Atlanta Injury Law Blog

Atlanta has traffic that only a personal injury lawyer could love.  But I’m a personal injury lawyer, and I don’t love our traffic.  A survey several months ago decided that our  traffic is the 10th worst among major cities in the U.S.  Los Angeles ranked  worst, followed by New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Dallas-Fort Worth,…

On I-95 in Virginia on December 1, a woman was killed when her Honda SUV was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in a six-vehicle crash, and was wedged beneath the truck when it ignited. Kamala St. Germain, 75, was the founder of DoveStar, a massage and alternative healing school with locations in several states. Ironically, before…

This week there have been two news bulletins about cement truck rollover which, fortunately, did not cause any serious injuries. It could be a lot worse. I learned through one recent case that standard concrete industry truck driver training materials emphasize how handling characteristics of such vehicles differ from other trucks. With the high center…

If you have spent much time driving on the metro Atlanta expressways you have probably seen ladders and mattresses that had fallen from pickup trucks and car roofs.  Occasionally there are cases of catastrophic injury or death caused when people traveling at expressway speeds encounter such random obstacles. Of course it is seldom if ever…

NOTE TO TRUCK DRIVERS: Our law practice focuses on representation of people who are seriously injured, and families of those killed, in crashes with large commercial vehicles. While those are often truck drivers, we do not handle truckers’ employment law matters. For legal advice on issues with your employer, see Truckers Justice Center.  In my…

A  federal court jury in  Kansas has returned a $23.5 million verdict arising from a 2006 wreck in New Mexico, according to an article by Ron Sylvester of the Wichita Eagle. The court cut the amount to $15.3 million because the jury decided the driver of the Swift Transportation was only 65 percent at fault…

As a trucking trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, I too often find truck drivers who were not medically qualified to drive large commercial trucks. We had one recent case in which the truck driver had chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, which was a disqualifying condition. His own physician testified that he was supposed to use supplemental…

In my law practice in Atlanta, Georgia, we get inquiries about hospital, nursing home or home health care patients who die or suffer serious injuries due to being entrapped in a gap between the mattress and guard rail in a hospital bed. If you have ever spent night after night in a hospital room keeping…

While I make my living and support my family as a trial lawyer representing people badly in hurt in truck and bus crashes — and the surviivors of those who do not survive — the ultimate objective is to improve safety and reduce the incidence of future injuries and deaths. While much of safety management…

As a trial lawyer in Georgia, I have often represented people who became quadriplegic or paraplegic due to traumatic spinal cord injury.  The lack of effective treatments to reverse spinal cord damage has condemned people with such injuries to life in a wheelchair, or worse. Now, nanotechnology researchers at Northwestern University  are working on a…