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…
The final chapter in the sad story of the wrongful death of Jessica Lester has been written and the family’s lawyer has been suspended from the practice of law for 5 years and fined over $540,000 dollars for telling the widower to delete a Facebook page. Ridiculous. For a survey…
Trip and Fall and Slip and Fall Lawyers Explain the Law I was asked this week to review three cases for two lawyers and they make good models for an attempt at highlighting some of the key differences between a slip and fall and a trip and fall case in…
When Hit By a Drunk Driver in Atlanta, Understand the Value Implications One of the frequent questions we get as Atlanta DUI accident lawyers is “how much is my case worth?” While we have explored that topic before, one variant involves people that get hit by drunk drivers in Atlanta…
Local news media have been reporting that three people died in a high speed crash with a tractor trailer that happened in Gainesville at 1AM on Friday. Setting aside the human tragedy for a moment, this story reflects one of the biggest problems for the victims family in ever getting…
A Norcross 17 year passenger died when his friend lost control of their car while allegedly speeding. See WSBTV coverage of the crash. Unfortunately teenage driving is all too common of an element in fatal crashes in the Atlanta area. What is unusual here is the fact that the police…
This morning, I deposed Jeff Kidd with Collison Specialists out of Gainseville Georgia. Jeff was hired in a case where I represent the family of a woman who was thrown from her motorcycle when a driver who had been licensed for 10 months got a flat tire and decided to…
For years car insurance companies have decried the “greed” and audacity of personal injury plaintiffs and their lawyers for bringing lawsuits over injuries in car accidents. Now, irony of ironies, these same insurance companies are launching a tidal wave of lawsuits as they go after the uninsured and underinsured. Let…
A fellow lawyer won an important victory at the Court of Appeals last Spring (The Bethany Group LLC v. Grobman 315 Ga.App. 298 (2012) which resulted in a $1.2 million dollar settlement for the family of a taxi driver who was murdered at an apartment complex. What is noteworthy about…
In a rare and tragic instant Aila Masud was struck and killed by a flying tire while driving on I-85 in Atlanta. Eyewitness accounts agree that the wheel came from a passenger vehicle driving the opposite direction although there is mixed information about the driver trying to avoid something in…