When you are hurt on the job in Atlanta, your case falls under a very specific set of rules. The state of Georgia provides for remedies for most workplace injuries through the Worker’s Compensation laws, which are all contained in Title 34, Chapter 9 of the Georgia Code. Injury, for…
The latest news on the Healthcare Bill is that a federal judge recently struck the whole thing down as unconstitutional on Monday. The judge did not, however, enjoin the federal government from continuing to enact the law. The Justice Department is going to appeal, and the case will likely be…
On Monday morning, an Atlanta driver on I-85 South of Atlanta struck and killed HERO operator Spencer Pass. H.E.R.O. stands for Highway Emergency Response Operator. Pass was parked behind a disabled vehicle in the emergency lane when a truck pulling a trailer side-swiped them. The tragedy brings to mind an…
A lawsuit filed by plaintiffs against MARTA concluded last week with a $1.4 million verdict in Fulton County Superior Court. Two years ago, Patricia Weeks missed a football game because a MARTA escalator abruptly switched directions, causing most of its riders to fall. Now Weeks, after suing MARTA, has been…
It’s always painful to Atlanta car accident lawyers to come across law enforcement personnel who are killed in accidents on the job. A 45-year-old Highway Emergency Response Operator (HERO) unit operator was killed on Monday, after his HERO unit was hit by a truck. The victim was attending to a…
The Georgia driver of the Cobb County Transit bus involved in a pedestrian accident last week has been charged with failure to yield and failure to exercise due care. 57-year-old Jean Lewis has been formally charged in the Atlanta-area accident, which occurred eight days earlier. On the day of the…
Going into a court building can be like walking into an alternate universe. Everyone has seen TV courtrooms. They show lots of wood paneling, grumpy judges and savvy lawyers. What popular media is less likely to show you is the behind-the-scenes administration where the bulk of the legal work gets…
As an Atlanta car accident attorney, I can safely say that rollover accidents are some of the deadliest that I see in my practice. In the year 2009, more than 8,000 people were killed in rollover accidents in the US. According to the Department of Transportation, more than 50% of…
Atlanta car accident attorneys have been bombarded with explanations for the decline in drunk driving accident numbers in Atlanta over the past couple of years. One widely held theory has been that law enforcement agencies have been getting tougher about cracking down on intoxicated motorists. However, this increased crackdown by…
The mouth is an important part of our ability to function as humans in society. We use it to eat, drink, and communicate with each other. We take the mouth largely for granted, until there is a problem. We then trust a dentist or an orthodontist to fix that problem.…