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Consumers May Be Without Remedies Against Auto Manufacturers

Posted on June 07, 2009
The Atlanta consumer and product liability lawyers of Finch McCranie LLP have successfully litigated cases against auto manufacturers for serious injury and death caused by defects in their products. Now, as a result of the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler,...

Georgia Wrongful Death Actions:Who Has The Right To Sue? (Part II)

Posted on June 05, 2009
In Part I of this series, we set forth the provisions of Georgia law for wrongful death actions where surviving spouses were involved. In this article, we shall address actions by surviving children under Georgia?s wrongful death statute where...

Georgia Health Insurer Accused Of Unfair Practices

Posted on June 05, 2009
A lawsuit has been filed by Georgia surgery centers against Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia Inc. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, seeking class action. The lawsuit, like many others around the country attacks the...

Georgia Wrongful Death Actions:Who Has The Right To Sue? (Part I)

Posted on June 04, 2009
One of area of confusion to the public is determining who has the right to bring a wrongful death action in Georgia. Because our firm handles many such cases in Atlanta and throughout the State, we have decided to blog...

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FDA To Reconsider BPA Decision

Posted on June 04, 2009
We receive many inquiries from Atlanta consumers regarding the safety of products apporved by the federal regulatory agencies. During the Bush administration many consumers here in Georgia and elsewhere have expressed concern and bewilderment that certain drugs and products banned...

Forklift Accidents: Usually Serious And Oftentimes Deadly

Posted on June 03, 2009
When I was in high school, I was hired as a forklift driver at a textile plant. I was given no training whatsoever, had never operated a forklift and within hours was lifting huge pallets of heavy materials high...

Bus Accident Recommendations By NTSB

Posted on June 01, 2009
Bus accidents have been a problem in Atlanta and Georgia for many years. Recently, the lawyers of Finch McCranie LLP were able to secure a very favorable settlement for the most seriously injured survivor in the Bluffton Bus crash which...

Trampolines Recalled

Posted on May 30, 2009
Potentially dangerous trampolines which have been sold in the Georgia and Atlanta areas are the subject of a recall. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in cooperaation with Skywalker Holdings announced a voluntary recall of about 60,000 trampolines manufactured in...

Treadmill Accidents Can Cause Serious Injury or Death

Posted on May 28, 2009
The Atlanta lawyers of Finch McCranie LLP often see cases in which children are injured on exercise equipment such as treadmills and weight machines. The tragic death of boxer Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter may seem like a freak occurrence, but...

As a Georgia injury lawyer, I read

Posted on May 28, 2009
As a Georgia injury lawyer, I read almost everyday about a death or serious personal injuries sustained as a result of an All Terrain Vehicle ATV accident. With the increasing popularity of ATVs it is inevitable that there will be...

Landmark Cigarette Ruling Upheld

Posted on May 27, 2009
Last Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington essentially upheld a landmark ruling that found cigarette makers deceived the public for decades about the health hazards of smoking. The Court of Appeals upheld the major elements of a 2006...

Drug Companies Agree To Reimbursement of Taxpayers

Posted on May 26, 2009
The attorney general of Alabama has announced that 14 major drug companies will pay Alabama $89 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of defrauding the state Medicaid agency. This lawsuit brought on behalf of the taxpayers of the state...

Product Liability Claims And Other Claims Related To Dangerous Machinery

Posted on May 25, 2009
Georgia injury lawyers, handling a claim for a catastrophically injured employee or the family of a deceased employee, our investigation will often reveal that the employee received injuries while working on or around a piece of machinery that caused the...

Drug Manufacturer Accused Of Fraud Against United States

Posted on May 19, 2009
The United States Department of Justice and 16 states have joined two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that drug manufacturer Wyeth defrauded the government by offering discounts to hospitals on two of its drugs that it didn't offer to Medicaid. Whistleblower lawsuits...

South Carolina Teenager Seriously Injured After Being Thrown From ATV

Posted on May 19, 2009
Georgia and South Carolina injury lawyers are seeing ATV accidents involving serious injury and sometimes death are on the rise with the return of warm weather. Tragically many, if not most are preventable by using common sense and obeying ATV...

Brain Death

Posted on May 18, 2009
Our Atlanta based lawyers are constantly involved in cases involving brain injury and brain death. As tragic as these cases are, the families and loved ones are many times faced with the decision whether to cease life support after there...

Lawmakers Hold Hearing on Medical Device Safety Act

Posted on May 18, 2009
Defective medical devices can lead to the serious injury or death of innocent people. For this reason Georgia injury lawyers representing victims of defective and dangerous products were dismayed when the Supreme Court decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, held that...

Workers Compensation Injuries - Is There A Premises Liability and Negligent Security Third Party Claims?

Posted on May 15, 2009
The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP who handle workers compensation cases always investigate the possibility that there is a negligent third party who can be sued and held accountable for the client?s injuries and damages. As any injured...

Congressman?s Death Highlights The Dangers of Operating An ATV

Posted on May 10, 2009
As the popularity of ATV?s (all-terrain vehicles) increases the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP see more ATV accidents resulting in death and serious injuries each year. Even experienced riders must be very careful when operating an ATV...

Workers Compensation Injury - Is There A Third Party Liability Case

Posted on May 06, 2009
When the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP represent an injured employee in a workers compensation case we always look to see if there is a liable third party that can be sued. Under Georgia law, workers compensation benefits...

Car Roof Crush Standards Increased

Posted on May 06, 2009
Many automobile crashes which our Georgia lawyers investigate involve serious injury and deaths which are caused by roof collapses in rollover situations. Tragically, many of these victims would have been less seriously injured or survived had the roof of the...

Limiting The Chance For Serious Injury Or Death From Grinding Wheel Explosions

Posted on May 04, 2009
The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have previously posted on the danger posed by defective grinding wheels that explode or disintegrate. When a grinding wheel comes apart, it can result in serious eye injury and even death. Although...

Grinding Wheel Failures Can Lead To Serious Injury Or Death

Posted on May 02, 2009
Recently an Atlanta eye surgeon told one of the Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP that his group sees at least two new patients a month with serious eye injuries caused by grinding wheel accidents. Often times , the...

Bus Accidents Provoke DOT to Review Bus and Motorcoach Safety

Posted on May 01, 2009
Bus accidents (or motorcoach accidents) can multiply the loss of life and life-changing injuries. Our Bluffton University baseball team client will never be the same as a result of the bus accident in 2007 that left him permanently injured, and...

Hydroxycut Recalled - May Be Linked To Liver Damage

Posted on May 01, 2009
The Georgia injury lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP have handled many products liability cases involving dangerous drugs and consumer products. Last week the FDA announced the recall of Hydroxycut. Government officials warned dieter and body builders to immediately stop using...

Secretary of Transportation Pushes For Child Seat Testing

Posted on May 01, 2009
Many Georgia parents employ child safety seats to protect the lives of their children without any reliable data as to the safety of the particular seat model. Now, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that he will urge carmakers...

Liability Insurance Limits for Commercial Trucking Companies:

Posted on April 29, 2009
Liability insurance limits for your typical tractor-trailer company, as mandated by federal law, is $750,000.00 in coverage for the protection of innocent members of the motoring public who might be unfortunate enough to be injured by a large tractor-trailer...

Profiles In Courage: Innocent Personal Injury Victims

Posted on April 28, 2009
In today?s economic times, we hear a lot of discussion about the problems that people are having financially. While many people are emotionally suffering due to rising unemployment and adverse economic conditions, those who suffer perhaps the most during...

Trial Techniques - The Art of Cross-Examination - Part XVI

Posted on April 27, 2009
Rule No. 12 of 12: The successful cross-examiner understands the risks of cross-examination. As set forth above, if an attorney asks a question that he does not know the answer to or asks one question too many, he is...

Electronic Medical Records Can Reduce Errors

Posted on April 27, 2009
Over the years our Georgia medical malpractice lawyers have been involved in medical negligence lawsuits involving missing or improperly documented medical records. In an effort to avoid such problems the federal government is pressuring medical professionals and facilities to adopt...

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