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…
Many of my clients come to me after serious car accidents and a common question is, “who will pay for surgery if I need it?” Frequently, the question has two aspects. Many are nervous and in the early stages of medical care for a disc herniation or broken bone. They…
As a trucking lawyer, I am often faced with complex insurance coverage scenarios and today we will be discussing the difference between trucking and non-trucking coverage. In the industry, especially among smaller carriers, after dropping off a trailer, a driver will often have to head back to the depot without…
Before I began practicing almost exclusively as an injury lawyer, I litigated business and contract cases throughout Georgia and represented Cobb County’s Department of Transportation in eminent domain cases. Many of my former Georgia clients call me with contract law problems years after their Atlanta injury cases are over and…
As an injury lawyer, I get numerous calls from people that have been in severe car accidents. Although their main focus is their medical condition, they inevitably want to know how to prevent the insurance company from cheating them on the value of their cars when they are totaled out…
Some inexperienced injury lawyers fail to thoroughly identify all of the Georgia Uninsured Motorist insurance coverage available to their client after a serious car accident. I have previously written here about the added on coverage that everyone should select as it stacks on top of the at fault driver’s coverage,…
A new client retained me today as their lawyer and we will be able to make a substantial and just recovery for them in their case against a tractor trailer company driver who turned across four lanes of traffic in Riverdale, Georgia, causing serious injuries. What shocked me was the…
As a lawyer who handles car accident cases, I get this question a lot, so I will write a brief post on this here. Yes, your health insurance will pay for medical care incurred as a result of a car accident so long as 1) the non emergency care is…