Articles Posted in Trucking Litigation

As a Georgia trucking attorney, I sometimes see motor carriers create a shell game in which they claim after a tragic accident happens, to have been acting as a broker or logistics company, rather than as a motor carrier. Of course, when you dig into their marketing materials, they usually represented to shipping customers they…

Many lawyers think that a tractor trailer crash is just a big car wreck. Not knowing how much they don’t know, they fail to take necessary steps to preserve and develop evidence. So how can you as a consumer identify an appropriate lawyer for a trucking accident case? My friend Morgan Adams in Chattanooga recently…

Too many attorneys  think that a tractor trailer collision is just a bigger car wreck.  They know not that they know not , and therefore do not spot the issues or take the steps required  to preserve and develop evidence or reach all the sources of insurance coverage. In my Georgia personal injury practice, I…

I’ve been in St. Louis for the past couple of days serving on the faculty of the first national continuing legal education program sponsored by the new Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America.  As usual, I’ve learned more than I’ve taught.  After all, if I can give everyone one new idea, but 20 other…

In my trucking litigation law practice based in Atlanta, I see plenty of instances where drug use — including prescription medications — appears to be a contributing factor in trucking accidents. Now the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report on truckers’ drug tests that helps explain how and why. Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio…

As a personal injury attorney in Atlanta, I was initially one of those who feared the worst when the Georgia legislature passed it omnibus tort reform legislation, Senate Bill 3, in 2005.   It was as if the political power structure had done everything it possibly could to kill victims of negligence — and the lawyers…

As a trial lawyer representing injury victims in trucking accident cases in Georgia, I’m always on the lookout for medications affecting driver alertness.  Another suspect medication has been added to the list. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a warning Thursday on the anti-smoking drug Chantix, advising medical examiners “to not qualify anyone currently…

This afternoon I spoke on “Successful  Advocacy in a Trucking Case” in an American Association for Justice Litigating Trucking Cases Teleseminar. Morgan Adams of Chattanooga spoke on Electronic On Board Recorders, while Robert Collins of Houston spoke on Daubert Issues & Biomechanists.  As usual, I got more from the seminars that I contributed. The Shigley…

Last Friday,  an Atlanta jury returned a verdict of $54.4 million in a truck wreck case involving the death of a a Jamaican immigrant. It was a great verdict resulting from great trial advocacy. Of the $54.4 million in the verdict, $44.4 million was punitive damages. In my post about the verdict, I wondered how…

This morning I got a call from a man in ICU at one of our local hospitals. He said he has hit by a tractor trailer yesterday, and that he had two fractured femurs, a ruptured spleen, ruptured discs, crushed vertebra, etc., and asked if I could meet him at the hospital.  I agreed to…