Injuries

Georgia Workers’ Compensation Works!

Did you know that, accord­ing to the Geor­gia State Board of Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion… Geor­gia busi­nesses pay the 2nd low­est Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion assess­ment in the entire South­east; Geor­gia busi­nesses enjoy the 3rd low­est Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion cost per worker in the South­east; Geor­gia has the #1 low­est fre­quency of ‘lost-time’ claims in the South­east – that means […]

Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer Report – A Guide to Leg Fractures

As an expe­ri­enced Mari­etta per­sonal injury lawyer, I see many car acci­dents in which legs are bro­ken. While frac­tures may not always be viewed as seri­ously as trau­matic brain injuries and spinal injuries, bro­ken legs can be extremely painful and poten­tially life threat­en­ing. Frac­tures are com­mon in car crashes. Because of the force of the […]

Liability Questions over Fatal Hangar Collapse at Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport

It’s been a tough few weeks at the Pauld­ing North­west Atlanta Air­port near Mari­etta. It was hit by a pow­er­ful storm that flipped over planes and destroyed a hangar on March 2, 2012. As a Mari­etta, GA wrong­ful death lawyer my main con­cern is with an acci­dent a few days ear­lier when a hangar under construction […]

GA Injury Attorney Report – Man is Killed on ATV in Gainesville">Cartersville, GA Injury Attorney Report – Man is Killed on ATV in Gainesville

They may be fun to ride but as expe­ri­enced Mari­etta acci­dent injury attor­neys we are painfully aware of the dan­gers posed by All Ter­rain Vehi­cles (ATVs) in Geor­gia and else­where. The lat­est death to con­cern our ATV acci­dent lawyers in Geor­gia occurred on March 7, 2012 in East Hall near Gainesville. Christo­pher Black, 20, was riding […]

Columbus Injury Lawyer Report – Electronic Cigarette Explodes in Man’s Mouth

As per­sonal injury lawyers in Atlanta, GA, we some­times hear of a new dan­ger which can cause seri­ous dam­age or injury. A case in point is elec­tronic cig­a­rettes.  Although these devices are meant to help smok­ers kick a habit that’s dan­ger­ous in itself, one man try­ing to give up smok­ing in Florida suf­fered a terrible […]

Do You Need a Lawyer If You’ve Been Injured in a Slip and Fall Accident?

Have you suf­fered a slip-and-fall acci­dent? These types of acci­dents are very com­mon, and usu­ally involve an acci­den­tal slip on a slick sur­face, result­ing in a fall. If this has hap­pened to you, the first thing you need to do is to get med­ical atten­tion if you need it. Once your injuries are treated, you can […]

The Facts About Burn Injuries

As expe­ri­enced Atlanta burn injury lawyers, we know that each year in the U.S. about half a mil­lion vic­tims of burn injuries seek treat­ment.  Accord­ing to the ABA (Amer­i­can Burn Asso­ci­a­tion), 94% of these vic­tims sur­vive their injuries, which are some of the most painful and life alter­ing any­one can endure. Burn injuries often cause […]

Why Do Slip and Fall Accidents Occur?

Each day peo­ple slip and fall. Some­times they fall from clum­si­ness, but other times they fall from slip­pery or unsafe sur­faces. Sim­ply stated, slip and fall acci­dents typ­i­cally occur because we do not con­sciously rec­og­nize a change in the sur­face we are walk­ing along, usu­ally no more than 10 or 20 feet in front of […]

SSDI: What Is It & How Do I Qualify?">SSDI: What Is It & How Do I Qualify?

Many times, those who need help the most have the most dif­fi­cult time get­ting it.  There are sev­eral gov­ern­ment pro­grams designed for those in need;  how­ever, fig­ur­ing out which one is right for you can be a bit con­fus­ing.  One of the pri­mary Fed­eral pro­grams is called Social Secu­rity Dis­abil­ity Insur­ance or SSDI for short.  […]

What Are The Most Common Workplace Injuries?

Some jobs put work­ers at a higher risk of injury than oth­ers.  Obvi­ously, those who work on con­struc­tion sites, man­u­fac­tur­ing plants, ware­houses, or who drive trucks are at an increased risk of injuries due to the nature of their jobs. How­ever, any type of job involves some risk; you may injure your back reach­ing for an […]

Atlanta Motorcyclist Loses Life in Crash With Accused Drunk Driver

On August 5th, 2011 a 23 year old Atlanta man lost his life after a car pulled in front of his oncom­ing motor­cy­cle.  While motor­cy­cles rid­ers are some­times at fault, in this case (as in most cases involv­ing a car and a motor­cy­cle) the man dri­ving the car was cited by the police for being at fault.  Police […]

Is Man’s Best Friend Putting You at Risk of A Serious Accident?

While no spe­cific stud­ies have been per­formed to sub­stan­ti­ate the dan­gers of dri­ving with a pet, experts now warn that unre­strained pets — par­tic­u­larly dogs — are believed to be respon­si­ble for tens of thou­sands of acci­dents each year. Geor­gia auto­mo­bile acci­dent lawyers have long been aware of the most com­mon dis­trac­tions respon­si­ble for acci­dents.  Talking […]

Bus Safety — Back to School

August has arrived and the chil­dren will soon be headed back to school.  There is excite­ment in the air, per­haps mixed with a bit of dis­ap­point­ment that sum­mer time has come to and end.  How­ever, with all the chaos and excite­ment of the first days of school it is very easy for the lit­tle ones […]

Three Ways to Maximize Your Personal Injury or Workers’ Comp Claim

There are three key ways to be pre­pared to max­i­mize your per­sonal injury claim or work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion claim in Geor­gia. First, there is what I’ll call “finan­cial prepa­ra­tion.” Sec­ond, what I’ll call “cov­er­age prepa­ra­tion.” Third, what I’ll call “legal prepa­ra­tion.” I will dis­cuss each of these in turn below.

Nursing Home Employees with Criminal Convictions

As this video from the AARP illus­trates, the num­ber of ex-convicts work­ing with our most vul­ner­a­ble elderly pop­u­la­tion is stag­ger­ing. The video expands on a US Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices study that obtained the names of over 35,000 nurs­ing home indus­try employ­ees and cross-referenced them with the records of the Fed­eral Bureau of […]

Nursing Home Information for Families

As the baby-boom gen­er­a­tion begins its final ascent into retire­ment and the golden years, the thought of care becomes more of an issue. There are an esti­mated 78 mil­lion baby boomers in Amer­ica today. A senior cit­i­zen (65+) has about a one-in-three chance of spend­ing time in a nurs­ing home (skilled care facil­ity). This is […]

Whiplash

Whiplash, also known as neck strain or neck sprain in an injury to the cer­vi­cal area (neck). With a whiplash injury there is dam­age to the disk, nerves and ten­dons located between the ver­te­bra. Whiplash occurs with a sud­den snap­ping, or whip­ping motion of the head gen­eral caused by car acci­dents and cer­tain job injuries.

Brain Injuries

Brain injuries are seri­ous. Even a “mild” brain injury can have seri­ous life-altering effects. Every year nearly 1.5 mil­lion Amer­i­cans expe­ri­ence some type of head trauma. Regard­less of whether the injury is clas­si­fied as “mild”, “mod­er­ate”, or “severe”,

Disk Herniation

What is a disk her­ni­a­tion? The disks in your spine are thin, oblong struc­tures that serve as cush­ions between the bones of your back (ver­te­brae). Each disk is made up of a soft gel core sur­rounded by a tough, fibrous outer shell. This struc­ture allows the disk to be firm enough to main­tain the space […]

Atlanta Truck Accident Lawyers

Expe­ri­enced Geor­gia High­way Injury Lawyers Large semi trucks weigh thou­sands of pounds and cause seri­ous per­sonal injuries and death when they col­lide with cars, motor­cy­cles, and other vehi­cles in a tractor-trailer acci­dent, espe­cially at high­way speeds. The Atlanta Truck Acci­dent Lawyers at The Keener Law Firm are expe­ri­enced attor­neys who han­dle large truck acci­dent cases […]

Airplane Accidents

Fatal Air­plane Crash Prompts Law­suit A law­suit has been filed over a plane crash that occurred in Feb­ru­ary 2009 in north­ern Cal­i­for­nia, result­ing in the death of three peo­ple. The suit, filed by the fam­ily of one of the pas­sen­gers, claims the crash could have been avoided had the plane’s owner and pilot took proper […]

DUI) Fatalities & Accidents">Cities With Most Drunk Driving (DUI) Fatalities & Accidents

List of Worst Drunk Dri­ving Cities Nation­wide, fatal car acci­dents involv­ing drunk dri­vers have been on the decline. Last fall, a study was released list­ing the 20 cities in the United States where drunk dri­ving is most preva­lent, and Atlanta has avoided mak­ing the list.* *(Atlanta may have avoided the list due to lax DUI enforcement […]

DUI Accidents">DUI Accidents

A Brief His­tory of Drunk Dri­ving Candy Light­ner, the mother of a 13 year-old girl killed by a drunk dri­ver, founded MADD in 1980. Groups imme­di­ately sprang up around the coun­try and sev­eral impor­tant changes took place: Within three years, states and com­mu­ni­ties passed 129 new laws to stop drunk dri­ving, accord­ing to MADD. The National […]

Contaminated Food Injuries

FDA recalls lead-contaminated Pak­istan can­dies The AP (1/28) reported the US dis­trib­u­tor of Pakistan-imported candy chew bars is recall­ing them “because of lead con­t­a­m­i­na­tion,” the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion announced. Indianapolis-based Candy Dynam­ics dis­trib­uted the bars, which are called Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge. The FDA said no one has fallen ill but “ele­vated lead content […]

Contaminated Food Can Cause Food Poisoning

Fed­eral Agents Seize Unpas­teur­ized Cheese Over Con­t­a­m­i­na­tion Con­cerns The Los Ange­les Times (1/29, Huff­s­tut­ter) reported that “US mar­shals and Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion agents arrived at Tulare County cheese maker Bravo Farms and seized” scores of “wedges of raw-milk Gouda cheese” in addi­tion to “piles of Edam and blocks of white ched­dar. All told, investigators […]

Georgia Food Poisoning Lawyers

Cilantro Recalled Over Sal­mo­nella Fears The AP (1/29) reported, “A Cen­tral Cal­i­for­nia com­pany is recall­ing four brands of fresh cilantro because they may be con­t­a­m­i­nated with sal­mo­nella.” On Fri­day, “Sabor Farms in Sali­nas announced the recall” of “cilantro…sold between Jan. 14 and Jan. 28 under the labels Nature’s Reward, Ocean Mist, Tan­imura & Antle, and Queen […]

Dangerous Condition

Busi­nesses invite patrons onto their premises each and every day to make a profit. Geor­gia Law says that busi­nesses and land­lords are respon­si­ble for ensur­ing that their premises are com­pletely safe and free from haz­ardous con­di­tions that could cause injuries to their invited guests. Oth­er­wise, their insur­ance com­pany may be respon­si­ble for pay­ing you appropriate […]

Reduce Med-Mal Claims

The pri­mary spon­sor of HR5, the Tort Reform Bill in Con­gress is Geor­gia physi­cian / con­gress­man, Phil Gin­grey. This is impor­tant because Dr. Gin­grey has been the sub­ject of three med­ical mal­prac­tice claims in his med­ical career. The New York Times and oth­ers have reported that Dr. Gin­grey set­tled a law­suit for $500,000 in a […]

Defective Auto Repair

Auto Deal­er­ship to Pay Por­tion of $14 Mil­lion Set­tle­ment in Rollover Crash The AP (1/11) reported that three sons of a cou­ple who were killed in a 2006 auto acci­dent have been awarded $14.5 mil­lion in a wrong­ful death suit. The jury also

Train Accidents

Col­li­sions with other trains is the most com­mon type of train acci­dent. Fol­lowed by, col­li­sions with a pas­sen­ger vehi­cle, and finally train acci­dents involv­ing a sin­gle train. These types of acci­dents can be caused by improp­erly main­tained tracks, unsafe inter­sec­tions, train derail­ment, or mechan­i­cal failure.

Pharmacy Errors

Health­Day has reported, “Con­fu­sion caused by look-alike and sound-alike names con­tributes to a large num­ber of the painkiller pre­scrip­tion errors that occur in hos­pi­tals,” accord­ing to a study pub­lished in the Jan­u­ary 2011 issue of The Jour­nal of Pain. Researchers reviewed “714,290 orders for painkillers in a large data­base of pharmacist-detected-and-prevented pre­scrib­ing errors.” The researchers […]

Return to Work

If your doc­tor has you totally writ­ten out of work or has you writ­ten to restric­tions so severe that your employer can­not or will not pro­vide you a job, you are enti­tled to weekly income ben­e­fits. How­ever, if your doc­tor writes you back to work on some type of lim­ited duty, your employer will likely submit […]

Teens on Cell Phones

Accord­ing to a Texas Trans­porta­tion Insti­tute report, from 1999 to 2008 there has been a 10% increase in the pro­por­tion of deadly night­time traf­fic crashes involv­ing US teen dri­vers. This increase can be largely attrib­uted to cell phone use and text

Atlanta Motorcycle Accident Attorney

Did you know that there was over 6 mil­lion reg­is­tered motor­cy­cles on United States high­ways in 2009. As the pop­u­lar­ity of motor­cy­cles has con­tin­ued to increase, so has the rate of acci­dents and fatal­i­ties. Over 40,000 motor­cy­cle rid­ers died in acci­dents last year, and the number of

Authorized Treating Physician

One of the most impor­tant aspects of your Geor­gia work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion case is the choice of your Autho­rized Treat­ing Physi­cian (ATP).  Every work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion case in Geor­gia has one autho­rized treat­ing physi­cian. The ATP is your pri­mary doc­tor.  He is the med­ical gate­keeper of your case.  He has total and exclu­sive con­trol of your medical […]

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