For an injured child in Georgia, the ordinary two-year personal-injury deadline does not start ticking at the moment of the injury. The law treats minority as a legal disability and...
A nuisance theory is one of the recognized ways to pursue a Georgia municipality despite its immunity, but it is not a loophole that applies to every dangerous condition. Courts...
Official immunity is the personal protection Georgia law gives to individual public employees who are sued for things they did on the job. It is separate from the sovereign immunity...
An underinsured-motorist claim is tied closely to the injury suit against the at-fault driver, and in practice the timeline often tracks that underlying tort deadline. Georgia's uninsured and underinsured motorist...
A city's responsibility for a crash involving one of its emergency vehicles is not automatic, even when the city driver caused the collision. Sovereign immunity, the special rules that govern...
The statutory lien for medical care in Georgia is not limited to hospitals alone. The same part of the Code that creates the hospital lien also reaches certain other providers,...
A policy-limits demand is an offer to fully settle an injury claim in exchange for the at-fault driver's available coverage, usually within a stated deadline. It pressures a Georgia liability...
The jury sets the dollar amount of punitive damages in a Georgia jury trial. Under O.C.G.A. § 51-12-5.1, the trier of fact both decides whether punitive damages should be awarded...
Yes. The value of employment benefits an injured person loses because of another's negligence can be part of a Georgia claim. Benefits such as employer-provided health coverage, retirement contributions, and...
Generally no. Georgia treats punitive damages as dependent on an underlying recovery, so a plaintiff who is not entitled to compensatory damages ordinarily cannot collect punitive damages either. Under O.C.G.A....