Filing a Personal Injury Lawsuit in Georgia Superior Court
In Georgia, a personal injury case becomes a lawsuit at a precise moment: when the complaint is filed with the clerk of the proper court. For…
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199 articlesVision Loss and Eye Injuries in Georgia Accident Claims
Windshield glass, the chemical powder and force of an airbag, a flying fragment on a worksite, a direct blow to the orbit: a Georgia accident can…
Dangerous Highway Shoulder Claims in Georgia
A highway shoulder is supposed to be a refuge. A driver pulls off to change a flat, wait out a mechanical problem, or let an emergency…
Foot and Ankle Injuries from Georgia Pedestrian Accidents
A modern vehicle's bumper sits at roughly the height of an adult's lower leg, so when a car strikes a person on foot, the foot, ankle,…
Bank and ATM Assault Claims in Georgia
A customer is robbed at gunpoint at a drive-up ATM after dark, in a lot where the lights have been out for weeks and a similar…
Venue and Jurisdiction in Georgia Personal Injury Cases
Two crashes with identical facts can end very differently depending on a single early decision: which courthouse hears the case. A collision on the Downtown Connector…
First-Party vs Third-Party Claims: Which Insurance Pays in Georgia?
After a Georgia collision, several insurance policies may be in play at once, and they do not all work the same way or pay in the…
Herniated Disc Injuries from Georgia Car Accidents
A herniated disc is one of the few crash injuries with hard imaging behind it, and yet it is among the most fiercely contested. An MRI…
College Campus Injury Claims in Georgia
A student slips on an unsalted library stairwell at a state university, a visitor is assaulted in a poorly lit campus parking deck, a chemistry lab…
Subrogation and Healthcare Liens in Georgia Settlements
A Georgia injury settlement is rarely the number an injured person keeps. Between the gross settlement and the net check sit the parties that paid the…
Mediation in Georgia Personal Injury Cases: Settlement Conference Strategy
Most Georgia personal injury cases that do not settle on their own resolve at mediation rather than at trial. A neutral mediator, often a retired judge…
Claims Against Estates of Deceased Defendants in Georgia
A driver who caused a head-on collision dies at the scene. A property owner who let a hazard fester passes away before any suit is filed.…
Hand and Wrist Injuries: Impact on Work and Daily Life in Georgia
A welder who can no longer close a fist around a torch, a hygienist who cannot hold a scaler steady, a warehouse picker whose grip fails…
HOA and Condominium Association Liability in Georgia
The hazard that injures someone in a planned community usually sits in a space no single resident controls: a cracked common sidewalk, an unlit parking deck,…
Traffic Signal Malfunction Claims in Georgia
Two drivers enter the same intersection, each looking at a green light. One of those greens should have been red. A signal that displays conflicting indications,…
Motions for Summary Judgment in Georgia PI Litigation
Most Georgia personal injury cases never reach a jury, and a large share of those end on a single ruling decided on paper. A motion for…
Gap Between Medical Bills and Settlement: Who Pays in Georgia?
A settlement is not a reimbursement check. It is a negotiated number that already absorbs liability disputes, policy limits, and litigation risk, while medical bills are…
Railroad Crossing Accidents in Georgia
A car and a freight train do not collide on equal terms. The mass differential alone makes a grade-crossing collision one of the most lethal events…
Calculating Pain and Suffering Damages in Georgia
Two people can walk away from the same Georgia collision with the same medical bills and recover very different amounts for what the injury did to…
Rock Climbing and Indoor Gym Falls in Georgia
A climber clips into an auto-belay at a Georgia bouldering gym, ascends thirty feet, leans back to be lowered, and drops to the deck because the…
Daycare and Childcare Injury Claims in Georgia
A child cannot read a wet-floor sign, cannot climb out of a hot van, and cannot tell an investigator what happened in a room full of…
MedPay Coverage in Georgia: Using Your Own Insurance First
After a Georgia collision, the at-fault driver's liability insurer can take months to accept responsibility, but medical bills do not wait that long. Medical payments coverage,…
Bad Faith Insurance Denial Claims in Georgia
In Georgia, an insurer that drags out, lowballs, or unreasonably refuses a claim it should pay does not merely owe the original amount. It can owe…
General Contractor Liability for Subcontractor Negligence in Georgia
A scaffold collapses on a Georgia jobsite and the worker who set it up was employed by a framing subcontractor, not the general contractor whose name…
Day-in-the-Life Videos in Georgia Personal Injury Trials
A jury can read in a chart that a quadriplegic claimant "requires assistance with activities of daily living" and feel almost nothing. A short film of…