I had a call from a nice lady from Dalton the other day and the reason she called is that Allstate declared that they were assigning 30% of the blame for a crash to her. This is a crash where the Allstate driver left a stop sign and pulled in…
When a client is injured in a crash where the other driver leaves the scene, the fleeing driver is liable for punitive damages when they can be identified. We see examples of egregious roadway behavior on a regular basis, and the incidence of Georgia drivers fleeing the scene is on…
Perhaps you have read the story of the family in New York that has a filed an $83 million dollar lawsuit against the makers of Red Bull for the death of a 30 year old father on a basketball court. Being a lawyer who regularly files these cases in legitimate…
On Monday we mediated a fascinating case for a client to a successful conclusion. I cannot get into the details because the other half of the case is still to be litigated but the case brought up some novel issues that I thought I would share. One of the more…
Causation is one of the four elements that must be proven in an injury case in order to get a judgment in an injury case in Georgia. Insurance defense lawyers will often attack the plaintiff’s ability to prove that the accident caused the specific injury. Under Georgia law, “expert evidence…
State Supreme Court The state of Georgia’s Highest Appellate Court Court of Appeals: The intermediate court of Appeals Superior Court: These courts exist in each county in Georgia and have the ability to hear felony criminal cases, divorce and family law cases and have no jursidictional limits. You can sue…
So you have a car accident in Georgia and three days later the police report comes out. It does not take 5 minutes for the runners to start calling the person who was not ticketed trying to hustle them into a chiropractic clinic or to a shady lawyer. This practice…
We are representing the Syed family for a tragic crash that also took the life of Caroline Addlesburger and her mother Tracy Bieler on August 7, 2013. In a sadly familiar series of events, Mrs. Bieler was driving down a steep hill on a wet road with unsafe tires when…
Some of you may have heard about Kambiz Michael Doran, the man in Spring Texas who is facing criminal prosecution for the death of several drivers at the hands of a drunk driver as a result of buying her drinks while hitting on her. Is criminal and civil liability for…
Some of you noticed the Progressive Insurance ads that started in 2008 for their Snapshot program which tracks driver behavior and rewards safe driving practices with lower rates. Know as “telematics”, the collection of objective driver behavior data is now spreading with State Farm and Allstate now rolling out a…