Georgia Personal Injury Blog

Atlanta Georgia Wrongful Death Attorney Pool Slide Collapses Breaking Young Mom’s Neck In July of 2006 Robin Aleo, a 29 year old wife and mother, was attending a pool party at the home of relatives in Andover, Massachusetts. The relatives had purchased a Banzai inflatable in ground pool slide from Toys R Us and were [...]

Does Your State Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving? It is important to drive safely including the sensible use of cell phones. However, there have been changes in 2011 in some state laws involving the use of cell phones and it is important to keep up with these changes. No state prohibits all cell phone [...]

Atlanta Personal Injury Attorney Protects Rights of Bicycle Accident Victims Every year in the United States there are thousands of injuries & deaths caused to bicyclists by motor vehicles. Most of these accidents are the result of being struck by a moving vehicle. There are, however, a number of accidents caused by parked cars. These [...]

On September 14, 2011 the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a product recall of 30-pint portable Goldstar and Comfort-Aire dehumidifiers because they pose a serious fire and burn hazard. This is the second time the CPSC has issued a recall on these dehumidifiers which pose a product liability. The first recall was in December of [...]

The first week of September 2011 brought devastating news to Clayton County area families as 3 teenagers were hit by a car as they walked along GA 138 on Thursday afternoon. Clayton County Fatal Car Accident Antonious Bishop, who was 16, died at the scene of the accident. Octavius Sorrells, 17, died later that night [...]

The FDA is placing new restrictions on medicines containing Rosiglitazone. These prescription medications are sold under the names Avandia, Avandamet, and Avandaryl and are used to treat type 2 diabetes. In late 2010 the FDA began recommending that the use of Avandia be limited to type 2 diabetics who were unable to control their disease [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) visits nursing homes to see if they are providing the quality of care that is required of them. When they find problems the nursing homes are required to correct the situations. Nursing homes can be fined and/or dropped from participating in the Medicare and Medicaid program if [...]

Drivers of commercial vehicles in Georgia are required by law to have a commercial driver’s license (CDL) which has the proper endorsements for the weight and type of vehicle they will be driving. This means the driver with a CDL has passed required knowledge and skills tests. There are different tests for different types of [...]

The CDC estimates that 12,000 people each year die from alcohol-related vehicle crashes. That is about 1 person every 45 minutes. How can we help reduce the number of DUI related accidents, injuries and death? IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICES It has been found that instances of alcohol impaired driving was significantly reduced, by 70%, among those [...]

According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, using a cell phone while driving causes driver distraction which degrades driving performance and is serious enough to cause a driver to miss important visual and audio cues leading to crashes. This is true even when drivers use “hands free” devices with their cell phones. CELL [...]