With the new Georgia Uninsured Underinsured Motorist Insurance statute allowing Uninsured Motorist Coverages to be stacked, there has been some confusion in the legal community as to what Georgia Uninsured Motorist coverages are available for collisions occurring after January 1, 2009. Under the statute, the insurance companies are obligated to…
I spent the week in New Orleans with several other injury lawyers taking depositions in a trucking case and discussing legal issues and a topic came up that deserves mention; are Georgia attorney’s fees negotiable? The answer is, sometimes. Injury lawyers in Georgia all work on a contingency fee basis…
Over the last few weeks,several clients have come to me after being hit by a car in Atlanta, Georgia. I realized that we have not written extensively on the legal duties owed by pedestrians and cars in Georgia and this post and the new section on the firm website will…
On my website I have completed a new page that explains how to read a Georgia Car accident police report so that consumers can better understand the valuable information contained in them. Remember that it will take the police department approximately 3 days to prepare the report after the car…
As an injury attorney, I unfortunately receive phone calls from prospective clients regarding violent assaults and rapes at Georgia apartment complexes. These cases are commonly referred to in Georgia as negligent security cases because the legal inquiry focuses on whether the complex took adequate security measures to protect tenants against…
In my practice clients frequently call me panicking about a notice of a Georgia medical lien they received after their car accident. For those clients with health insurance, I have written previously about whether your health insurance has to pay your bills after a car accident, and the answer is…
As a lawyer with twelve years in the business, I am pleased to report that my clients still call me years down the road with unrelated legal questions. A current client called today and he is changing jobs but his new health insurance won’t start for 60 days. His wife…
In a stunning reversal of course, the Georgia Court of Appeals reconsidered its February decision and the Court has ruled that when there are medical liens to be paid after a Georgia Car Accident, the amounts to be paid eat into the at fault party’s coverages, allowing access to reducing…
Lawyers that handle wrongful death cases will tell you that in the old days, there was no case to be brought when a person died through the wrongdoing of another. The Georgia legislature passed the Georgia Wrongful Death laws to impose “… a penalty upon the person who causes the…
If you are hurt at work in Atlanta, an Atlanta Workers Compensation attorney will advise you that you are required to give notice and to bring the claim within certain strict deadlines. Under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-80, if you are injured on the job in Georgia, you must tell your employer…