Articles Posted in Georgia injury news

In my personal injury law practice in Atlanta, Georgia, I see too many reports of injuries and deaths in highway construction zones. And almost every day, somewhere in the country, there is another instance of a vehicle crossing over highway median strips to strike oncoming vehicles head-on. Last week I spent a day poring through…

The four people killed this week in a fiery crash on I-75 near Valdosta, Georgia, have been identified.  They were a family from central Kentucky — Jerome Roberts, 40, Cheryl Collins, 41, MaRhonda Collins, 20, and August Roberts, 11, all of Midway, Kentucky. The horror of death by fire is almost unspeakable.  

Four people were killed in a fiery crash at 2:30 this moming on I-75 near Valdosta, when a car and a Penske rental truck collided. The rental truck collided with one vehicle, then came to rest on top of a third vehicle, according to Mike Morris in the AJC. The fire was so intense that…

All my life, I have traveled back and forth across Taylor’s Ridge near Summerville in Chattooga County.  Just last weekend, I drove my dad over that route to attend a reunion at Menlo, where he was principal of the school back when Menlo had a high school and a red light. Driving down the side…

This news story brings out the old prosecutor in me. Sunday evening in Gwinnett County, a young mom walked out to the street to tell a driver who had repeatedly sped through her neighborhood to slow down. But the allegedly drunk driver ran off the road and hit her, crushing her between the front of…

For years both lawyers and insurance claims professionals assumed that a plaintiff could not win a substantial verdict in certain suburban Atlanta counties, notably Cobb and Gwinnett.  Until the past couple of years, I felt the same way. Last week, there was a verdict for $1,937,500 in Cobb County.  The plaintiff was an assistant attorney general…

Georgia had 3,325 traffic accidents, with 868 injury victims and 24 deaths during the Christmas holiday weekend.  At least one of those crashes involved a tractor trailer, though the other driver was at fault. Ken Shigley is a trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia who has been listed among the “Legal Elite” (Georgia Trend Magazine), as a…

Over the years I have shared in the sorrows of a number of parents whose children were grievously injured.  About 14 years ago I even published an article in the Georgia Bar Journal on “Tort Claims Involving Minors in Georgia.”  Along the way I began to see publications from the Centers for Disease Control here…

Atlanta has traffic that only a personal injury lawyer could love.  But I’m a personal injury lawyer, and I don’t love our traffic.  A survey several months ago decided that our  traffic is the 10th worst among major cities in the U.S.  Los Angeles ranked  worst, followed by New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Dallas-Fort Worth,…

The Atlanta Regional Commission determined these to be the 10 most crash-prone intersections in the region.  This is old news, but I doubt that the results would be much different now. –  Austell Road at East-West Connector (Cobb) – Barrett Parkway at Cobb Place Boulevard (Cobb)   – Cobb Parkway at Barrett Parkway  (Cobb)  …