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Atlanta Injury Lawyers Analyze The Facts of Truck Wrecks - Interstate Motor Carrier or Intrastate Motor Carrier?

Posted on February 07, 2008
Our 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
It 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, 2008
Lawyers 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...

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TOLLING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN TORT CASES FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME

Posted on February 05, 2008
As 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
We 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
We 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
As 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, 2008
We 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, 2008
Our 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, 2008
Our 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, 2008
Serious 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, 2008
Our 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, 2008
Our 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, 2008
Our 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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