Category Archives: Personal Injury
Determining When a Workplace Accident Is a Workers’ Compensation Claim or a Personal Injury Claim
Workplace accidents can be life-altering events, leading to significant injuries, loss of income, and extensive medical bills. It is crucial for those injured on the job to understand whether their case falls under workers’ compensation or should be pursued as a personal injury claim. While both legal avenues offer pathways to compensation, they operate… Read More »
Uninsured Motorist Coverage in Georgia: What You Need to Know
Auto accidents are an unfortunate reality on Georgia’s roads. Georgia requires all drivers to have liability insurance coverage. While most drivers are conscientious about carrying adequate insurance, some do not have sufficient (or any) coverage for the damages they cause. This is where uninsured motorist (UM) and underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage come into play…. Read More »
Personal Injury Versus Wrongful Death in Georgia
Personal injuries can take many different forms when they occur in the Macon area, and they can result from a wide range of accidents or intentionally harmful acts. Many personal injuries happen in motor vehicle collisions, including large truck crashes and pedestrian or bicycle collisions. Yet personal injuries can also result from dog bites,… Read More »
Children and Personal Injuries
Nobody wants to think about the possibility that their child might sustain debilitating or fatal injuries in an avoidable accident at school, playing sports, while using a toy designed for children to use safely, or while enjoying time with a neighbor’s dog. Yet personal injuries affect children more often than many of us would… Read More »
What is a Statute of Limitations in a Personal Injury Case in Georgia?
How much time does a person have to file a lawsuit after a personal injury? In other words, what is the time window for filing a civil lawsuit after a motor vehicle crash, a slip and fall accident, or another type of injury in Macon, Georgia? These questions all concern the statute of limitations… Read More »
What is Comparative Fault in a Georgia Personal Injury Case?
If you were recently injured in an accident or in another type of incident in the Macon area and you believe another party is liable, you might be thinking about filing a personal injury claim. In researching personal injury lawsuits, or in discussing your case with friends or family members, you might have come… Read More »
Recognizing the Signs & Dispelling the Myths of Concussions
It is arguably a damaging myth – pervasive in our society – that concussions only occur to those who are involved in contact sports, such as football. In fact, an estimated 80 percent of those who experience concussions incur them in another setting, such as at school, at home, on the road, in the… Read More »
Strong Push to Protect Biggest Victims of Truck Accidents: The Elderly
In light of recent reports, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is urging federal regulators within the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to do more to protect elderly pedestrians from getting hit by trucks, specifically, to require heavy duty trucks to be equipped with pedestrian automatic… Read More »
Catastrophic Injury from Moving Walkways Brings Machinery Into Question
In late June, one airline passenger suffered a terrible, catastrophic injury after an accident on a moving airport walkway. According to reports, she was using the walkway as intended when part of it collapsed and pulled her leg into it, resulting in her leg being amputated at the knee. According to statistics, more than… Read More »
When Silence in Nursing Homes Turns Deadly
A side of nursing home abuse that does not instantly come to mind when you think of “abuse,” which tends to elicit the idea of physical abuse – is what fear, combined with negligence, can do to nursing home residents. Specifically, a significant number of residents in nursing homes live in fear of speaking… Read More »