As a regular part of their job, accident lawyers are called upon to examine and interpret the car insurance policies that apply in the aftermath of a crash. For the innocent victims of the crash, certain policy exclusions can be devastating. Take for example a recent client who was struck…
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In Georgia you can settle your property damage claim and proceed with your injury claim and what you do in one will not affect the other. The Georgia legislature passed O.C.G.A. §51-1-32 and 51-1-33 to ensure that you and the insurance company can work out your property damage sooner and…
The Georgia Senate has passed a bill banning texting while driving and it calls for a stiff fine for adults and license suspensions for teenagers. The House version of the bill calls for license suspensions if you cause a crash while texting. Although we should all applaud the passage of…
I agreed to step in and try a case for another Atlanta injury lawyer two months ago only to find out in deposition that the client had filed a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy due to business debts prior to the crash that injured him. Under the Bankruptcy Code, he has a…
Despite the media spotlight shifting to car accidents caused by driving and texting, the number one killer remains drunk driving in Georgia. As drunk driving car accident lawyers, we civilly prosecute drunk drivers who injure and kill innocent victims across the State of Georgia. This traffic camera video of a…
When you read the CNN coverage on the head on crash between a tractor trailer and a Mennonite Church van in Kentucky that took 11 lives, the divergence between the effect of God’s law and man’s law is illustrated. Friday morning a tractor trailer driver crossed the center line in…
There is a very unusual Georgia wrongful death decision out of the State Court in Bibb County that was recently upheld by the Court of Appeals. It has the potential to drastically affect wrongful death cases involving Georgia uninsured motorist insurance coverage. Smarr v. Richardson et al. involved the death…
The Georgia Supreme Court issued a decision today on cancellation of car insurance and although I don’t think it was very interesting, it reminded me a case that we handled that was and has some bearing for Georgia consumers. We took a case for a badly injured woman who had…
The firm is working on the tragic wrongful death case of a child run over by an elderly driver in Cobb County. As all Georgia wrongful death lawyers know, there often is not enough insurance to assist the family in recovering from the devastating loss. In this case, the driver…