Atlanta Injury Law Blog

Four people were injured in a multi-vehicle accident on Thursday morning, June 12th, near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport that involved an airport shuttle bus. A Hilton Hotel van, a Ford pickup truck and a Ford Focus collided at the intersection of Loop Road and Toffee Terrace around 8:25 a.m., the East Point Fire Department said in…

On Monday, General Motors recalled another 3.16 million vehicles built between 2000 and 2014. This was because those vehicles have ignition switches that “may inadvertently move out of the ‘run’ position if the key is carrying extra weight and experiences some jarring event.” That comes on top of last weeks’ defective products recall in which…

In Chattooga County, GA, near where I spent my childhood, a log truck jack knifed Friday and struck an oncoming passenger car. Two women in the car were transported to a hospital in Rome. Fortunately, an infant in the car, apparently secured in an infant seat, appeared to be unharmed. From the news photo and…

A Georgia tractor trailer driver for Wal-Mart who had been continuously awake for 24 years caused a deadly pile-up early Saturday morning in New Jersey.  Although details are still emerging about the crash, we do know a Georgia truck driver is charged in the New Jersey crash that killed comic James McNair, 62, of Peekskill,…

It was a Friday evening in Gainesville Georgia. Three-year-old twins John and Koraleigh were in their grandparents’ front yard with teenage brothers and their girlfriends. The teens had brought a television from inside and were planning a “movie under the stars.” Mom was at her home next door but assumed the children were being watched…

There is good news at the beginning of Georgia’s summer boating season.  The Georgia Department of Natural Resources reported Wednesday that there were ten less Boating Under the Influence (BUI) arrests this Memorial Day weekend compared to last year. In 2013, the legislature passed and Governor Nathan Deal signed into law legislation lower the blood-alcohol…

The minimum insurance requirements for interstate general freight trucking have remained unchanged since 1980 while the purchasing power of that amount of money can continually eroded. Such long delays can produce updates that, when they come, can seem abrupt. Last week, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC) recommended…

Memorial Day is supposed to be about remembering the sacrifices of people who fought and too often died for a cause in defending America’s freedom. Earlier in May, my wife and I visited the Normandy American Cemetery, and placed flags on the graves of Georgia soldiers there. It was a stark reminder of the valor…

In the nearly four decades since I entered law school, I have seen several waves of automotive defects leading to massive recalls and liability claims. The first that caught my attention was the Ford Pinto, designed with a protruding bolt positioned to pierce the gas tank upon rear impact. Ford knew of the problem but…

The following is a guest post from Richard Escoffery, a partner at Elarbee Thompson, a labor, employment and complex commercial litigation law firm. Twenty years ago, while in law school at Emory, Mr. Escoffery was a research assistant in our firm. He is listed in Best Lawyers® in America, Georgia’s Top Rated Lawyers, AV® Peer…