Depending on the circumstances of a Georgia personal injury claim, punitive damages might be available as a form of damages beyond a plaintiff’s compensatory damages.

If you are injured in a motorcycle accident, construction accident or fall in a grocery store, a personal injury claim can provide compensation for medical bills, lost income and other damages.

While most animal attacks that cause injury involve dog bite and mauling incidents, some property owners endanger visitors to their property because they permit wild animals to remain on the premises.

If you are attacked by a dog while delivering takeout food to a lessee in a rented apartment, you may incur significant economic hardships like ambulance and hospital bills, lost income and other expenses.

Pedestrian accidents pose a unique risk of injury because a person who is in a crosswalk has little chance of evading an approaching driver who is not paying attention.

During the summer, many people engage in adrenaline producing recreational activities that can cause serious injury.

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 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.

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.

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.

Atlanta intersections can be very dangerous places for pedestrians because they have relatively no protection when they are struck by a motor vehicle.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, many families are making travel plans that include stays in motels and hotels in Atlanta and the surrounding areas of Georgia.

Because no type of motor vehicle accident victim is more exposed to a higher risk of injury than pedestrians, those who walk, jog or run for pleasure, exercise or a mode of transportation need to understand their risk of injury, as well as their legal rights and actions that need to be taken to protect those rights, if they are involved in a pedestrian accident in Georgia.

A deadly train derailment this past Thanksgiving weekend that claimed the lives of at least four people and caused injury to at least sixty others serves as a testament to the complexity of interpreting the cause of many transportation accidents.

Spinal injuries are among the most common type of serious injury suffered in a motor vehicle accident.

If a defective product causes a severe debilitating injury, then a product liability claim or lawsuit may offer the best alternative for the injured party to seek redress for his or her diminished quality of life, along with financial compensation for the victim’s medical bills, lost income and other forms of tangible and intangible loss.

While there is an often repeated saying that “a picture is a worth a thousand words,” this saying was coined long before video footage was common.