Comprehensive Legal Support For Victims Of Serious Injuries
Four people suffered injuries while attending a party this May when a second-floor patio collapsed. The injury victims were standing with a group of people on a second-floor patio at the Landmark at Banyan Bay apartments, as food was being cooked. Those hurt in the fall sustained minor injuries. The cause of the collapse has not yet been determined. When…
The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has cited Koch Foods of Mississippi for several safety violations at the company’s production facility in Morton, Mississippi. The agency reportedly investigated the Koch Foods poultry processing plant after two workers suffered injuries this past spring. It also coincided with OSHA’s Regional Emphasis Program for Poultry Processing Facilities. As a result of…
Georgia law requires property owners to keep their buildings and grounds reasonably clear of hazards to prevent injuries to those visiting them. Visitors, shoppers and others hurt on someone else’s property can bring premises liability claims in court to seek compensation for their injuries. While the most well-known category of premises liability involves slip and fall accidents, property owners have…
Concussions are a form of brain injury typically associated with athletes such as football players and boxers. Recent data from the University of Georgia, however, has left many people in the sporting and medical communities surprised — at UGA, the school’s cheerleaders experience concussions at a higher rate than the football players do. As cheerleading has become a more intense…
When someone is found guilty of driving under the influence (DUI), he or she may face significant criminal penalties. These potential penalties are even greater, however, if someone else was injured or killed in a drunk driving-related crash. Vehicular homicide is a crime with three different elements. It means (1) a homicide was committed (2) by means of a vehicle,…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reported that a tractor-trailer driver will serve five years in prison after pleading guilty to causing a crash on I-16 that killed five Georgia Southern University nursing students and seriously injured two others. John Wayne Johnson, 56, admitted in a deposition that he’d used his cellphone to text and exchange sexually provocative messages with a woman…
Actress Thadea Williams’ promising career was tragically cut short on February 28 when she was killed in a late-night traffic accident in Savannah. The 30-year-old Stone Mountain resident, who appeared in such films as The Hunger Games, Fast and Furious 7, and The Single Moms Club, was a passenger sitting in the front seat of a Hyundai Accent driven by…
It’s quite difficult to drive a tractor-trailer, especially when the operator is on the road with other motorists who are overly aggressive. Here are a few tips that can help you avoid an accident when sharing the road with truck drivers: Avoid the truck’s blind spots. Blind spots are large and numerous on tractor-trailers. They are at the very rear…
Gwinnett County police are reaching out to the public to ask for help in finding witnesses to a December accident that left one person dead and another in serious condition at a local hospital. The accident occurred December 9 at approximately 5 p.m. at the intersection of Patricia Terrace and Loganville Highway. According to police, the driver of a car…
When most people think of self-driving vehicles, their mind turns to Google’s small fleet of autonomous cars that are mostly confined to the roadways of California. While the technology is still costly, the truth is that self-driving vehicles are already considered safer than the human drivers who cause more than 30,000 deaths on American roadways each year. And those autonomous…