Forbes has rated the best and worst US cities for commuters. Atlanta rated #1 as the worst major city for commuters. Here’s what the article said: Here, in the fastest-growing city in America, more people flood the roadways than the infrastructure can handle. Commuters spend 60 hours a year stuck in traffic, second only to…
Continue reading ›On 1/11/08, a Lavonia, Georgia woman was killed on Highway 17 in Hart County when another vehicle crossed the center line and hit her head on. Georgia State Patrol reported that a 51-year-old Lavonia man faces charges including vehicular homicide and DUI drugs. This report was from Ashley Cox at AccessNorthGa.com. The Shigley Law Firm,…
Continue reading ›At Bamberg, SC, on 1/7/08, a beer truck, a log truck and two empty Freightliners were involved in a fiery pileup when the log truck lost a tire. The beer truck burned completely and its driver died. The two empty trucks were driven by brothers Two men from Rincon, Georgia were driving the empty Freightliners. …
Continue reading ›As a trial attorney handling serious injury and wrongful death cases in Georgia, I have an intense interest in seeing that my clients are dealt with fairly, that the playing field is relatively level, and that the court system works reasonably well. Currently there is a proposal in the legislature to impose a sales tax…
Continue reading ›An explosion at G&S Metals, which processes aluminum scrap in Manchester, Ga., on the morning of Nov. 29 injured at least seven plant employees. No fatalities have been reported. The explosion occurred about 8:45 a.m. Manchester is in Meriweather County about 60 miles south of Atlanta. Approximately 20 employees were working at the plant when an explosion tore…
Continue reading ›Yesterday the Georgia Court of Appeals held that a work-related cell phone call or distraction by such a call that a driver chose not to answer may be enough to support liability of the employer, even though the employee was driving to work from home and was not on a special mission for the employer. …
Continue reading ›My friend Matt Flournoy in Marietta has posted on YouTube an excellent video explaining the extreme forces acting upon the human body in motor vehicle crashes. The Shigley Law Firm represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide in Georgia, and in other states subject to the multijurisdictional practice and pro hac vice…
Continue reading ›The Food & Drug Administration on July 16th approved the first the first artificial cervical disc. According to the developers, the prosthesis simulates the function of a natural cervical disc and provides patients with the ability to move their necks compared to the traditional practice of spinal fusion. The results of the clinical trial show…
Continue reading ›A study published yesterday in The Archives of Internal Medicine, reached the conclusion that doctors’ disclosures about themselves fail to either help patients or establish rapport with the patients. Rather, the study showed that many doctors waste patients’ time and lose their focus in office visits by interjecting irrelevant information about themselves. The researchers started…
Continue reading ›The first catastrophic plaintiff’s case I handled involved brain injury to a toddler in a condo swimming pool that was fenced an nominally locked, though not well enough to keep out a toddler who strayed from her mom who was momentarily distracted with care of a newborn sibling. My own kids were little then, so…
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