I am pleased to report in the verdict department of a verdict yesterday in DeKalb County, Georgia of $4.7 Million in a medical malpractice case. No doubt the families of the victim had to wait years to realize this full dose of justice. Congratulations to Plaintiff’s counsel Bill Ballard and…
A very sad article appears in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution today about the unnecessary and tragic death of a North Georgia youth at an alternative school. The child hanged himself after being left for hours alone in a “seclusion” room. My friend Wyc Orr represents the mother and father…
It is with great pleasure that I report to my fair readers that the Georgia Court of Appeals has affirmed a $1.3 Million wrongful death verdict against the Georgia DOT. The case, Baldwin v. DOT, involved the Georgia DOT’s failure to notice and fix a stop sign that was down…
Recently, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution reported that walking while texting can be hazardous to your health. This may, in fact, be true…but I ask the question: Why is everyone so quick to blame the pedestrian? If you are behind the wheel of a 6,000 pound vehicle, shouldn’t you watch…
I am pleased to report a verdict last Friday, July 11, 2008 against the Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) in Taylor County in a wrongful death case. This was a death case against Georgia DOT in which the decedent motorist hydroplaned off the road into a beaver pond and drowned.…
All Georgia citizens who have replaced the tires on their cars in the last couple of years should immediately check the valve stems on the tires. They may be from a defectively manufactured lot of valve stems made by a company in China. There have been numerous instances of horrible…
Below is a news article from the Associated Press that details Allstate Insurance Company’s finally agreeing to pay a $7 Milliion fine for failing to disclose key documents regarding the manner in which it pays (or really, doesn’t pay) claims. The Missouri Supreme Court has held Allstate’s feet to the…
Federal roof crush rule has been delayed By Reni Gertner Staff writer Published: July 14, 2008 Just prior to the deadline for issuing a new roof crush standard, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that it is going back to the drawing board under pressure from Congress and…
Once again, in typical corporate fashion, the Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Lovejoy, Georgia, has denied any responsibility for its role in serving a customer a meal that, literally, killed him. The customer, who was allergic to crab meat, ordered Chicken Fresco, but, instead, was served Chicken Oscar, which has crab…
Do you remember the tragic Bluffton, Ohio baseball team bus crash that occurred here in Atlanta on I-75 last year? The Georgia DOT, in typical hard-headed fashion, denied any responsibility for their confusing road signs, which led the professional bus driver to continue to drive on what he believed to…