Crashes involving specialty trucks of various sorts — crane trucks, concrete mixer trucks, dump trucks, etc. — are often part of my trucking accident personal injury and wrongful death law practice in Georgia. Each type of specialty truck involves somewhat different issues. Yesterday in Walker County — near where I attended school for six years…
Continue reading ›As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I’ve worked with quite a number of spinal cord injury survivors, and have had some good results. But not as good as the verdict a Chicago jury awarded last week. In the Cook County case of Chraca v. Miles, an Illinois DOT vehicle collided with another…
Continue reading ›A few days ago the Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments on constitutionality of the $350,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. Both trial attorneys and members of the medical profession are waiting with bated breath for the court’s ruling. Watch the video of the oral argument and tell me how you think…
Continue reading ›As an Atlanta trucking safety lawyer, I find trucking companies trying to disown their driver’s safety violations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, which are intended to protect safety of the public, require trucking companies to see to it that their employees to obey the driver regulations. 49 C.F.R. § 390.11 requires: “Whenever . .…
Continue reading ›As an injury lawyer in Atlanta, I have dealt with probably thousands of cases of back injuries involving ruptured or bulging intervertebral discs pressing on nerves and causing pain in the back as well as pain, numbness and tingling radiating down arms and legs. This is probably the single most common injury we see resulting…
Continue reading ›As an Atlanta attorney focused on serious personal injury cases, and as an early adopter of internet technology, I have been fascinated by the growing interaction between law, technology and new media. Robert Ambrogi at IMS Expert Services blog has posted 10 examples of bad things that can happen in court as a result of…
Continue reading ›My personal injury litigation law practice in Atlanta has included a number of serious defective product cases. Among them have been tire defect cases. Last week, a Texas jury returned a verdict of nearly $12 million against a tire maker after determining that a defective tire caused a wreck that killed six people and left…
Continue reading ›Handling bus and truck liability cases in my Atlanta law practice, I have seen way too many kids killed or seriously injured in bus accidents. Recently I had represented several of the young men who were on the Bluffton University baseball team bus that crashed in Atlanta. Yesterday in Atlanta, a school bus driver lost…
Continue reading ›The tort reform legislation that passed the Georgia legislature in 2005 involved an unfortunate clash between the medical and legal professions. Then just a rank and file attorney handling catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases in metro Atlanta, and a back row member of the State Bar Board of Governors, I had no real leverage…
Continue reading ›As an Atlanta, Georgia attorney handling many commercial truck accident cases, I am often asked about how important punitive damage claims are in these cases. In Georgia, punitive damages are allowed “only in such tort actions in which it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant’s actions showed willful misconduct, malice, fraud,…
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