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Tire Failures Related To Age

Posted on June 10, 2008
Our Atlanta car accident attorneys have been involved in numerous cases in which tire failures have resulted in serious injury and death. We are currently involved in a Georgia case in which a defective tire failed on a dump truck...

Closed Head Injuries: More Serious Than Skull Fractures

Posted on June 09, 2008
Our personal injury lawyers have seen closed head injuries in every locale surrounding metropolitan Atlanta whether it be Austell, Snellville, Roswell, Alpharetta, Jonesboro, Sandy Springs or the other numerous locales near the city. Victims of closed head injuries oftentimes...

Pedestrian Personal Injury Cases On The Rise

Posted on June 06, 2008
In metropolitan Atlanta, our lawyers are seeing more and more pedestrian personal injury cases. Due to congested conditions caused by increasing population and more motorists on the road, as might be expected, there are more incidents involving pedestrians...

Police Chases: Why Do The Police Always Deny Their Mistakes?

Posted on May 31, 2008
Having handled police chase cases for over a decade, I have yet to see a case in which the police admitted wrongdoing when a high speed pursuit turned out badly. Obviously, when a high speed pursuit ends in tragedy...

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Amputations and Infections

Posted on May 28, 2008
Our personal injury lawyers unfortunately have seen far too many cases involving traumatic amputations. In many of these cases, the tragedy is compounded by infection that sets in shortly after the original trauma. If one loses a leg below...

Car Accident Injury Study Shows Inadequate Seat Belt Use

Posted on May 22, 2008
Our Atlanta, Georgia car accident lawyers frequently review cases in which the occupants of cars have suffered severe injuries or death while not wearing seat belts. In many of these cases the injuries could have been prevented had seat belts...

Traumatic Electrical Injuries

Posted on May 21, 2008
Traumatically induced electrical injuries are not only a common form of trauma but also complex and potentially devastating to the victim. The physical and emotional manifestations and severity of electrical trauma encompass a wide spectrum of symptoms ranging from...

Glass Injuries from Unsafe Glass That Is Not "Safety Glass": How Dangerous Glass Causing Personal Injury and Death Continues to Endanger Unsuspecting Children and Adults

Posted on May 20, 2008
We are continually disturbed when we hear reports of persons injured by unsafe glass--decades after the need for "safety glazing" material (safety glass) was recognized. Our serious personal injury lawyers have delved deeply into the history of glass injuries in...

Serious Injury Paralysis Cases

Posted on May 18, 2008
Automobile collisions often cause serious spinal cord injuries. If the trauma suffered by the victim is severe enough it can cause either temporary or permanent paralysis. Studies have indicated that as many as fifty-five percent (55%) of all paralysis cases...

Medical Mistakes Not Uncommon

Posted on May 17, 2008
According to Healthgrades, an independent health care ratings company, 247,662 patients studied between 2003 and 2005 died from potentially preventable problems. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million patients every year suffer from mistakes with medications...

After Effects of Traumatic Amputations

Posted on May 17, 2008
It has been estimated that there are approximately 135,000 new amputations occurring each year in the United States. Twenty-two percent (22%) of these amputations (about 30,000) are estimated to be caused by traumatic events such as tractor-trailer collisions, car...

Another Tort Reformer Sues

Posted on May 15, 2008
In what seems to be a classic case of ?do as I say, not as I do,? one-time U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, an advocate for limiting the right of ordinary citizens to sue for damages, has settled...

Traumatic Brain Injuries Are On The Rise

Posted on May 14, 2008
In our personal injury practice, we have seen evidence here locally of what has been documented to be a growing and national problem. We have seen more and more brain injury cases resulting from traumatic events, typically tractor-trailer accidents, automobile...

Doctor Sues for Medical Negligence

Posted on May 12, 2008
Our Atlanta personal injury lawyers constantly hear calls form doctors and politicians to limit the rights of recovery of innocent patients injured by medical negligence. Often, the rights of these innocent patients are sacrificed for the monetary benefit of physicians...

High-Speed Police Chases: One Person Can Make A Difference

Posted on May 12, 2008
On our blog, we have written numerous articles about the dangers associated with high speed police chases. Our firm has handled numerous wrongful death and serious injury cases arising out of these very dangerous pursuits. By and large the...

Brain Injuries and the Uninsured

Posted on May 09, 2008
The saddest personal injury cases we see in our serious injury law practice often times involves those who have suffered traumatic brain injury resulting from an automobile, tractor-trailer collision or some other traumatic event, with these tragedies being seriously...

Insulin Pump Dangers

Posted on May 08, 2008
Federal regulators are sounding a warning about dangers associated with the use of insulin pumps by children and teenagers. Insulin pumps are used by tens of thousands of young people worldwide with Type 1 diabetes. The Food and Drug Administration...

MRSA Infections in Hospitals and the Community Continue to Rise

Posted on May 05, 2008
MRSA is a staph becteria which has been in the news in recent years as serious problems have been reported in hospitals and other health care facilities. Staph bacteria, even those that aren't resistant to antibiotics, have long caused...

Heparin Victims Testify Before Congress

Posted on May 02, 2008
Victims of the wrongful death of their loved ones testified this week before Congress concerning adulterated supplies of Heparin. One of the largest suppliers of this drug, which is used in kidney dialysis and various other surgeries to prevent...

Medical Group Fights Industry Influence

Posted on April 30, 2008
The Association of American Medical Colleges has proposed that drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in nation?s medical colleges. The Association has begun...

Reuse of Syringes Can Cause Dangerous Infections

Posted on April 29, 2008
Medical Malpractice takes many forms. In this article, we write about a unusual but dangerous medical error that can cause lifetime consequences for an innocent patient. Though most everyone knows that sharing needles is unsafe in today?s world, sharing...

Motorcycle Accidents on the Rise

Posted on April 28, 2008
Our personal injury practice reflects pretty much what we see in national statistics concerning the rising rate of motorcycle injuries and accidents. We are seeing more and more clients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents. In large part, this is...

AEDs Save Young Athletes

Posted on April 25, 2008
Portable defibrillators are becoming common equipment at youth athletic event. We have written in the past explaining how theses devices, also known as AEDs, help restart the heart in the event of an accident. A recent news report relates that...

Lasik Problems To Be Studied

Posted on April 25, 2008
Lasik vision correction surgery has been performed in the United States for almost ten years. It has become a massive business with specialized centers opening in most markets and advertising freedom from glasses. However, not everyone's a good candidate and...

Plastic Bottle Dangers

Posted on April 19, 2008
Wal-Mart announced this week that it will soon stop selling baby bottles made with the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). The retailer said that it was immediately stopping sales of baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, food containers and water bottles made...

TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT

Posted on April 18, 2008
Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became entangled in loose utility wires which completely obstructed a city...

Medical Record Privacy In Peril

Posted on April 18, 2008
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine, warns that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise new challenges to...

Insured Loses Katrina Claim

Posted on April 16, 2008
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that a flood exclusion in an "all-risk" policy barred a claim by the owner of an apartment building damaged by flood waters during Hurricane Katrina. The owner lived in the five-unit building when four...

Heparin Concerns Grow

Posted on April 15, 2008
This Tuesday federal regulators from the FDA urged makers of many kinds of medical devices that contain heparin to test their supplies. These concerns arise from previously discovered supplies of Chinese made heparin contaminated with a look-alike ingredient that mimicked...

Escalator Injuries Increasing

Posted on April 14, 2008
A new study reports that from 1991 to 2005, nearly 40,000 people older than 65 were injured while riding escalators, an average of 2,660 a year. The report, published in the March issue of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention,...

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