The Atlanta Journal and Constitution’s Editorial Board came out on Monday in favor of legislation currently pending in the Georgia General Assembly that would toughen penalties for teenagers who are caught not wearing their seatbelts while they are driving or riding in a car. The legislation, HB 924, is currently…
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Georgia DOT Untrustworthy
Georgia citizens are being placed at risk by the Georgia Department of Transportation. Two Georgia DOT bridge inspectors have now admitted they lied when they certified 54 Georgia bridges as being safe. David Simmons, who worked in a team with Gerald Kelsey, admitted to filing reports for 54 bridges they…
Car Seats Save Lives~Buckle Up the Ones You Love
This child never had a chance. Yesterday, in Atlanta, a two month old infant was killed because she was sitting in her mother’s lap while her mother was driving a car and hit a telephone pole. The air bag deployed, as it should, and the infant died immediately. The mother…
$36.5 Million Verdict Against Swift Trucking Company
An Arizona jury returned a plaintiff’s verdict yesterday of a whopping $36.5 Million against Swift Trucking Company for Swift Trucking’s driver’s negligence in causing a horrible crash that killed the father of eight children. $13.5 Million of the verdict was for punitive damages to punish Swift for not producing their…
Log Truck Accident Kills 12 Year Old
Another log truck accident in Milledgeville, Georgia has killed a 12 year old girl and injured her mother. The accident happened on Sparta Highway in Baldwin County. Although much of the Georgia economy depends on logging, these accidents with logging trucks happen too often and, when they do, they are…
Progressive Insurance Company’s Conduct is Reprehensible in Georgia
What could be scarier this Halloween? Tonight on Anderson Cooper 360° prepare to hear a chilling story of lies and deceit as the story of two everyday Americans are haunted by undercover agents in their own church. Progressive Insurance willingly accepted the premiums that Bill and Leandra Pitts paid them…
First Bluffton, Ohio Bus Crash Lawsuit Filed in Atlanta, Georgia
I read in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution this weekend that the first lawsuit regarding the Bluffton, Ohio bus crash, that killed or injured the members of a Bluffton, Ohio baseball team, was filed in Atlanta, Georgia. The article may not have detailed all the counts alleged or all of…
Progressive Insurance Admits to Violating the Privacy of Its Insureds in Georgia
Here in Georgia, Progressive Insurance Company has admitted to spying on its own insureds in a confidential church group. Progressive Insurance Company hired two private eyes to spy on Progressive’s own insureds by infiltrating the couple’s private, confidential church group, lying about their identities and their motives, so that they…
Teen Cellphone Use in Atlanta, Georgia Illegal?
Teen cellphone use while driving is not illegal yet in Georgia, or in Metropolitan Georgia, but it should be. Too many teens are getting killed or injured, or killing others, while using the cellphone while driving. As a trial lawyer here in Metropolitan Atlanta, I see it all too often,…
Georgia Children Are Dying From Defective SUV’s That Lack Back-up Cameras
The loss of a child saddens me and it is especially tough when the child’s death was preventable. In the last two weeks, children in two separate incidents were killed when they were run over by one of their parents who was driving an SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle). The first…