The Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety and Montlick & Associates, Attorneys at Law, have provided safety tips for pedestrians to help avoid serious accidents and injuries.

GEORGIA – May 23, 2018 (gahighwaysafety.com) On its website, the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety provides pointers for bicycle safety, including how to find the right helmet, how to fit your helmet, and how to maintain your helmet.

GEORGIA – May 17, 2018 (hastingstribune.com) According to a news report from hastingstribune.com, contaminated romaine lettuce might not present a continued health hazard.* 

CAMARILLO, CA. – May 16, 2018 (necn.com) As reported by necn.com, about 1 million chainsaws have been recalled by Harbor Freight Tools after reports of the chainsaws not turning off.*

ST. PETERSBURG, FL- Walb.com reports that a 38-year-old man was killed when his vaping cigarette exploded on May 5, 2018. Tallmadge D-Elia’s body was found after a house fire in Pinellas County burned up 80% of his body. According to reports from the medical examiner, evidence suggests that the man was killed by an exploding vape pen.*

GEORGIA- Northwestgeorgianew.com reports that 5 people in Georgia have confirmed cases of E. coli that are attributed to the massive outbreak that originated with Romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona. The total number of people affected thus far is 149, spread across 29 states. The outbreak killed one person in California.*

Georgia Nursing Home Injury Lawyers Caution Georgia Residents About Arbitration Clauses Hidden In Nursing Home Contracts

Arbitration Clauses Seek to Deprive Injured Parties and Their Families of Their Day In Court 

Georgia law allows parties to agree to send legal disputes to arbitration. Alternative dispute resolution procedures such as arbitration and mediation play a significant role in enabling litigants in Georgia to pursuing legal claims without having to wait for their case to get to trial. A case can take years to progress from inception to judgment after trial in Georgia’s busy and crowded courts. By contrast, alternative dispute resolution is a way to resolve the case without the need for a trial.

May 2, 2018 (revealnews.org) Some of Goodyear’s motorcycle tires are prone to blowouts that have caused several fatalities, but the tire manufacturer has not taken steps to recall the tires. A report from revealnews.org analyzes the tires and the wrecks they are causing.* 

ATLANTA, GA – May 1, 2018 (wbrc.com).  According to an online news report at wbrc.com, the summery months means that there will be restrictions on open burning in the greater Atlanta area.*

MARIETTA, GA. – April 26, 2018 (patch.com) According to an online report from patch.com, a Cobb County firefighter has received a national honor for his efforts in rescuing a teen who had been washed down a waterfall.

ATLANTA, GA. – April 26, 2018 (reporternewspapers.net) Plans are underway for a new pedestrian trail underneath the Northside Drive bridge in Atlanta, according to an online report by reporternewspapers.net.*

Montlick & Associates, Attorneys at Law, Lawyers for Victims of Animal Attacks Throughout Georgia 

Dog bites and animal attacks can be deadly. Attacks by dogs and other dangerous animals causenumerous injuries and hundreds of millions of dollars in personal injuries every year. While the average number of animal attacks has declined in recent years, the amount of damages paid out in personal injury claims has increased. 

In a report in Business Insider, airline pilot Patrick Smith provides valuable insight into the engine failure that forced the emergency landing of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380. The incident killed a passenger and forced the plane’s pilot to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport. During the emergency landing, the airplane’s pilot and crew managed to preserve the safety of all of the other passengers on the plane. 

BIBB COUNTY, GA. – April 17, 2018 (11alive.com) As reported by 11alive.com, schools and stores in Georgia have started reacting to a lettuce recall after warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

HYDE COUNTY, N.C. – April 18, 2018 (foodsafetynews.com) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that a recent Salmonella outbreak began at a Rose Acre Farms egg facility in North Carolina. The outbreak information is reported by foodsafetynews.com.

Georgia Accident Attorneys Explain What Happens When Someone Is Accidentally Electrocuted

It is often argued that harnessing the power of electricity enabled the U.S., and most of the world, to move from the Industrial Age into the Modern Age. Our lives would be markedly different if we did not have electricity at our fingertips. In fact, it would not be modern at all.

Georgia Apartment Building Accidents

Tenants and their visitors and guests have the right to be free from injury when living in or visiting an apartment building in Georgia. Georgia law instructs the owners or occupiers of apartment buildings to keep the premises free from hazardous conditions, both inside of the building and on the outside. The failure to protect from harm a lawful invitee or someone who is the apartment building can lawfully expose the landlord to legal liability in Georgia. 

Any brain injury has the potential to alter a person’s life irrevocably and can have a devastating outcome for the injured as well as the person’s family. Medicine recognizes two broad categories of brain injuries. They are traumatic brain injuries and anoxic brain injuries. Anoxic brain injuries occur when an injury or medical condition restricts blood flow to the brain. The lack of oxygenated blood flowing from the heart to the brain can cause irreversible damage in as few as four minutes. That is not much time to pass before a person suffers irreversible complications. 

Nursing homes are intended to help care for patients who no longer have the ability to care for themselves without assistance.  While nursing homes have helped many patients with life’s daily needs, there are still far too many patients that suffer injuries in them, many of which are preventable.  A common injury associated with many nursing home patients is falling.  As we grow older, it becomes more difficult to walk without assistance, and a vast majority of nursing home patients are elderly individuals.

Summers in Georgia can be considerably hot, sending many people to both private and public swimming pools on a daily basis, especially teenagers and young children who are not in school.  Swimming pools are a refreshing break from the heat, and while swimming pools are intended to be fun and relaxing, they can also present dangers.