Suing After a Commercial Boat Injury

People don't usually associate boating accidents with tour boats or ferries. The mental image is always some private vessel out on the water. But commercial boats carry passengers along Georgia's rivers and coastline every single day, and injuries happen more often than the industry would like to admit. When they...

Retaining a personal injury attorney sets a legal process in motion, one that involves documentation, decisions, and sustained participation from you as the client. Many people don't fully appreciate the weight of that participation until they are already mid-claim. Being prepared from the start changes that dynamic considerably. Your Attorney's...

Electric bicycles are everywhere now. In Atlanta's Midtown, on the Beltline, along the streets of Savannah and Augusta and Alpharetta, e-bikes have become one of the fastest-growing forms of transportation in Georgia. They are clean, affordable, and genuinely useful — and they are also involved in a growing number of...

It seems that unfortunately Georgia's SB 68 is not going anywhere. It has the support of the Governor, a legislative supermajority, and the state's most powerful business lobbies. Anyone who frames the conversation as "repeal vs. keep" is missing the point — and missing an opportunity. The more productive question...

On April 21, 2025, Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bills 68 and 69 into law, ushering in Georgia's most sweeping civil justice overhaul in a generation. The legislation was framed as a business-friendly corrective — a way to rein in what proponents called a culture of lawsuit abuse. But for...

Georgia's SB 68 is now law, and the courts have begun the long process of interpreting its provisions. The first two installments of this series documented what the reform accomplished and where it fell short. This final piece asks the harder question: what should come next? The goal is not...

Every law produces winners and losers, but the most revealing measure of a piece of legislation is often what happens to the people who were never mentioned in the debate. Georgia's SB 68 was crafted to solve a real problem — an out-of-control litigation environment that was driving up costs...

Georgia's legal landscape changed dramatically on April 21, 2025, when Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bills 68 and 69 into law — the most sweeping overhaul of the state's civil justice system in two decades. The legislation was sold, in large part, on a simple promise: reduce lawsuit abuse, and...

Burn injuries don't just heal and disappear. They leave scars that stay with you, sometimes for life. When someone else's negligence caused your burns, those scars matter in your personal injury claim. They matter a lot. How Georgia Courts Evaluate Burn Scars Proving your case means showing both the severity...

You rent a boat for the afternoon, and suddenly everything goes wrong. Maybe the steering failed. Maybe another renter crashed into you. Now you're dealing with injuries, and you need to know who's going to pay for this. Rental boat accidents don't fit into neat categories. Unlike crashes involving boats...