Atlanta Injury Law Blog

The downturn in world financial markets bodes ill for people injured by the negligence of others, as insurance companies are likely to ramp up new calls for additional “tort reform” in order to make up for their investment losses. We have seen it several times before.  In the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s, insurance companies raised…

As an attorney handling trucking accident cases in Atlanta, Georgia, I frequently deal with issues of truck driver fatigue, and the controversy over the change in hours-of-service rules that wears out drivers while enabling shippers and trucking companies to squeeze more work hours out of them.  Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an appropriately named…

1/22/08, 6:45 AM. At Bloomingdale, in Chatham County near Savannah, a tractor trailer ran a stop sign and t-boned a pickup, killing a woman in the smaller vehicle.  Whether the tractor trailer driver was fatigued from driving all night, or if there was some other underlying cause, is not revealed in the initial media report.…

Justice delayed is justice denied.  Brian Nichols is charged with escape when he overcame a deputy and took her gun, and with the murders of Judge Roland Barnes in his courtroom at Fulton County Superior Court, a court reporter also in the courtroom, a deputy sheriff outside the courthouse, and a federal officer several miles…

Occasionally we get calls from potential clients who are interested in a possible malpractice suit based on alleged malpractice in a hospital emergency room. Even if the medical treatment appears to fall short of an appropriate standard of care, we have to explain to them that as a practical matter there is no case. The…

Here is another one of those stories about a spinal cord injury survivor that is both heart breaking and inspirational — a former high school cheerleader paralyzed in a freak accident who is focused on her physical therapy, hoping for the day that stem cell treatment might help her. She has even gone scuba diving.…

At the Board of Governors meeting on January 12th, a couple of very kind and generous friends put my name in nomination for Secretary of the State Bar of Georgia.  Perhaps that is in the “be careful what you ask for” category. Let’s just say it’s on my “bucket list” (though I’m in good health).  …

As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, often representing survivors of  spinal cord injuries,  both paraplegia and quadriplegia, I have dealth  with effects of such injuries about which most people know nothing. Among those are pressure sores, muscle spasticity and autonomic dysreflexia. Of course, this brief post is not medical advice, just an expression of…

  As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georiga, representing clients who have  spinal cord injuries,  both paraplegia and quadriplegia, I have  become familiar with effects of such injuries about which most people know nothing. Among those are muscle spasticity and autonomic dysreflexia. Of course, this incomplete and over-simplified post cannot constitute medical advice, only an…

The Fulton County Daily Report has published my analysis of the unintended consequences of a sales tax on legal services, an earlier draft of which appeared in this blog a couple of days ago. It must have been a slow news day because they gave me a full page.