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…
Georgia drivers that are hit by hit and run drivers face unique challenges in handling their injury and property damage claims. We will break the discussion into two key subtypes; where the driver is eventually found and where they remain a phantom vehicle. Hit and Run Driver is Eventually Located…
As a Georgian, I was saddened to see that CDC officials have confirmed that there is salmonella contamination at a Blakely, Georgia factory that ships peanut paste and other products to 85 different companies. The outbreak of Salmonella has caused illness in over 40 states and has caused at least…
If you have been injured by a drunk driver, it almost always makes sense to hire an injury attorney because punitive damages are recoverable and they can multiply the value of an injury case ninefold. Although I have advised many prospective clients with minor injuries that you are capable of…
One of the most commonly asked questions is whether an injured client without health insurance can expect the at fault driver in a Georgia car crash to pay their medical bills. On a simple trip to the emergency room in Georgia, an average ambulance ride is $500.00, the ER physician…
As we have been discussing, the new Georgia Uninsured Motorist laws that went into effect on January 1, 2009 are drastically different. Check out this video for more details