Atlanta Injury Law Blog

The current issue of Safety Report magazine carries an article by Charlie Morecraft, “A Burn Survivor’s True Story.”   It shows more insight about the experience of burn injuries more than anything I have read.  Some excerpts:   I’ve been there, can vouch for the accuracy of those descriptions, but by the grace of God am…

The Centers for Disease Control released last week a report on truck driver health risks related to Irregular schedules, long hours of work, poor diet and nutrition, and the stress of driving in heavy traffic and bad weather. The CDC reported: Life expectancy: 61 for truck drivers, 77 for national average. Obesity: 50% of commercial…

Jim Langevin was paralyzed from the chest down in a gunfire accident as a teenager 30 years ago while working as a police volunteer. For 10 years he has been the only quadriplegic in the U.S. Congress. Before being elected to Congress, he was Rhode Island’s secretary of state and also served in the General…

Monday was a rainy day here, and in the rain there were at least three tractor trailer wrecks on the Atlanta expressways. The worst was on I-285 Northbound just above I-20 West, as a tractor trailer overturned after colliding with at least one other vehicle. One of the basic rules for operation of a large…

In our trucking accident litigation practice in Georgia, I sometimes run across fly-by-night trucking companies with terrible safety ratings that go out of business but then reopen under another name and DOT number but with the same people and equipment. Sometimes I have a case against the old company with a terrible record. Other times…

A quadriplegic since 1995, Paul Boyd has sued the Alabama Medicaid agency in an effort to get home-based care that would enable him to move out of a nursing home where he now lives. Boyd argues that the agency would save money by letting him live in a house, with some assistance. He wants to…

Over the years I have been amazed and inspired by the indomitable spirit of clients who are paralyzed by traumatic spinal cord injuries. One client who was a quadriplegic was determined to get back to teaching college and writing books with adaptive technology. A young woman who became paraplegic in an accident finished college, earned her…

As a trucking accident trial attorney in Georgia, half of my work seems to be ferreting out the facts that the other side wants to conceal. For years much of the challenge has been in attempting to prove driver fatigue by piercing the fog of deception in paper driver logs that are referred to in…

As a trucking accident injury trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I sometimes run across truck drivers about whom I wonder how they ever passed a medical exam. In a case last year, when I dug into records and took depositions, I found that a truck driver with extensive heart disease had open heart surgery. Soon…

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