The tolling that protects an injured minor's ordinary lawsuit does not carry over cleanly to the pre-suit notice a government claim requires, and the answer depends on which government is...
Generally yes, when the design was prepared in substantial compliance with the engineering standards that applied at the time. The Georgia Tort Claims Act includes an exception that shields the...
A dismissal that decides the merits of a claim generally falls outside Georgia's renewal statute. The renewal mechanism is designed for cases that ended without a substantive ruling, so a...
For a claim against the State of Georgia, the method of delivery is part of the legal requirement, and certified mail is one of the approved ways to send it....
When the last day to file falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, Georgia does not force the filing to happen earlier. The deadline rolls forward to the next...
Georgia sets a firm window for filing a hospital lien, and a statement filed too late does not become a valid lien. Under O.C.G.A. § 44-14-471, a hospital must file...
A notice to a Georgia city must do more than announce that someone was hurt. The municipal ante litem statute lists the specific points the notice has to convey so...
Correcting a defendant's name after the limitation period can be possible when the problem is a genuine misnomer and the right party already had notice. Georgia's relation-back rule for party...
It helps to separate two different things a hospital might do: enforce its statutory lien against the recovery, and collect an underlying debt for the care it provided. The lien...
A crash caused by a state employee driving a state vehicle in the course of their job is the kind of claim the Georgia Tort Claims Act was designed to...