Trucking companies responsible for making sure employees follow safety rules
As a trucking safety attorney in Georgia, I sometimes find trucking companies trying to disown their driver’s safety violations. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, which are designed to...
View ArticleAtlanta’s snow storm traffic problems mostly tractor trailers
Like most Atlantans, I was stuck at home for three days this week, catching up on home repair projects and watching weather reports and scenes of truck wrecks on TV. Fortunately, there was no power...
View ArticlePublication of trucking safety data cleared by DC Circuit Court of Appeals
In truck crash litigation in Georgia, we see how smaller trucking companies often have the least focus on safety rules enforcement. For example, I am now preparing for trial in a case where a small...
View ArticleTrucking accident statistics highlight dangers on highways
We often see the tragic outcomes of catastrophic trucking accidents in my Atlanta-based law practice. Therefore, when I travel on the highways I am notice the minority of truckers who ignore safety...
View ArticleStruggling with rules on when public defenders can represent co-defendants
As president of the State Bar of Georgia, I have occasion to work on a number of issues and controversies beyond the scope of my own personal injury, wrongful death and commercial trucking accident...
View ArticleThe learning curve of a bar president
In the past 10 days this plaintiffs’ trial lawyer, in the capacity of State Bar of Georgia president, has co-presided over a joint meeting of the State Bar Executive Committee and the Georgia Supreme...
View ArticleTractor trailer speed in curve cause of woman’s death
A tractor trailer’s excessive speed in a curve was blamed for the big rig tipping over Friday morning, killing a woman en route to pick up the diploma of her daughter who had graduated from high school...
View ArticleABCO Transportation’s record of unsafe driving violations culminates in...
ABCO Transportation, Inc., a refrigerated freight haulder based in Dade City, Florida, has had for several years an unsatisfactory record of unsafe driving violations with the Federal Motor Carrier...
View ArticleGarbage hauler’s poor maintenance leads to death of 8 year old, loss of mom’s...
CW Transport, LLC is a four-truck garbage hauling company in metro Atlanta. Though small in size, it is large in vehicle maintenance and unsafe driving violations. That bad record culminated in an...
View ArticleKey Georgia legislator tells tort reform advocates to go slowly and work...
Georgia State Capitol 1904 The Georgia Chamber of Commerce held a forum on tort reform last week. According to today’s Daily Report, Rep. Rich Golick, chair of the House Non-Civil Judiciary Committee...
View ArticleWhen truck drivers are hurt by other drivers in Georgia, check uninsured...
When a commercial truck driver is killed or seriously injured due to the negligence of the driver of a smaller vehicle, it is important to find out whether the insurance policy on the commercial truck...
View Article“Extreme caution” safety rule requires truckers to slow down or crawl on icy...
As Georgia faces the prospect of a winter storm this week, we also face the prospect of truck wrecks caused by violations of an important trucking safety rule. Last year, for example, a Georgia DOT...
View ArticleLegal alchemy – turning lead into gold by finding adequate insurance
If we have a nearly unique niche in our law practice it is the search for vastly more insurance for catastrophic truck crash cases where the visible insurance coverage is terribly inadequate. Other law...
View ArticleTrucking safety measurement system falls to industry lobbying
“TMI” for “too much information” is a common, joking expression for overdisclosure of personal details in conversation or social media. Now it appears that trucking companies with bad safety records...
View ArticleFatality and burn injury in truck crash on I-95 at Richmond Hill, Georgia
A fiery crash on I-95 at Richmond Hill near Savannah in Chatham County on July 26th caused the wrongful death of a woman and sent her husband to a specialized burn unit in Augusta. It appears all too...
View ArticleCalifornia trucker killed sideswiping truck parked overnight on shoulder of I-16
A young truck driver from California lost his life on the side of I-16 in Laurens County, Georgia, on March 2nd. This tragedy highlights how truck drivers are in one of the most dangerous occupations....
View ArticleFour big rig pileup kills woman on I-285 near Camp Creek Parkway exit
A chain reaction crash involving four big rig tractor trailers on I-285 near Camp Creek Parkway in south Fulton County, GA, killed a woman in a passenger car on June 19, 2018. According to the Georgia...
View ArticleOvercoming the independent contractor defense
Much of our Atlanta-based litigation law practice is based upon referrals from other attorneys around Georgia and North America for catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Georgia. Most of...
View ArticleTractor trailer merging from shoulder in darkness kills motorist on I-95
An approaching driver’s view of a tractor trailer pulling from breakdown lane into traffic in the dark A tractor-trailer pulled from the highway shoulder in front of an approaching SUV on I-95 in...
View ArticleWhat is the law in Georgia on negligent hiring and retention of a truck driver?
Often in a catastrophic truck crash, the trucking company admits that the truck driver was negligent and was in the course and scope of employment. That is a smart tactic to attempt to focus all blame...
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