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Nursing Home Quality Ratings

Posted on December 21, 2008
Abuse 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Un 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, 2008
Consumer 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...

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Dangerous Drug Warning

Posted on December 17, 2008
Dangerous 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Escalator 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, 2008
As 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, 2008
Dangerous 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Our 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, 2008
As 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, 2008
Abuse 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, 2008
Our 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, 2008
As 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, 2008
Truck 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, 2008
Another 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Window 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, 2008
Our 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, 2008
It 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, 2008
Last 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, 2008
As 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, 2008
According 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
Over 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
It 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, 2008
Georgia 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...

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