An implanted device that fails because of a defect can support a Georgia product claim, but these cases carry features that ordinary product suits do not, including the learned-intermediary relationship...
Future skin grafts and reconstructive surgeries are recoverable in a Georgia severe-burn case when the medical evidence shows those procedures are reasonably necessary going forward. Serious burns rarely heal with...
A life-care plan is built by a specially trained professional, most often a certified life-care planner who is also a rehabilitation nurse, physician, or rehabilitation counselor. The document projects every...
A person struck by a car while walking can often turn to their own auto uninsured motorist coverage, even though they were not in a vehicle. Georgia UM coverage for...
A settlement that has to support decades of medical and personal care raises a different question than an ordinary auto claim: not just how much money changes hands, but how...
Georgia allows uninsured motorist coverage to be written in two different forms, and which one an insured has can dramatically change how much money is actually available after a serious...
Permanent blindness from a negligent accident is a catastrophic injury, and Georgia law allows recovery across the full range of resulting losses: medical and adaptive costs, lost earning capacity, and...
Paraplegia and quadriplegia claims are both catastrophic, but they generally carry different values in Georgia because quadriplegia, which affects all four limbs, usually demands far more extensive lifetime care than...
The cost of attendant and in-home nursing care over a lifetime is a recoverable element of damages in Georgia when the injury makes that care reasonably necessary. For someone left...
Receiving a large injury recovery can paradoxically threaten the very benefits a seriously injured person depends on. Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are need-based programs with strict limits on...