If you are in a car accident in Georgia and the person that hit you is not a resident, you have the right to hale them into Court in the County in Georgia where the crash happened or in your home county. We frequently deal with issues regarding venue (the…
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Health Insurance Pays For Hospital Care After a Georgia Car Accident and Should Every Single Time
The hospital wants to bill the emergency room bill to the driver of the car that crashed into me; that sounds fair, right? WRONG. All injury lawyers know that If you have health insurance and do not have Georgia Medical Payments insurance coverage, then the medical care should be billed…
How to Appeal Fulton County Property Tax Assessments in Light of City of Atlanta Tax Increases
Last month, the City of Atlanta raised taxes 42% and with property values falling, many of my neighbors are asking “how do I appeal the Fulton County property tax assessment?” I am an l injury lawyer so do not pick up the phone and ask me to handle your appeal…
Injury Lawyers Explain when your Car Insurance Company can Cancel You
I get a lot of questions from clients that have been in serious crashes and they worry that using their medical payments insurance or their Georgia Uninsured Motorist insurance will cause them to have their own car policy canceled. This is untrue unless you exceed the number of claims listed…
When Your Car is Totaled in a Car Accident, How do You Negotiate the Value?
I recently finished a new video explaining how to logically approach getting the full fair market value for your car when the insurance company totals it out after a car accident. I am asked these questions time and again, so I thought I would share this information with the web…
Georgia’s Wrongful Death Laws are far more Progressive and Liberal than California’s
I am handling a wrongful death case for a Georgia family where the death occurred in California and it is stunning how much less favorable California law is for the family of the deceased. I represent the children of a deceased 35 year old who was run down by a…
Sexual Harassment Lawyers Discuss When a Touching at Work Crosses the Line
Any sexual harassment lawyer will tell you that there can be a fine line between an uncomfortable office environment that can be cured by human resources and one that requires EEOC involvement. As sad as it may seem, we spend more waking hours with the people we work with than…
Overtime Law is Misunderstood by Many Employees
Federal law requires that Georgia employees get paid overtime when they work more than forty hours and yet many bosses lie to their employees about eligibility and whether salary covers the amount. As a overtime lawyer I tried a case in front of Judge O’Kelly in Northern District Court in…
Divorce Lawyers Facing Crowded Courts
I was fortunate to have lunch today with two old law partners of mine who are now Marietta divorce lawyers, Mike Marsh and Jessica Frost. We got to talking about how frustrated their clients have become with the backlog of cases in Superior Court. As we have discussed before, when…
Thankless Claimants of Hudson River Crash Need to Reassess Their Blessings
I spend my days battling with insurance carriers to get them to treat people like human beings, so there is no love lost there. However, even I am annoyed that the New York Times would write a piece attacking AIG for not paying claims for the travelers on Captain Sullenberger’s…