Sometimes, but the answer depends heavily on what made the highway dangerous. The Georgia Tort Claims Act allows certain claims against the state, yet it also retains immunity for the...
When a worker is hurt on the job by someone other than the employer, two paths to compensation open at once: workers' compensation benefits from the employer's insurer, and a...
This classification is often the single most important issue in a Georgia suit against a public employee. Whether the worker's conduct counts as ministerial or discretionary decides which immunity standard...
Sending a timely ante litem notice to the State of Georgia is not enough on its own; the notice must also include the specific categories of information the statute lists....
Sending the ante litem notice satisfies one requirement, but it does not stop the clock on filing suit. Under the Georgia Tort Claims Act, the notice and the lawsuit are...
In Georgia, yes. A workers' compensation insurer cannot enforce its subrogation lien against a worker's third-party recovery unless the worker has first been fully and completely compensated for the entire...
Actual malice is the narrow exception that lets an injured person reach a public official who would otherwise be shielded for a discretionary decision. Georgia sets the bar high, and...
Georgia law does pause, or "toll," the personal-injury limitation period for a child, so the two-year clock generally does not run against a minor while they are still under age....
Harm that builds up over months or years, rather than striking in a single moment, raises a harder timing question than a car crash does. Georgia still applies the two-year...
A pending criminal prosecution arising from the same incident can suspend the civil limitation period in Georgia. The law recognizes that a crime victim should not be forced to race...