Atlanta Injury Law Blog

Police in Kings Mountain, NC, say a driver’s lack of understanding of the English language appears to have led to a violent wreck between a train and a tractor-trailer.  Truck driver Ricardo Ercia was crossing several train lines in town at South Battleground Avenue and Oak Street when he didn’t obey a traffic sign calling…

I found a  painting by Jeff Leedy a few years ago in an art gallery in Sausalito titled “Counsel Approaching the Bench,” with two shark fins cutting through the courtroom carpet toward the judge’s bench. (I encourage readers to follow the link above and purchase the print.) This morning a client told me I was…

When Ford acquired Volvo a few years ago, I thought it was quite a mismatch of corporate cultures. Volvo had a reputation for building the world’s safest cars.  Ford, on the other hand, sometimes seemed only slightly ahead of Yugo in that regard.  I have owned Volvos for 20 years.  I bought the first one,…

The Middleton (Ohio) Journal is running a series on the Bluffton University baseball team bus crash in Atlanta last March.   I am privileged to be part of the team of lawyers representing the baseball team members and families.  This case raises serious and far reaching questions about both highway design and bus safety.  The Shigley…

Truck drivers who deliver virtually everything we purchase account for nearly 15% of all work related deaths, and are more at risk than other Americans for a wide variety of health problems.  With a largely sedentary lifestyle, generally alone on the road, many have poor access to — and give low priority to —  healthy…

At Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on Saturday afternoon, a Mississippi tractor trailer driver crossed the highway center line and killed a mother and four children.  Those killed were LaKetria Wells, 26, of Monticello, a prison guard at the state Cummins Unit, and her children, LaKiyah Wells, 7; Kaleb Jarrell Stokes, 5; Keyshon Wells, 4; and LaKayla…

Lawrenceville, GA, 7/12/07 – A tractor trailer driver who admitted to police that he had fallen asleep at the wheel rear-ended a Honda at Georgia 316 and US 29.  All four Mexican immigrant occupants of the Honda were killed.  They were identified as Juan Gutierrez Medina, 36,  Andres Juan Gutierrez, 19, Virginia Jimenez-Cabrera, 38, and…

Jury selection (really deselection) is more art than science and involves at least as much luck as skill.  However, the public attitudes of a time and place are a factor.  That’s why I read public opinion surveys with a great deal of interest. From June 28 to July 3, 2007, Peter D. Hart Research Associates,…

Twelve years ago I took a little six-year-old first grade boy to his first Tiger Cubs meeting.  He was so bouncy we sometimes jokingly referred to him as “Tigger.”  Before that meeting he was literally climbing the structural beams in the walls in the church classroom and tagging the ceiling. The gentleman who was in…