Summary: Savannah GA Injury Lawyer & Accident Attorney
Savannah Accident Attorney helping client hurt in car, truck, and auto wrecks and accidents.
A typical injury case in Liberty County GA Explained Motor
accidents, the area in which the majority of injury actions arise,
is a good example of how the legal system functions. You have a
negligence claim in a "fault" state if you are injured by a driver
who failed to exercise reasonable care, because drivers must
exercise reasonable care everytime they are on the road. If they
violate the duty and causes your injury, wrongful death law says
you can recover your losses. Negligence is much more than claims
arising from motor accidents. It forms the basis for liability
in...
Date Published: Jan 06, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Savannah Georgia land owner injury attorney Savannah Georgia and
the Liability of property owners For the owner to be liable for the
injuries you suffered from slipping or tripping and falling on
someone elses property, one of the following should be true: • The
owner of the premises or an employee should have caused the spill,
worn or torn spot, or other slippery or dangerous surface or item
to be underfoot. • The owner of the premises or an employee should
have known of the dangerous surface but did not take necessary
action. • The owner of the premises or...
Date Published: Jan 04, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Chatham County Georgia property owner injury law firm Liability of
property owners in Richmond Hill GA Landowners, especially those
inviting the public onto their premises, have a duty under the law
to use reasonable care to remove or repair slippery surfaces.
Landlords generally have an obligation to repair common areas in
apartment complexes. Keep in mind that merely because the landlord
has a duty to repair the slippery surface, you as a resident can
not ignore your own responsibility to use caution. The landlords
efforts must only be reasonable in the circumstances but not
necessarily perfect. Therefore plowing, shoveling and...
Date Published: Jan 03, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Richmond Hill Georgia personal injury attorney Personal Injury
cases in Richmond Hill Georgia Personal injury means any physical
or mental injury suffered by a person that is the result of another
peronss negligence or wrongful act or behavior. There are many
issues in deciding how much a personal injury claim is worth. It is
tough to give an exact dollar amount on injuries you may have
suffered, but do not lose sleep over this. Your lawyer will develop
your claim so that the you are compensated for numerous damages,
like time lost from work, medical bills, future medical
compensation for...
Date Published: Jan 02, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Chatham County Georgia Motorcycle accident attorney Causes of
motorcycle accidents in Liberty County GA There are three typical
reasons for motorcycle related cases that every rider should be
aware of. 1. Driver Negligence Talk to a motorcycle rider and they
will inform you that they always feel that they are invisible to
other drivers. You may even see bumper stickers that say "Watch For
Motorcycles". There are more chances of motorists seeing other
cars, trucks and vans than motorcycles. This leads to several
negligence related auto accidents. 2. Land Owner Negligence Driver
negligence isnt the only type of negligence for...
Date Published: Jan 01, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Savannah GA Preemption product liability injury attorney Savannah
Georgia accident lawyer One of the most controversial and well
litigated issues in U.S. product liability law is the preemption
defense. Preemption is the defensive claim that a federal
regulation under which product safety standards are established
prempts any conflicting state law on the subject, even state common
law tort principles. Unless preemption applies, compliance with
governmental standards will not bar a common law product liability
claim but is relevant evidence that a jury may consider when
determining liability. Preemption has become a more common
liability protection for drug companies since the...
Date Published: Dec 31, 2009 - 10:00 pm
Liberty County GA class action injury attorneys Savannah truck
accident lawyer Majority of the high-profile product liability
lawsuits in U.S. courts are brought as class actions, from tobacco
and asbestos to pacemakers and diet drugs. What began as a
procedure for aggregating multiple claims in complex civil
litigation has evolved into an immensely compex and unwieldy form
of litigation, in which an attorney actively offers representation
to a class of consumers who have allegedly been harmed by a
product, files a case on behalf of the class, and if the case is
successful, the individual class members receive a very...
Date Published: Dec 30, 2009 - 10:00 pm
Savannah GA product recall lawyer Failures to warn claim Savannah
Georgia medical malpractice attorney A drug without any
manufacturing and design defects may still give rise to a
successful lawsuit if the patient was not properly informed of
potential adverse events and other risks due to the use of the
drug. The nature of instruction and warning claims has been a
complex and continually evolving area of product liability law over
the past few years. Drug manufacturers generally rely on the
“learned intermediary” defense, which protects the manufacturer
when it properly warns or informs the physician who prescribes the
drug....
Date Published: Dec 29, 2009 - 10:00 pm
Savannah GA product injury voluntary product recall lawyers
Savannah Georgia Slip & fall lawyer Voluntary Product Recall
Certain factors must also be analyzed in deciding whether a
manufacturer acted reasonably in conducting a voluntary recall. The
analysis must include but not be limited to the examination of
factors such as: (1) the kind of the injury that may result from
use without notice, (2) the likelihood that injury will occur –
Will future continuing use of the product cause a substantial risk
of serious harm that can be lessened if a post-sale warning is
given, (3) how many persons are...
Date Published: Dec 28, 2009 - 10:00 pm
Chatham County Georgia product liability post resale lawyer
Savannah truck accident attorney Irrespective of if or not there is
a recognized independent cause of action for negligent voluntary
recall, as a general principle of law, when a manufacturer
discovers a life threatening hazard in a product, the manufacturer
has a post-sale duty to warn end-users of the product of the
hazard. Thus even though a manufacturer may not have an affirmative
duty to conduct a voluntary recall, the same duty is effectively
imposed upon it due to its post-sale duty to warn. If, in fact, a
cause of action for...
Date Published: Dec 27, 2009 - 10:00 pm