If your loved one dies in a car crash because of someone driving under the influence, the state of Georgia allows you to sue the person or company responsible. A wrongful death lawsuit is a lawsuit filed in civil court. Although the individual allegedly responsible...
Spinal cord injuries increase the risk of mental health issues
Your physical and mental health are closely related. If your physical health is affected by illness or injury, it may adversely impact your mental health. For a spinal cord injury that results in paraplegia or quadriplegia, the injury and side effects from treatment...
3 tips before accepting an insurer’s auto injury settlement
If you have experienced a major injury following an auto collision, you may be facing overwhelming medical bills. Worse, a lengthy recovery may mean you have to take time off work, making it even more difficult to make ends meet. In Georgia, if another driver’s...
The real number of catastrophic injuries
Anyone who is involved in a car accident could be at risk of a serious or catastrophic injury. Accidents leading to catastrophic injuries are not uncommon. How many catastrophic injuries really happen? The statistics vary, but when you break down the information into...
Raising awareness is one key to lowering motorcyclist fatalities
Motorcyclists should be able to ride the streets with the same expectation of arriving at their destination as anyone in a passenger vehicle. However, this is all too often not the case for riders, according to the motorcycle riders group, Bikers Count, which has a...
What are the biggest dangers of sharing the road with trucks?
When you hit the road, you need to remain cognizant of other drivers the entire time. After all, their actions can directly impact your safety. This is why so many people put an emphasis on driving safely around trucks in particular. What about trucks make them so...
What qualifies as a catastrophic injury?
It goes without saying that some injuries are more serious than others. While most all injuries you sustain cause you pain and require you to spend time away from work recovering, only a few rise to the level of catastrophic. The Lawyer Monthly reports that, although...
Top 3 reasons to hire a personal injury lawyer
You have a serious injury following a collision with a car, motorcycle or truck. Perhaps you lost a loved one in the crash. Bills are piling up, but your injury is preventing you from returning to your job. You may feel capable of settling your injury claim on your...
Could your car accident have lead to a traumatic brain injury?
While working on receiving compensation for your recent car accident, you must also remember to take care of yourself and recover from your sustained injuries. Keep in mind that some injuries, like a traumatic brain injury (TBI), can take several days before they...
When an auto accident results in a TBI
By definition, you sustain a traumatic brain injury when you hit your head hard enough that your neck jerks violently forward and backward, causing your brain to “slosh around” inside your skull. The resulting damage to your brain causes it to malfunction, resulting...
