Articles Posted in Georgia injury news

It was a bittersweet  holiday weekend for bicycle riders in Georgia. On Friday, July 1, a new state law went into effect, requiring car and truck drivers to keep at least 3 feet of distance from bicycles when passing them on the road.  Biking clubs across the state are holding group rides over the Fourth…

Douglas County, Georgia, where I graduated from high school and returned for a few years as a young lawyer, is known as a very conservative venue. However, Douglas Countians do not lack the ability to do the right thing when the facts call for it. Today’s news includes a report that the State Court of…

Large burn injuries today are treated with split thickness skin grafts. A dermatome, a tool comparable to a cheese slicer, is used to harvest thin slices of epidermis from donor sites on an uninjured part of the body. The harvested skin may then be meshed in order to cover a larger area  by making lengthwise…

Road design is a big factor in preventing auto and truck accidents, personal injury and wrongful deaths in Georgia and around the world. In my practice as a personal injury trial attorney in Atlanta, it is clear to me that prevention is the best approach. According to an article by Ariel Hart in today’s Atlanta…

As an Atlanta trucking accident and wrongful death attorney living in Sandy Springs, I was saddened a couple of weeks ago to hear that a woman had been killed when she was struck by a tractor trailer a couple of exits up from my home, near the high school from which my son graduated. Rosario Velez,…

In my home Douglas County  today, a motorcyclist was killed when a trailer carrying aluminum cans that had separated from the pickup truck that was pulling it.  According to the Georgia State Patrol, the crash happened around 1 p.m. near the intersection of Lee Road and Park Avenue in Douglas County. The pickup truck was…

On April 22nd, a Henry County police officer was killed in a traffic accident in Butts County on his way to work.   Officer  James “Jimmy’ Franklin Carter Jr., was an 11-year veteran of the Henry County Police Department, worked in Uniform Patrol, as a detective in the Criminal Investigations Division, as a K-9 officer, and…

This week a carpet mill worker at the Beaulieu plant in Murray County, Georgia, was injured falling into a tufting machine. He was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga. Workers compensation provides the exclusive remedy of an injured worker against the employer in work accidents. However, sometimes an injured worker can recover additional compensation for…

As a trucking and auto safety attorney in Atlanta, and as a former prosecutor, I have developed a strong appreciation for the competence and professionalism of the Georgia State Patrol. Now the state’s budget crisis is impacting the GSP’s capacity to cover the rural areas of our state. According to a report by Rhonda Cook in…

As a personal injury and wrongful death trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I see a lot of the bad things that happen to good people. But sometimes we see some good news. Georgia’s fatal traffic wrecks declined from  1,729 in 2005 to 1,507 in 2008. The rate of Georgia road fatalities per miles traveled decreased 4…