Atlanta Injury Law Blog

In Georgia in 2008, out of all traffic fatalities, 28% involved a driver who was legally drunk, with blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 or higher. While the incidence of drunk driving has decreased somewhat over the past couple of decades with stiffer enforcement, it is still too high. A single instance of drunk driving…

The following is a sample of some of this summer’s tragic headlines about drowning and near-drowning incidents: “Child drowns in township pool,” “3 year old boy drowns in pool,” “Coops Save Tot from Near-drowning in Huntington Pool.” News stories often make it sound like a near-drowning is much less serious than a drowning. That is not necessarily…

One of the biggest headaches today in representing senior citizens in personal injury cases is the Medicare Secondary Payer Act.  Whenever Medicare has paid for treatment, or may in the future pay for any treatment even tangentially related, it may demand repayment out of a personal injury settlement. So far, so good, at least in…

Eulogy for My Father Robert Nelson Shigley, June 25, 1924 – May 27, 2010 Mentone Community Church Mentone, Alabama May 30, 2010 Daddy was born a few hundreds yards from here in a farm house built around a pioneer log cabin. It was a time before paved roads or electricity came to the mountain. His…

Yesterday in the Savannah area, heavy rain led to two hydroplaning crashes involving tractor trailers. According to a report by Tuyaquen Mach on WSAV, In one crash on I-95 at Jimmy Deloach Parkway, a UPS truck pulling two trailers hydroplaned and hit two vehicles. One of the trailers, reported to be carrying hazardous materials, flipped…

Injury victims who are even close to being old enough to become Medicare beneficiaries are currently victims of a Kafkaesque nightmare than adds insult to injury and interminable bureaucratic delay to the delays already involved in the court system. The Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) system was intended to ensure that Medicare does not pay for…

A great trial lawyer passed from the scene last week after a valiant battle with cancer. Fred Orr has served as president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association just last year. He was a trial lawyer for 46 years and practiced the last 35 years in the same building near the courthouse in Decatur. Fred…

As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I often see how truck driver fatigue contributes to 18 wheeler, semi truck accidents. I’ve seen tragic cases where truckers tried to make it from Milwaukee to Tampa without required rest breaks, cases where truck drivers crashed when they fell asleep in their 18th or 20th…

  As an attorney representing people injured in tractor trailer accidents in Georgia, I often see how truck driver fatigue contributes to 18 wheeler, semi truck accidents. I’ve seen tragic cases where  truck drivers crashed when they fell asleep in their 18th or 20th hour behind the wheel,  cases where truckers tried to make it…

Click here for my video discussion the role of speed in trucking accidents. Ken Shigley is a truck and bus safety trial attorney representing seriously injured people and families of people killed in tractor trailer, big rig, semi, intermodal container freight, log truck, cement truck, dump truck, log truck and bus accidents statewide in Georgia.…