Atlanta Injury Law Blog

As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the tragic truck and bus accidents with which I am all to familiar is the crash of a bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team in Atlanta last March. A Saturday morning crash of a Van Hool tour bus operated by Endeavor Bus Lines in Florida illustrates the…

As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, handling catastrophic truck accident cases, I often need to use accident reconstruction experts.  Following are some of the factors that the reconstruction expert may consider in such an analyis, as summarized by my Tennessee co-counsel Morgan Adams: Center of mass formula. The formula to determine the center of…

Truck driver fatigue was the apparent cause of a fiery crash in a construction zone on I-39 in Illinois on January 2nd.  The truck driver admitted that he fell asleep entering the construction zone.  The tractor trailer crashed into multiple vehicles, killing three innocent travelers. I don’t just represent people who are run over by…

Two recent  crashes of buses transporting Hispanic immigrant passengers highlight problems in safety of charter and tour buses, particularly those providing low-priced transportation for that market segment. Investigation of a recent Capricorn Bus Lines crash in Victoria, Texas, revealed that  the company has been cited 19 times in the past three years for issues ranging from incomplete driver…

A Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer collided Wednesday near Henderson, NC.  The bus plunged down an embankment and overturned, injuring at least 29 people.  The bus was traveling from Richmond, Va., to Raleigh on U.S. 1 when it collided with the tractor-trailer as a tractor-trailer ahead of it made a turn and the bus failed…

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed changing Commercial Drivers Licence (CDL) requirements to require actual driver training.  Sure it seems like a radical idea to require drivers of 80,000 pound tractor trailers to have some training behind the wheel before they get on the highway, but the feds are here to help us,…

Towers Perrin Tillinghast is an insurance consulting firm whose annual Update on U.S. Tort Cost Trends has been a highly controversial source of data for tort reform advocates.  Crtiics have long accused Towers Perrin of bias as a shill for the insurance industry providing biased, contorted numbers to support an advocacy position.  Now the company…

I spent most of this week trying a truck wreck case in Macon, GA, in the State Court of Bibb County.  While the jury was deliberating, the defense made an offer my client felt he could not afford to refuse ($850,000 for aggravation of preexisting degenerative condition resulting in cervical fusion),so the process stopped short…

The current FMCSA hours of service rule for truck drivers has been subject to much criticism on multiple grounds.  Now a Minnesota-based motor carrier has applied for an exemption in order to try another method of fatigue management.  Considering the merits of night-time sleep and power naps when fatigued during the day, with electronic monitoring,…

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a list of the nation’s 54 worst nursing homes.  Three in Georgia are on the list: