I get a lot of questions from clients that have been in serious crashes and they worry that using their medical payments insurance or their Georgia Uninsured Motorist insurance will cause them to have their own car policy canceled. This is untrue unless you exceed the number of claims listed…
I recently finished a new video explaining how to logically approach getting the full fair market value for your car when the insurance company totals it out after a car accident. I am asked these questions time and again, so I thought I would share this information with the web…
I am handling a wrongful death case for a Georgia family where the death occurred in California and it is stunning how much less favorable California law is for the family of the deceased. I represent the children of a deceased 35 year old who was run down by a…
Any sexual harassment lawyer will tell you that there can be a fine line between an uncomfortable office environment that can be cured by human resources and one that requires EEOC involvement. As sad as it may seem, we spend more waking hours with the people we work with than…
Federal law requires that Georgia employees get paid overtime when they work more than forty hours and yet many bosses lie to their employees about eligibility and whether salary covers the amount. As a overtime lawyer I tried a case in front of Judge O’Kelly in Northern District Court in…
I was fortunate to have lunch today with two old law partners of mine who are now Marietta divorce lawyers, Mike Marsh and Jessica Frost. We got to talking about how frustrated their clients have become with the backlog of cases in Superior Court. As we have discussed before, when…
I spend my days battling with insurance carriers to get them to treat people like human beings, so there is no love lost there. However, even I am annoyed that the New York Times would write a piece attacking AIG for not paying claims for the travelers on Captain Sullenberger’s…
Here is part two of the CNN piece on claims handling practices by the major insurance companies. In, I can tell you that the deny, delay defend mantra is the order of the day. I handled a case for a father who broke his hand in a car accident in…
I speak with many clients that have been injured in Georgia car accidents and the clients that assumed in the early going that the insurance company for the driver that hit them will pay for their medical care, only to be rudely surprised when the time came for the bills…
In a recent post, we discussed Georgia pedestrian rights as they pertained to a case involving my clients who got run over by a car in Atlanta.Today was the second time this month I was lucky enough to end up on their behalf in the City of Atlanta Traffic Court…