A child's claim for harm to property follows a different limitation period than the child's bodily-injury claim, even though minority can suspend both. The starting length of each clock is...
Sending the state's ante litem notice to the right place is as important as sending it on time. The Georgia Tort Claims Act designates a central office to receive these...
Yes. When Georgia Medicaid pays for medical care arising from an injury that another party caused, state law gives the program a right to recover those payments from a personal-injury...
Yes. Decisions about granting, refusing, suspending, or revoking licenses and permits fall within an exception in the Georgia Tort Claims Act that keeps the state immune. The legislature treated these...
The single question that decides this is who actually pays the claims. In a self-funded plan, the employer bears the financial risk and pays medical claims out of its own...
A spouse's loss-of-consortium claim in Georgia generally carries a four-year deadline, which is longer than the two-year period for the underlying bodily-injury claim. This means the consortium claim can sometimes...
A claim against the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority is a government claim, and it does not follow the same rules as an ordinary car-accident case. MARTA is a public...
The controlling provision for most personal-injury claims in Georgia is O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33. It establishes a two-year limitation period for actions seeking recovery for injuries to the person, and it...
A crash involving a public school bus is a government claim from the moment it happens, which changes the rules that apply. The bus is operated by a local school...
Suing a Georgia school district over a child's injury is possible only in narrow circumstances, because school systems are arms of local government that carry sovereign immunity. The starting assumption...