Atlanta Injury Law Blog

As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, and engaged with attorneys handling these cases from coast to coast, I try to keep up with the continuing shell game as the folks responsible for putting truckers on the road and pushing them often beyond both the rules and their capacity, seek to avoid accountability…

Corporate shell games to avoid accountability for injuring or killing people are all too common. We see it an a variety of contexts. Today I got an email outlining how attorneys for nursing homes are directing their clients to lower their insurance coverage to $100,000 and set up an intricate network of corporate entities to…

We’ve all heard the “Philadelphia lawyer” stereotype.  Now Molly Peckman at the Legal Intelligencer in Philly has interviewed an array of “lawyers’ lawyers” in the City of Brotherly Love to compile a list of traits that make a lawyer great.  And of course we have heard the cynical observation that “a good lawyer knows the…

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the problem of lawyers — most but not all of whom are fairly young — who have been laid off from big law firms or whose job offers have been rescinded at such firms. It’s an interesting whipsaw of fortune compared to the unsustainably high salaries…

The blogging gurus have told me not to write blog posts like legal briefs. So much for short, bullet pointed blog posts.  If I want to write a law review article and put in on my blog, complete with exhaustive legal citations, in order to share some creative legal thinking with lawyers, judges and judicial…

Today in Bartow, Florida, a jury returned a $65 million verdict — all compensatory damages, no punitives — in a truck crash case against Bynum Transport. I understand the case involved a stop light collision with contested liability. The damage award was apparently all to fund a huge life care plan for severely brain damaged…

A fatal truck crash in the Philadelphia area involved such egregious safety violations that vehicular homicide charges have been brought against: – The driver. He had been ordered to be taken out of service on four of six compliance checks since June due to faulty brakes and a falsified log-book. Before the fatal crash he…

When you or a loved one have been badly hurt in a catastrophic trucking accident, you may expect someone from the trucking company or its insurer to try to lull you into complacency. The objective is to avoid paying the value of the case, which they recognize is substantial. The tactics may remind you of…

  There’s a disturbing report out of Washington that has nothing to do with truck accidents or litigation, but about which I’m writing anyway. Reportedly the Obama administration is considering a proposal to bill veterans’ private individual insurance carriers for treatment of service-related medical conditions at Veterans Administration medical center.  Currently the VA bills insurer…

If I were conscripted to listen to sit quietly in court and listen to lawyers, judges and witnesses talk all day, I would probably doodle some. Now there is a web site dedicated to art by real jurors while on jury duty.  See the American Gallery of Juor Art.