There is some justice in the world, but often not enough.
I cannot count the number of times I find myself having to tell clients that. In my darker moments, I will refer to my profession as being a merchant of tragedy and there are aspects of my job that can be described thusly. Every person or family member who walks through my door has experienced serious injuries or the loss of a loved one. They are not in a good place.
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The firm is representing the family of Julie Hernandez in a wrongful death case stemming from a tragic night this year when a car ran her down and killed her. We review around 20 cases a year involving pedestrian deaths and there are usually a few sad facts in common:
A drunk billionaire kills a struggling college student on a dark Florida road and walks off into the night. A $46 Million Dollar settlement in a wrongful death suit, a multimillion dollar Dram shop settlement with the Players Club Bar for overserving the drunk driver, and a vehicular manslaughter trial all with enough bizarre twists to be a late night movie. The one thing we can be happy of is that the guilty drunk was convicted was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Two moving stories this past week in the news in Georgia involved or will involve trial lawyers and the question of civil liability. The Aimee Copeland story has gripped a large part of the country, probably because of how hard it is to understand. How can a simple cut on an all American trip to the river make you the victim of necrotizing fascitis? Medical malpractice and bad wound care is the unfortunate answer and I am deeply concerned about the medical care that was administered to her on the first and subsequent visits. http://www.christophersimon.com
In Georgia, the Uninsured Motorist bad faith laws have no bite and as a result the insurers can behave without fear of repercussions for low-balling a case. This past week Geico insurance responded to a policy limits demand we sent on their own insured’s Uninsured Motorist Insurance by claiming the victim was doing just fine despite $69,000 in medical bills and year long recovery.
Understand that each state is different, but here in Georgia, it depends on healing timetable for your particular injury and the complexity of the case. Here, we will provide information about what you can expect during both the settlement and the litigation phases of a case. As you read, keep in mind that these estimates are based on average amounts of time for common accident cases with typical injuries, so your case may be different.
So I got a traffic ticket for allegedly “rolling” a stop sign in my neighborhood. Total BS because I stopped but the City of Atlanta places a cop in an adjacent parking lot and he just writes tickets all day and who wants to get in a swearing contest with a cop? So I get my summons to City of Atlanta Municipal Court and I know that if I am found guilty or plea that 3 points will be added to my license and my insurance rates will go up.
Some prospective clients call and they are farther along in the information gathering process after a car accident. Maybe they read our book on Georgia Car Accidents and insurance issues or maybe they have done their homework. Although it is getting harder to get insurance companies to disclose their liability policy limits these days see our article on State Farm’s required affidavit to tell you how much insurance they have) it is possible if you jump through the hoops.
Georgia wrongful death laws are very considerate of the value of human life, especially when compared to that of other jurisdictions. The problem for many victim’s families is that as a general rule, Courts apply the wrongful death law of the state where the underlying crash occurred. This principal of applying the law of the place where the injury or death occurred is known as lex loci delicti.
Our firm is representing the family of Mary Miller, an Ohio native, who was riding on a motorcycle with her husband on I-285. Up ahead a driver insured by Geico got a flat tire. These are the moments where careless decisions have terrible consequences. Instead of pulling his car off to the side of the road, the driver decides to leave his car sitting in the second lane from the right in the middle of traffic and to stand in the roadway to flag down traffic.
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