by admin | Aug 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
According to CBS Chicago, the Chicago Department of Public Health is announcing that three guests who stayed at theChicago JW Marriott have contracted Legionnaire’s Disease. The legionella bacteria is carried in air droplets, and breathing it can be deadly,...
by admin | Aug 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
In my previous post titled Who Can Bring a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Under Georgia Law?, I talked about Georgia’s wrongful death statute, which provides that when someone commits a tort that kills someone else, the family of the person who was killed can file a...
by admin | Aug 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s enough to make you stop wanting to eat cantaloupes. Back in October 2011, I wrote a series of legal blog entries about the listeriosis outbreak coming from cantaloupes coming from Jensen Farms in Colorado. More than 123 people became sick from a bacteria...
by admin | Aug 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
In my last blog entry, I wrote about a recent decision in which the United States intervened in a False Claims Act/qui tam lawsuit against a Japanese company accused of Customs fraud. The suit accuses Toyo Ink of defrauding U.S. Customs by pretending that its goods...
by admin | Aug 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
The United States has intervened in a False Claims Act suit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. John Dickson initially filed the whistleblower lawsuit, alleging that a Japanese company, Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co. Ltd.,...
by admin | Jul 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
More Georgia motorcyclists are dying in crashes on our roads than ever before. In a report released in January 2008, Georgia Crash Analysis, Statistics & Information Notebook, the Georgia Department of Transportation (“Georgia DOT” or...
by admin | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
I write a legal blog here in Georgia, discussing some of the issues I see as an accident and injury attorney. I have been talking about motorcycles, and how and why we are finding that more and more of them are being injured and killed on our highways. Both the...
by admin | Jul 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Georgia’s DOT released a 2008 study analyzing crash data – including data about motorcycle wrecks here in Georgia – that it had collected between the years 2000 and 2006. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, “NHTSA”,...
by admin | Jul 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
According to the Georgia Crash Analysis, Statistics & Information Notebook, a January 2008 report released by the Georgia Department of Transportation (“Georgia DOT” or “GADOT”), “[m]otorcyclists are at greater risk of being injured...
by admin | Jul 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Georgia Department of Transportation (“Georgia DOT”) keeps track of statistics related to car accidents in Georgia. It has issued a whole report about Deer Related Crashes here in Georgia. On average, for every 10,000 drivers in Georgia, each year 15.9...
