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Car Accidents

Traffic Related Accidents Increase in Georgia

After nine years of consistent reductions in the number of Georgians who are killed in motor vehicle crashes, fatalities increased a stunning 21 percent in 2015. 1,414 people were killed on the state’s roadways last

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Personal Injury

Can A Baseball Player Be A ‘Known Defect?’

Miami Marlins outfielder Delmon Young was arrested after he allegedly assaulted a parking attendant in the Magic City. Authorities state that the 30-year-old free agent grabbed the man’s neck and called him a “stupid Cuban”

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Multiple Million Dollar Settlements Awarded at Wade Law Offices
Personal Injury

‘The Dirty Dozen’

An advocacy group recently came up with a list of 12 cases which it claims pervert the principle of sovereign immunity from negligence lawsuits. Many of the cases in the so-called “dirty dozen” involved alleged

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Brain Injury

A Royal Headache

Some scholars believe that the erratic behavior of 16th century English monarch Henry VIII was caused by a brain injury he suffered earlier in life. In the 1520s, the king suffered a string of head

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Car Accidents

Poor Ms. Palsgraf: A Look at Negligence

A trip to the beach outside New York City wound up becoming one of the foundational cases in American negligence law. Facts Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company involved a woman, Helen Palsgraf, who was

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Car Accidents

Prison Sentence In Drunk Driving Case

A Cobb County man will have ample opportunity to reflect on the series of decisions that led to his involvement in an alcohol-fueled car crash that took the life of a popular author. 45-year-old Jeffrey

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Personal Injury

Off The Rails

A Maryland public school superintendent acknowledged that peers and scientists might believe that he is “damn nuts” for giving students chocolate milk to help them recover from a brain injury. Nevertheless, Clayton Wilcox plans to

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Personal Injury

‘The Great Mimicker’

A difficult-to-identify bacterial infection that kills 70 percent of its victims within 48 hours is spreading throughout the globe. Once confined to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, Melioidosis appears to be spreading to the Middle

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Personal Injury

The Color Of Money and Landlord Liability

For over a hundred years, the extent of landlord liability has largely depended on the color of the literal or metaphorical banana peel. Facts The 1911 case of Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway Company involved

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Dangerous Pursuits

A local burglary suspect is in custody following a reckless high-speed police chase that involved possible injury to his infant son and a female passenger. Investigators believe that Joe Malcom was involved in a December

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Crossing the Line and Assumption of Risk

Broadcaster “Boomer” Esiason called Cincinnati Bengals’ linebacker Vontaze Burfict a “danger” to other players on the field, further suggesting that the National Football League suspend him for an extended period of time after he caused

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