Georgia Injury Attorney Blog

If you work in a risky industry, like construction or medicine, your employer is required to provide you with certain protective equipment. These things not only protect you and your health, but also serve to shield your employer from catastrophic workers compensation suits. However, accidents still happen, and many people are seriously injured on the…

When a person gets into a car accident, the car may get damaged to the point that it is declared totaled by the insurance company. This means that the cost to repair the car is more than the fair market value of the vehicle. For the person losing the car, this could mean that even…

Modern medicine is truly incredible, and doctors are now able to do things that we could have never imagined just a few decades ago. Especially when it comes to our surgical capabilities, robotic arms, implantable devices, and minimally invasive procedures are becoming more the norm. However, that doesn’t mean that surgery is without its risks,…

Some nursing home residents may require additional assistance with everyday grooming and general tasks. Most nursing home caregivers are well trained to meet these needs with care and compassion. However, in some nursing homes, residents who need additional assistance may be seen as problem cases to be dealt with and kept in line, sometimes by…

Generally, when a person gets into a car accident with an insured driver, the at-fault driver’s insurance company pays for any damages sustained according to the limits of the driver’s policy. However, in some situations, the other driver may not have enough insurance to cover the damages, leaving the injured person to cover some costs.…

None of us like to think about the potential for a car accident, but the truth is that the average driver, over the course of their lifetime, will experience 3-4 collisions. Thankfully, most of these are not serious or fatal, but every car crash can have lasting physical, mental, emotional, and financial damage. Our brains…

Following an incident in which someone gets injured, there is sometimes an intersection of criminal cases and civil cases, and how the cases are resolved can influence each other’s outcome. A person who is injured in an incident that gives rise to criminal charges against the defendant may wonder whether to file the lawsuit before…

Thousands of people will file workers compensation claims each year here in Georgia, but many of those claims don’t go according to plan. Many employees run into snags while trying to get the compensation they deserve, and end up spending more time, energy, and money than they anticipated. Depending on your injury, your employer, and…

When a person gets injured as a result of an act or omission by a doctor in the course of receiving treatment, he or she may file a medical malpractice lawsuit. One of the elements that the person has to prove in order to succeed in this kind of lawsuit is that there was a…

When most people think about personal injury law, they envision car accidents or other unfortunate things happening to them. However, this type of law also protects those who have lost loved ones due to injuries caused by the negligence of others. This is called “wrongful death,” and these types of lawsuits are designed to help…