A standard personal auto policy is priced and written for personal use, and most contain a livery or commercial-use exclusion that removes coverage while the car is being used to...
A rideshare driver hurt in a crash with no passenger aboard can still recover, but the path runs through different coverage than a passenger would use. The driver's own remedy...
A missing inspection record can be a meaningful piece of a Georgia slip-and-fall claim. While the absence of paperwork does not win a case by itself, it bears directly on...
A passenger riding in an Uber when a third vehicle causes the wreck sits in a strong coverage position under Georgia law, because two separate pools of insurance can be...
Tripping on a bunched or torn entrance mat can support a Georgia premises-liability claim, because a defective or displaced mat is a hazard the store usually controls. Whether the store...
A pool owner in Georgia must keep the swimming area reasonably safe for the people invited to use it. The exact level of responsibility depends on why the guest is...
Georgia uses the totality-of-the-circumstances test to decide whether a third-party crime was reasonably foreseeable in a negligent security case. The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected any bright-line rule that would...
Equal knowledge of a hazard can defeat a Georgia slip-and-fall claim, because the entire theory of premises liability rests on the owner having superior knowledge of the danger. If the...
It can change the case significantly. Ice traced to a downspout, a clogged gutter, a misdirected drain, or other drainage feature is no longer pure weather. It is a condition...
The identity of the at-fault party reshapes a rideshare injury claim from the ground up, because it changes which policy is primary, which coverage tiers apply, and whether uninsured-motorist protection...