Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Coverage, or UM for short, is optional insurance that is part of your auto insurance. This insurance will reimburse you or a family member if you or they are in an auto accident with either an uninsured driver, a hit-and-run driver, or in some cases where the other driver has inadequate [...]

Everyone in Georgia is welcoming the recent rains, especially in light of last year’s drought. That is unless you are one of the many people who have slipped and hurt yourself when entering a business.Such injuries are called “slip-and-falls.” It occurs where someone slips or trips and then falls on someone else’s property. When a [...]

The GMAC Insurance just released its 2008 National Drivers Test results. They tested 5,524 drivers from all across the county using actual DMV test questions. Nationally, 16.4% of the drivers on the road today would not have passed a written DMV test. In the state rankings, 24.5% of Georgia residents would not have passed. Next [...]

The first step in almost any personal injury case is to obtain copies of all your medical records.  This step is doubly important in medical malpractice cases, where your medical records are the critical pieces of evidence in your case.  (There is a saying in medmal… “If it wasn’t charted, it didn’t happen”).  This task [...]

Once upon a time there was only one reason why I did not take auto accident cases involving only chiropractic treatment.  That reason was mainly based on my former days on the defense side where the most fun I ever had with cross-examining witnesses was with chiropractors.  There is just simply too much baggage a [...]

Speed plays an important role in many auto accident cases.  Evidence of speed can be used to determine forces of impact and punitive damages for reckless driving among other things.  Some of the new automobiles have “blackboxes” similar to those in airplanes and most tractor-trailers have them as well as GPS tracking devices.  But what [...]

There may be a silver lining in the pain felt at the pump these days.  Time Magazine recently noted higher gas prices causes people to drive slower and drive less.  Both “side-effects” have the potential to reduce the number of traffic accidents and fatalities in not only Georgia, but also nation wide.  Time consulted with [...]

The other day I received a phone call from a potential client who was in the process of getting his feet back on the ground after being in a coma.  He had been turned away from another law firm because there was not another car involved and he was told that firm only handled “two-car” [...]