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Google Alerts Demonstrate Dangers of Police Chases

Posted on August 29, 2009
If 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Georgia 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...

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Danger Warning For Weight Loss Drugs

Posted on August 25, 2009
Our 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, 2009
Last 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, 2009
Drug 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Another 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
We 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Georgia 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, 2009
Many 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, 2009
For 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, 2009
This 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, 2009
We 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, 2009
Georgia 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, 2009
Forced 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, 2009
As 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Our 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, 2009
Tractor 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, 2009
According 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, 2009
Many 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, 2009
We 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, 2009
Accutane, 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, 2009
Georgia 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, 2009
Georgia 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...

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