck Wrecks - Interstate Motor Carrier or Intrastate Motor Carrier?
Posted on February 07, 2008Our Atlanta truck wreck lawyers handle automobile accidents involving personal injury and death claims frequently. Many of those accidents involve tractor trailers owned and operated by trucking companies, also known as motor carriers. These trucking companies fall into two categories: (1) interstate carriers and (2) intrastate carriers...
Georgia and Atlanta Area Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 9
Posted on February 06, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 9: 8. If I am injured by a third party, but I am also working on the job at the time, am I entitled to both workers? compensation coverage and a liability settlement? Answer: The answer is yes although there may be a claim for subrogation made by the workers? compensation insurance carrier...
PART II: TOLLING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
Posted on February 06, 2008It is well established that failure to comply with an ante-litem notification provision within the time required by law is a bar to any right of action. See Mattox v. Bailey, 221 Ga. App. 546, 472 S.E. 2d 130 (1996). However, an ante-litem time requirement has been held to be, in itself, a form of statute of limitations, with all general principles applicable to statutes of limitation also applying to ante-litem time restrictions, including tolling provisions...
DANGEROUS MEDICAL DEVICES AND DOCTORS
Posted on February 05, 2008Lawyers who practice in the field of dangerous medical devices and drugs are never surprised to discover relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Recently, questionable ties between supposedly objective researchers and the maker of an artificial spinal disk have come to light...
TOLLING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN TORT CASES FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME
Posted on February 05, 2008As Georgia personal injury lawyers know, the typical statute of limitations for a bodily injury case in Georgia is two years from the date of the occurence at issue. However, in cases involving victims of criminal acts who have potential civil causes of actions against those who brought about injury to them, there are some nuances of Georgia law that all attorneys in this field should know...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 8
Posted on February 04, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 8: 9. If I have no health insurance and the at fault driver has little or no liability insurance coverage, what happens if my medical bills exceed available coverages? Answer: This is a sad case that we see far too often in our practice...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 7
Posted on February 02, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 7: 7. If the at fault driver has no insurance coverage whatsoever, can I recover for my injuries under my own policy? Answer: The answer is yes but only if you have uninsured/underinsured coverage under your own automobile policy...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 6
Posted on January 31, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 6: 6. Can my spouse recover damages if I am seriously injured and he/she misses time from work caring for me? Answer: A spouse does not have a legal claim for their own lost wages while they miss work caring for their injured spouse...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 5
Posted on January 29, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 5: 5. Who will pay my lost wages while I am recovering from my injuries? Answer: In Georgia, there is no ?Pay as You Go? rule so unfortunately the answer to this question is that you may receive no lost wages at all unless your employer continues to pay you and/or you have disability benefits...
Another Police Chase Case and More Avoidable Deaths
Posted on January 27, 2008We have written previously about the dangers of police chase cases. This week we read in the paper about a chase that occurred on January 24 involving a man fleeing the police in a stolen vehicle. As he was fleeing, allegedly with a police officer in pursuit, the suspect in the stolen vehicle engaged in increasingly dangerous behavior...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 4
Posted on January 27, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 4: 4. If I obtain a settlement from the at fault defendant, do I have to pay taxes on my settlement? Answer: Restitution for a loss is not considered to be income...
Electrocution Claims: Serious Injury and Wrongful Death
Posted on January 27, 2008We read in the newspaper this week about the death of a maintenance man at a local school system when he was electrocuted while trying to change a fixture at the elementary school. While the newspaper article did not provide many details, it was curious to us that a maintenance man would be killed while simply trying to change out a light fixture...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 3
Posted on January 25, 2008This blog will continue in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 3: 3. If a client settles his or her personal injury claim against an at fault defendant, will they have to repay their own insurance carrier under current subrogation provisions of the law? Answer: This question often comes up in the context of serious injury cases where the injured individual has incurred substantial medical expenses...
Ortho Evra Contraceptive Patch is Dangerous to Use
Posted on January 25, 2008The Ortho Evra contraceptive patch has been used by many young women who unfortunately have developed clot related injuries. Some users have had strokes, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms or deep vein thrombosis as a result of using this product. This past week, the Food and Drug Administration announced a significant update to the manufacturer?s warning on the contraceptive patch...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Question Number 2
Posted on January 23, 2008This continues in our series of providing our readers with answers to frequently asked questions in the context of a serious injury case. This blog will address FAQ number 2: 2. Who will bear responsibility for my future medical expenses if I settle my serious injury case today? Answer: Anytime a serious injury case is settled, there has to be an evaluation of future medical expenses...
Georgia Serious Injury Cases: Frequently Asked Questions
Posted on January 21, 2008As personal injury attorneys who handle many cases involving very serious injuries, we are frequently asked questions by clients and family members about matters commonly of concern to them. In order to provide our readers with some general guidance about serious injury cases in Georgia, we have decided to do a series of blogs on frequently asked questions in the context of such cases...
Medication Errors In Hospitals
Posted on January 20, 2008We have previously written about the dangers of medication errors in hospitals. Recently another incident made the news because a celebrity was involved. Actor Dennis Quaid?s newborn twins and another child were put in serious danger when they were administered overdoses of a blood thinner...
Emergency Care Lacking in Hospitals
Posted on January 18, 2008Our attorneys are increasingly reviewing cases where major surgical procedures are being performed at small physician-owned hospitals and surgical centers. On January 10, 2008, the Washington Post revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, had issued a report concerning physician-owned specialty hospitals...
Medical Malpractice Limits on Recoveries
Posted on January 17, 2008Our medical malpractice attorneys are frequently forced to decline cases which have merit from a liability standpoint, but due to caps on the amount of recovery cannot be justified in economic terms. Last week, the Los Angeles Times ran a story concerning a 72 year old woman who entered Stanford University Medical Center for double knee replacement surgery in April...
Having Full Insurance Coverage Does Not Mean You Have Good Coverage
Posted on January 17, 2008Serious injury lawyers like ourselves often hear clients involved in serious accidents tell us that they had ?full coverage? at the time of the accident and that they therefore have ?excellent? insurance protection. The vast majority of the time, this is not the case at all...
Medical Malpractice Bill Seeks To Correct Injustice
Posted on January 15, 2008Our medical malpractice attorneys are many times forced to turn away cases against emergency rooms where the patient is injured by clear negligence. This is caused by the gross negligence standard for emergency departments adopted by the Legislature in 2005...
Police Chase Cases Do Not Always Protect the Public
Posted on January 14, 2008Our firm is working on a police chase case involving an officer who has been in two separate high speed pursuit cases resulting in two deaths. We have learned in this case that another officer in the same department has also been involved in two other accidents that have resulted in four deaths...
State Farm Held Liable
Posted on January 11, 2008Our serious injury attorneys frequently see cases in which insurance companies refuse to pay valid claims and then turn on their insureds accusing them of fraud. Last Tuesday, the Western Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict of nearly $8.5 million against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company for breach of contract claims and malicious prosecution against a claim holder...
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