Yes. A federal regulation, 42 C.F.R. § 411.37, requires Medicare to reduce what it recovers from an injury settlement to account for the attorney fees and litigation costs the injured...
Filing after the limitation period has expired usually means the claim can be dismissed, regardless of how strong it might otherwise be. A missed deadline is one of the most...
Georgia generally gives an injured person two years to file a personal-injury lawsuit. The clock is set by statute, and missing it usually means the claim is barred no matter...
In most situations, yes. The Georgia Tort Claims Act specifically preserves the state's immunity for how, or whether, law enforcement protection is provided. A failure to protect or to respond...
Before suing the State of Georgia for an injury, a claimant must first send a formal written warning called an ante litem notice, and the time to do so is...
Once a defendant's fraudulent concealment comes to light, the protective pause ends and the limitation period begins to run. Under Georgia law the clock that was held in suspense by...
A wrongful death claim against a municipality must clear the same pre-suit notice hurdle as any other injury claim against a Georgia city. The fact that the case arises from...
Insurance contracts sometimes contain their own time limits, and in some settings those contractual deadlines can be shorter than the general statute. Whether a policy can compress the time to...
No. Georgia law tolls a limitation period for a legal disability both when the disability exists at accrual and, separately, when a qualifying disability begins after the clock has started....
Claims for damage to a vehicle have a longer deadline than claims for bodily injury. Georgia generally allows four years to sue for property damage, including damage to a car,...