Atlanta Injury Law Blog

Nashville, TN, 8/10/05 A man pumping gasoline was killed when a tractor-trailer truck that had flipped over slid into him. The driver of the semi told troopers he thinks he fell asleep at the wheel. The tractor trailer collided with a pickup truck, then hit an above-ground diesel tank, flipped onto its side, and caught…

We have observed that a lot of Georgia lawyers are having trouble getting up to speed on electronic filing. See article. Fortunately, I have a good paralegal who keeps me straight on these things. Here are links to court rules and attorney registration web sites regarding electronic filing: Northern District (Atlanta, Rome, Gainesville, Newnan) —…

One advantage of serving on the State Bar Board of Governors is early access to proposed rules changes. The latest is the proposed new Georgia Rules of Evidence, prepared over the past few years by the State Bar’s Evidence Study Committee. It is generally based on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Numerous other sections are…

Courts often have been reluctant to allow claims for punitive damages for what some judges have perceived as mere technical violations of hours of service, log book requirements, and other Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. See, e.g., Pittman v. Clay, 2001 WL 1352914 (E.D.Pa.,2001). However, a recent case illustrates how to lay the foundation for…

Georgia law requires an affidavit from a qualified expert in order to file a medical malpractice case, and has stringent requirements for qualifications of such experts. It is virtually impossible to get a qualified expert within the state, so lawyers handling such cases generally start with the assumption that they will have to go out…

Once again a tractor trailer crash has shut down a section of Atlanta’a I-285 perimeter expressway, snarling rush hour traffic. At about 5 AM today, a tractor trailer crashed into the median barrier below the Ashford Dunwoody Road overpass. Injuries were reported, but no details about the cause of the crash or extent of injuries…

In the wake of several horrific truck crashes on metro Atlanta expressways in recent weeks, the State Road and Tollway Authority has released a study proposing three options for trucks-only lanes on the expressways. One option would include two trucks-only toll lanes 24/7 on I-285, I-75 and I-85. The second option would put trucks in…

At least one person was killed Wednesday afternoon, July 26th, when four tractor trailers, a utility-style truck and two passenger vehicles collided on I-285 in Cobb County, shutting northbound lanes for seven hours and sparking an inferno. The cause of the crash and names of trucking companies and victims were not immediately available. See coverage…

It has been a very rainy July in Georgia. All over the state we have seen news coverage of flooding in places that never flooded before. Countless Georgians have seen enormous flood damage to their homes and businesses, and living outside what was normally considered a flood zone, they probably did not have flood insurance.…

This year the Georgia General Assembly adopted a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases. Noneconomic damages include physical and mental pain and suffering, permanent impairment, intangible value of life in a wrongful death case, etc. Today the Supreme Court of Wisconsin released a decision holding a similar Wisconsin statute unconstitutional, as there…