Blog Archive - August, 2012

Birth injury cases in this day and age may come as a shock when considering the amount of medical technology advancements today. Birth injury cases have many loopholes that can leave many birth injury children and their parents without legal recourse. However, a recent case in San Louis Obispo, California has given hope to many parents dealing with a child suffering a birth injury as a result of medical malpractice.

What if you are injured in a Georgia auto accident but have previous injuries? Many injury victims may not initially consider this a significant issue. If you become involved in a personal injury claim or lawsuit involving a serious car crash, you will see the importance of this issue.

While many people involved in car accidents have a gut instinct about who is at-fault, this type of intuitive feel is not evidence and will not help you prove that a careless driver is responsible for causing your injuries in a Georgia car crash.

Most families make at least one or more trips to the local grocery store each week to stock up on food and other household supplies. While these trips usually occur without significant incident, occasionally these grocery store trips end in dangerous slip and fall accidents.

Although hazing has been a rite of passage in many fraternities and sororities around the country, hazing incidents are now becoming much more common in a wide range of settings including clubs, sports teams and the armed services.

If you are shopping for a new motor vehicle, the safety afforded by the car, pickup truck or SUV that you purchase should be a significant factor in making a selection. This is particularly true if you have small children.

Technological improvements in electronic stabilization control (ESC) are turning the tide on SUV rollover accidents. Prior to the development of ESC technology, SUVs were among the most dangerous vehicles on Georgia streets and highways. Their high center of gravity and narrow wheelbase made them prone to fatal SUV rollover accidents.

Construction areas or work zones are amongst the most dangerous stretches of roadway for the potential of being involved in a serious auto accident in Georgia. The streets of Atlanta are especially dangerous, as a substantial number of roadway construction projects are always under way.

Car accidents continue to cause serious injury and death to many throughout Georgia and the U.S., with over 5.5 million auto accidents annually. While no one plans to be involved in a Georgia auto accident, most drivers assume that if one occurs they can seek compensation from the other driver who caused their Georgia auto accident.

People of all ages are familiar with the children’s chant "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." The problem is that words, whether spoken or written, can and do hurt many people causing serious irreparable injury to their professional and business reputation.

If you are the parent of a teen driver, the issue of text messaging while driving already may have been a subject of discussion between you and your kids. If the subject has not yet come up, it probably should because text messaging while driving is a growing cause of Georgia auto collisions. If your kids are like many that I know, they may seem almost addicted to texting, which can make it difficult to get them to adhere to a no texting while driving policy. Sadly, texting by teens behind the wheel is an increasingly significant danger to teens and young adults as well as other motorist with whom they share the road. Almost half of all teens say that they have been a passenger in a vehicle while another teen driver was texting. Because teen drivers often disregard texting restrictions while driving, a new app offers to take this decision out of their hands by disabling a teen’s cell phone when they are in a motor vehicle.

A serious motor vehicle collision can change one’s life forever in ways that impact every aspect of your day-to-day experience. Injuries suffered in an Atlanta car accident that involve the amputation of a limb or even a finger or toe can be devastating.

Most of us have had the experience of driving along down a road and feeling a sudden jolt to our vehicle as it drops of the edge of the roadway because the pavement or roadway is uneven.