The Bluffton University bus crash that killed seven here in Atlanta has been litigated heavily in Georgia and in Ohio. The injury lawyers here in Georgia representing the families knew immediately that liability and damages would not be the areas where good lawyering would be needed; it was in the area of insurance coverage litigation.
The Simon Law Firm will be representing the family of Eddie Ko, a 23 year old University of Georgia student who was killed by drunk drivers on Steve Reynolds Boulevard around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Eddie was driving his friends home when police allege that Soon Kwon (see photo) sideswiped another drunk driver, 23-year-old Gho Lee and the car crossed the center line and hit Eddie's Honda head on. Eddie unfortunately passed away at Grady hospital later that night as did the passenger in Kwon's car, Se Shin. Kwon has been charged with vehicular homicide.
As we work with the Ko family to seek justice for Eddie's senseless death, I am reminded of the advice I give to all clients; never driver after 1 a.m.. Through 13 years of litigating serious and fatal car wrecks, I have rarely seen one before midnight. The hours after the bars close are particularly deadly, as this crash illustrates. Gwinnett County jail records indicate Kwon has had a series of minor arrests with the police department and was booked for disorderly conduct as recently as may.
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When you file a lawsuit for injuries after a car accident in Georgia, you have to sue the at fault driver and not the insurance company. Juries get confused and don't understand that there is only one trial against the defendant with the at fault driver's insurance company standing invisibly behind them. The insurance company pays for the the at fault driver's lawyer if they are sued after a car accident and the insurance company will pay any verdict up to the policy limits. Our trial this past week unfortunately showed that juries get confused by the way the law is in Georgia.
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Well, we are on day 3 of our trial against a State Farm insured in Clayton County State Court. The client had a wreck in 2004 and hired another lawyer who had some trouble getting the case onto a trial calendar. She was unhappy that the case had not been reached on the trial calendar after 4 years of litigation. Our firm along with Werner and Associates out of Tucker, Georgia took on the case and pushed the case to trial this week.
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