Wrongful death lawyers know that claims for the statutory claimants and the claim for the Estate of the deceased are separate and distinct claims and that suit must be filed within two years of the death, in most cases. There are a few exceptions and one of them is that…
In Georgia, there is a two year statute of limitations within which your injury lawyer must file your lawsuit for injuries, with a few exceptions. Over the past few weeks a number of clients have called with the two anniversary fast approaching. Waiting until the last minute to file an…
I see hundreds of cases a year and we are getting more and more Georgia notices of medical liens. This past week I noticed that we have received several Georgia Medical Lien notices filed by Feiler and Associates and Clinton Harkins on behalf of their medical provider clients against potential…
When you are injured in a car accident in Georgia and there are serious medical bills and the at fault driver only has minimum insurance coverages, the availability of Georgia Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance is a major issue. As you may recall from my post a few weeks back,…
Lawyers find that they have to file suit more often to obtain fair compensation for their clients than in years past. Years ago when I represented insurance carriers for injury claims in Georgia as a defense lawyer, I found that most of them had a fundamentally sound philosophy. They would…
Georgians injured in a car crash have to be on their toes when it comes to hospital billing departments. Most hospitals code the intake so they know if the patient came in with a broken leg from a car accident or a broken arm from a trucking crash. Even where…
Practicing law as an Injury attorney, I see a variety of serious injuries on a weekly basis and I spend hours talking to clients about the impact these injuries have on their lives. Serious car accidents frequently result in soft tissue injuries and many clients come to me after being…
I have handled over 1,000 cases through the years and one of the more frustrating scenarios involves having to explain to a client with a major injury like a cervical or lumbar disc herniation that the at fault driver only has minimum limits. As I have explained in my discussion…
Two clients recently came to me with compression fractures in the vertebrae of their spine as a result of car accidents, and they were both women. As a lawyer, this accident got me wondering whether compression fractures from car accidents are more common in women than men. Indeed, I have…
Let’s us assume that you have decided that your Atlanta injury case is small enough that it would not make sense for a lawyer to handle it. This assumes you have already read the article on should you hire an accident lawyer or not. We will also assume that you…