Atlanta Injury Law Blog

The Supreme Court of Georgia yesterday struck down the provision of SB 3, the omnibus tort reform bill passed in 2005, which required a plaintiff to provide a medical records authorization authorizing ex parte discussions with all treating physicians, upon filing of any medical malpractice suit.  The Supreme Court held that this requirement was preempted…

Here’s a great post at the Virginia Injury Lawyer Blog on how to get great settlements. The most important factors are the willingness to work hard, think hard, try cases to verdict, and take risks. In that regard, I am reminded of The Book of Five Rings, a reflection on the zen of individual combat…

I just got word last night of a $9 million jury verdict in Chambers County, Alabama, in a case involving a maintenance man raping a 60 year old woman. My friend Pete Law won that one. Along with our $2.3 million verdict on a fractured femur truck wreck case in Gordon County, Georgia, these cases…

Two articles in the May 9th  New York Times highlight a pattern of pharmaceutical industry payments of doctors being linked to dramatically increased prescriptions of questionable drugs. First, one report indicates that pharmaceutical companies have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors in return for prescribing anemia drugs, the safety and effectiveness of which…

Here’s how to obtain a client’s Claims Index report for $25 from American Insurance Services Group, the form for which has now been posted on the Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog. The Shigley Law Firm  represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide in Georgia, and in other states subject to the multijurisdictional practice…

We have all seen the media coverage of the Washington, DC administrative law judge who sued a “mom and pop” dry cleaner for $65 million over a lost pair of trousers.  Those who want to destroy the civil justice system are trying to make this another “McDonald’s hot coffee case”  to  mislead  the public into…

The April 30th issue of Fulton County Daily Report  includes an interview with Chief Judge Dee Downs of Fulton Superior Court.  (She and I made some stump speeches together in her first campaign, as I filled in as a surrogate for the successful candidate for another seat on the same court.)  The judge, who career…

At 3:41 AM on Sunday, a tanker truck crashed and burned at the intersection of three freeways, causing the collapse of an overpass.  This will likely  snarl commutes for hundreds of thousands of people for months until repairs can  be completed.  California officials are urging residents to shift to public transit and telecommuting due to…

A report which will be published in May in the Michigan Law Review.confirms what most tort law practitioners have long recognized: the defense has a strong advantage in medical malpractice trials. Philip Peters Jr., of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, concluded that juries treat doctors favorably, “perhaps unfairly so,” and are more likely…