Atlanta Injury Law Blog

It’s a long way from experiments with lab mice to clinical treatment of humans, and as a Georgia trial attorney in Atlanta, I only represent human spinal cord injury survivors. However, it is interesting to observe progress in animal experiments that may someday carry over to treatment of humans. According to an article published in Nature…

Accutane is a drug originally developed for cancer treatment but that has been widely used for treatment of acne. Unfortunately, there have been widespread reports of terrible side effects, including bowel diseases including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. It was taken off the market last year.  As an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, handling civil liability…

The word on the extended family grapevine tonight is that my wife’s cousin’s daughter, Alex McArthur, a recent Davidson College graduate, has been named Ms. Wheelchair America for the coming year. She has been in a wheelchair three years due to muscular dystrophy. Last year, one of our clients, Alyson Roth, a spinal cord injury…

For an attorney handling Georgia brain injury cases, the difficulty of sorting out causes and effects is both frustrating and fascinating. Now there is a study reporting that head trauma may produce a motor neuron disease syndrome that looks like ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. In fact, the researchers hypothesize…

The primary runoff election yesterday produced a muddled outcome and likely runoff for Governor, but one unambiguously clear and positive winner. Sam Olens, who until recently was chair of the Cobb County Commission and the Atlanta Regional Council, won his party’s nomination for Attorney General in a landslide. I have known Sam as a professional colleague,…

Today the Georgia DOT settled for $600,000 a hotly contested wrongful death case that included claims of negligent right of way maintenance by the City of Hapeville, negligent highway design by GDOT, negligent taxi inspection by the City of Atlanta, and a taxi operating with bald tires on a rain slick roadway. The more significant…

My good friend Steve Gursten in Michigan just called to my attention a Michigan Supreme Court decision that s overturned  the nation’s harshest auto accident threshold law. Under former Michigan case law, attorneys had told many people they had “no case” because Michigan law required that a bodily function be completely altered. Thus, people with…

As a Georgia trucking accident trial attorney based in Atlanta, one of the things I always look at after a catastrophic crash is whether a truck driver was dangerously fatigued due, in part, to violation of hours of service rules. It looks like the rules may change yet again. Prior to 2003, interstate truckers could…

If you ever suffer a major injury in metro Atlanta and are still able to talk, remember to say, “take me to Grady.”  This is important because treatment at  a Level 1 trauma center significantly improves prospects of successful outcome. A recent article on “The Effects of Trauma Center Care, Admission Volume, and Surgical Volume…

Spinal cord injury survivors may someday have more hope for functional recovery. An article in Brain by James Fawcett at Cambridge University summarizes research papers reporting functional recovery following a variety of treatments. These have included interventions that affect myelin inhibitory molecules and their receptors, or inhibitory chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans, and treatments in which the…