Articles Posted in Injury Law

Today’s issue of LawyersUSA includes an article by Corey Stephenson quotes me on defense medical exams (which are otherwise jokingly referred to as “independent” medical exams).  Here are a few excepts from the longer article. One point I made in the interview is that most defense medical exam doctors refuse to do the exam if…

The blogging gurus have told me not to write blog posts like legal briefs. So much for short, bullet pointed blog posts.  If I want to write a law review article and put in on my blog, complete with exhaustive legal citations, in order to share some creative legal thinking with lawyers, judges and judicial…

This morning I met with a family who suffered a tragic loss when a tractor trailer ran over the parents late in 2008.  The mother was killed and the father seriously injured.  They got me involved a couple of weeks after the crash when one of the sons found me on the Internet and invited me…

As a personal injury trial lawyer in Georgia, I have often told clients that they do not want what goes with the kind of case that makes headlines. It is better to have good health than a multi-million dollar injury case. A recent New Jersey case is a good illustration of that. In 1999, an Aramark…

When cell phones and then text messaging came along, a lot of folks just figured they could drive as safely talking on a cell phone as talking to a passenger. I was one of them.   A couple of years ago we began to see reports of studies showing that driving while talking on a cell…

Though my accident and injury law practice is in Atlanta, Georgia,  I recently spent ten days in southern California, where I saw the heavy marketing for hands-free devices for cell phone due to the new law that went into effect on July 1.   In California, it is now against the law to drive a vehicle…

As an attorney representing citizens in cases of catastrophic injury, I depend upon courts being fair, evenhanded and impartial.  Georgia judges are relatively nonpolitical and fair to both sides. An analysis of the Mississippi Supreme Court shows how bad it can get when courts become politicized.  According to an article by Alex Alston of the…

Legal listservs are an invaluable resource in any practice area.  I have actively participated in some of them and have obtained great benefit in my practice. Occasionally lawyers I meet around Georgia are very kind in their comments about finding value in my contributions on the listservs. One thing, however, that puzzles me is the…

There was a potentially significant decision on February 19th in the Georgia Court of Appeals. It involves two of the most notriously scandalous avoidances of accountability in metro Atlanta — taxi cabs and the City of Atlanta — as well as the notoriously tough area of DOT liability for road design and maintenance.  I’m confident…

Saturday morning, at the request of a patient’s family  who urgently want to provide for his care needs, I visited an intensive care unit at Grady Memorial Hospital to attempt to interview a man who became a quadriplegic in a recent traffic collision. Laying paralyzed in a bed, breathing through a tube, he was too…