Atlanta Injury Law Blog

President Obama has signed legislation killing the Transportation Department’s controversial test of longhaul cross-border trucking with Mexico. As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I haven’t yet seen problems with Mexican truckers but I do see truckers who don’t speak English although adequate English proficiency is required under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety…

Kudos to my State Senator, Judson Hill (R-Marietta), sponsor of Senate Bill 94, which if passed would allow adult offspring to maintain coverage under their parents health insurance up to age 25, regardless of school enrollment status. In the current economy, jobs of any kind are tough for young people just out of school to…

Truck driver fatigue is one of the most obvious causes of truck crashes. Obstructive sleep apnea is among the most common contributing factors. Obesity is a big risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea. Now there is another study reconfirming the obvious: that obesity-driven testing strategies identify commercial truck drivers with a high likelihood of obstructive…

Trucking is among the more dangerous occupations. A significant percentage of my work as a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta is representation of injured truck drivers and their survivors when a crash is caused not by the trucker, but by another motorist. Many lawyers in such situations may overlook the fact that many trucking…

This morning I met with a family who suffered a tragic loss when a tractor trailer ran over the parents late in 2008.  The mother was killed and the father seriously injured.  They got me involved a couple of weeks after the crash when one of the sons found me on the Internet and invited me…

Trucking is a dangerous occupation. A lot of my work as a trucking safety trial attorney in Georgia involves representing injured truck drivers and survivors of truckers who are killed due to someone else’s carelessness. An often overlooked factor is that a lot of trucking insurance policies include substantial uninsured motorist (UM) insurance coverage. That means…

Handling truck accident injury and death cases in Georgia, I have often seen how inadequate the levels of insurance coverage can be for the havoc created by large truck crashes. Now there are efforts to catch up the levels of coverage for 29 years of inflation. The current levels of insurance coverage required for interstate…

Driver fatigue is one of the major causes of large truck crashes, though perhaps less so than prescription and over the counter medications. The battle over truck drivers’ hours of service rules has raged for six years now. I won’t repeat the whole controversy here. While there is much more detail, the short version is…

The tragdy of spinal cord injury may be alleviated in the future if researchers at Northwestern University are right. They are working on use of nanofibers to get disconnected nerve cells to regrow. The idea is to inject a liquid containing  molecules called peptide amphiphiles to generate nerve growth.  Studies with lab animals with severed…

As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, I often see cases involving medically unfit drivers. I’ve seen cases where truckers were blind in one eye, were supposed to carry an oxygen tank 24/7 for COPD, or had untreated obstructive sleep apnea, all medically disqualifying conditions. Fortunately, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has initiated…