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While it has long been acknowledged that drowsy driving is extremely unsafe, two new studies provide insight into factors that might explain why accidents related to sleep deprivation are on the rise.

If you are involved in a car accident that causes vehicle damage and personal injury, you are likely to incur substantial expenses such as hospital bills, medical expenses, lost wages, future diminished earnings and other damages.

While the issue of time limits and deadlines may seem like an inconsequential matter of “procedural housekeeping,” auto accident victims need to understand the importance of meeting timing requirements in the legal system.

With schools out for the summer, parents need to be hyper-vigilant about the safety of their teen behind the wheel.

Motorcyclists are uniquely vulnerable to road hazards that might not be noticeable to drivers in a car, pickup, or SUV.

Most drivers have confronted a stray cat or dog in the road and been forced to engage in evasive maneuvers to avoid hitting the animal.

Neck and back injuries typically are among the most painful injuries suffered by those injured in motor vehicle accidents of all types.

Drivers who engage in text messaging while traveling down the freeway at 65 mph or more present a serious danger to everyone else on the road.

While drivers that fail to drive prudently or to obey traffic safety laws pose a danger to everyone with whom they share the road, pedestrians are particularly vulnerable to careless drivers. Many pedestrian accidents are the product of drivers who are under the influence of alcohol or distracted behind the wheel.

While most people are well aware that driving at higher rates of speed typically correspond with more collisions and more severe injuries, the risk posed by a forty ton tractor-trailer combination barreling down the freeway at excessive rates of speed makes this danger exponentially more frightening.

Whether you are a pedestrian run down by an intoxicated driver or a passenger in a vehicle rear-ended by a tractor-trailer, there is a significant risk that those involved in motor vehicle collisions will suffer injuries that cause physical challenges and intense emotions.

There are many types of hazards, neglect and abuse that can result in severe injuries, debilitating illness or even the wrongful death of a nursing home resident.

This is the second installment of our two-part blog post (Part 1)providing an overview of the timing requirements that impact personal injury claims in Georgia.

When people are coping with the pain, stress and disorientation which often results from a significant car crash or other type of accident or intentional criminal act, understandably the focus for most car accident injury victims is, and needs to be, on medical treatment and rehabilitation.

A severe burn injury often causes overwhelming pain and disfigurement that may entail a long difficult process of surgeries and rehabilitation.

Asbestos can cause serious medical conditions that prove to be fatal, such as lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestoses. These dangerous microscopic fibers pose a significant health hazard to those who engage in electrical work and other construction trades on commercial, public and residential building sites. Asbestos often causes severe illness and wrongful death to those in the building trades because it was a frequent component in construction materials.

Our Atlanta wrongful death attorneys at Montlick Injury Attorneys recognize the devastating toll of mesothelioma on people who are exposed to asbestos, as well as the impact on their loved ones.

Our Atlanta medical malpractice attorneys recognize that most people think of hospitals as places of healing and recovery, but a new study suggests that sometimes time spent in a hospital can do more harm than good.

Many driver of passenger vehicles like cars, SUVs and pickup trucks have never ridden a motorcycle so they have no more than a passing familiarity with the hazards faced by motorcyclist.

Although federal traffic safety agencies like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have devoted an enormous amount of attention to the growing epidemic of distracted driving, far less attention has been placed on collisions involving distracted pedestrians.