Pedestrian accidents pose a unique risk of injury because a person who is in a crosswalk has little chance of evading an approaching driver who is not paying attention.

During the summer, many people engage in adrenaline producing recreational activities that can cause serious injury.

If you are involved in a car accident that causes vehicle damage and personal injury, you are likely to incur substantial expenses such as hospital bills, medical expenses, lost wages, future diminished earnings and other damages.

While drivers that fail to drive prudently or to obey traffic safety laws pose a danger to everyone with whom they share the road, pedestrians are particularly vulnerable to careless drivers. Many pedestrian accidents are the product of drivers who are under the influence of alcohol or distracted behind the wheel.

There are many types of hazards, neglect and abuse that can result in severe injuries, debilitating illness or even the wrongful death of a nursing home resident.

This is the second installment of our two-part blog post (Part 1)providing an overview of the timing requirements that impact personal injury claims in Georgia.

When people are coping with the pain, stress and disorientation which often results from a significant car crash or other type of accident or intentional criminal act, understandably the focus for most car accident injury victims is, and needs to be, on medical treatment and rehabilitation.

A severe burn injury often causes overwhelming pain and disfigurement that may entail a long difficult process of surgeries and rehabilitation.

Although federal traffic safety agencies like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have devoted an enormous amount of attention to the growing epidemic of distracted driving, far less attention has been placed on collisions involving distracted pedestrians.

Atlanta intersections can be very dangerous places for pedestrians because they have relatively no protection when they are struck by a motor vehicle.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, many families are making travel plans that include stays in motels and hotels in Atlanta and the surrounding areas of Georgia.

Because no type of motor vehicle accident victim is more exposed to a higher risk of injury than pedestrians, those who walk, jog or run for pleasure, exercise or a mode of transportation need to understand their risk of injury, as well as their legal rights and actions that need to be taken to protect those rights, if they are involved in a pedestrian accident in Georgia.

A deadly train derailment this past Thanksgiving weekend that claimed the lives of at least four people and caused injury to at least sixty others serves as a testament to the complexity of interpreting the cause of many transportation accidents.

Spinal injuries are among the most common type of serious injury suffered in a motor vehicle accident.

If a defective product causes a severe debilitating injury, then a product liability claim or lawsuit may offer the best alternative for the injured party to seek redress for his or her diminished quality of life, along with financial compensation for the victim’s medical bills, lost income and other forms of tangible and intangible loss.

While there is an often repeated saying that “a picture is a worth a thousand words,” this saying was coined long before video footage was common.

In recent years, traffic safety experts have observed a “good news-bad news” scenario in term of auto accidents caused by substance impaired drivers.

A brain injury, whether it’s caused by a car crash on a busy Atlanta road or by a falling two-by-four on a job site, can be a life-changing event that forces injury victims to cope with pain and financial difficulties for years.

Many people who suffer incapacitating injuries, or lose a loved one to a drunk driver, from a foreseeable and preventable act of violence or an a castrophic injury caused by a texting driver or and exhausted big-rig driver, do not receive the recovery they should because they make mistakes that damage their personal injury or wrongful death claim.

This is the final installment of our three-part blog post providing information to parents of Georgia teenagers.