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Georgia Residents May Be Affected By FDA Drug Ban

Posted on February 26, 2009
The 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, 2009
Regrettably, 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
As 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...

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Unsafe Truck Drivers: Suing The Employer Trucking Company

Posted on February 23, 2009
Interstate 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, 2009
Stryker, 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, 2009
It 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...

Georgia Victims Denied Legal Remedies

Posted on February 21, 2009
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Dangerous and Defective Products

Posted on February 20, 2009
The 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, 2009
Every 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, 2009
Recently, 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, 2009
Not 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, 2009
We 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, 2009
Georgia 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Our 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
As 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
An 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, 2009
Many 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, 2009
On 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, 2009
We 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Our 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, 2009
Our 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, 2009
Every 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, 2009
Since 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, 2009
In 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, 2009
Georgia 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...

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