Atlanta Injury Lawyers Blog

Over the weekend, about 9,000 veterinarians from the country will assemble at the Georgia World Congress Center for the annual convention of the American Veterinarian Medical Association. The event kicked off on July 31st, and is expected to run through August 3rd. Atlanta will play host to thousands of animal experts from around the world, who will discuss animal welfare issues, including food safety, behavior modification, and advances in veterinary medicine. They're also expected to focus on dog bite prevention.

Earlier this month, an Atlanta woman suffered serious injuries in a dog bite attack involving pit bulls. She was merely walking down the street when the dogs jumped at her. The owner of the dogs has been cited for about 20 violations, including improper restraint, canine on public property, canine on private property, failure to display rabies and vaccination tags, and failure to provide adequate water and shelter. The owner of the dog had been out of town, and a friend had been caring for the animals.

With some of the best animal and dog experts around the country gathering in Atlanta over the next couple of days, I would seriously like these vets to bring more attention to the problem of dog bites in Georgia. There's definitely a need for greater awareness, especially when it comes to the care of certain breeds, like pit bulls. I notice that too many people jump at the chance to rear these animals. However, very few possess the resources and the skills necessary to train these dogs.

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Brain injuries are some of the most catastrophic injuries, and usually occur in traffic accidents, or as a result of falls. There may be other causes like violence and workplace accidents. These injuries are, unfortunately, also some of the most difficult to diagnose.

Typically, a brain injury is diagnosed by checking the patient's vitals, and testing his thinking and memory. With such symptomatic testing, doctors often tend to misdiagnose a brain injury, or don't diagnose one at all. This can have serious consequences for patients, because late treatment can have a severe impact on a patient's chances of recovery.

However, there has been some progress in developing a blood test to determine the presence of biomarkers that can confirm brain injury. A Florida-based company called Banyan Biomarkers Inc., is conducting a series of studies into brain injury biomarkers. When a person is injured, the process of damage to the brain can be spread out over a few days, and over a period of time, there may be a number of proteins produced in the blood. The presence of these proteins, or biomarkers, can indicate that there has been a brain injury. Blood tests will focus on detecting these proteins, thereby making it much simpler, quicker and easier to diagnose and injury.

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An Atlanta area bar has agreed to pay the surviving widow of a man killed by a drunken driver $1M to settle her claims. The bar's liability stems from the bar's staff over-serving the drunken patron, when they should have known that he was highly intoxicated and likely to drive home from the bar.

The vast majority of the Atlanta Dental Malpractice cases that we litigate involve damage to the Lingual Nerve or the Inferior Alveolar Nerve (or both). Recent studies have identified factors that contribute to the incident of nerve damage. Most are secondary to a dental procedure such as installing dental implants (when the nerve is crushed due to the implant being installed too deep) or oral surgery (when the nerve is ripped or severed during wisdom tooth extraction).

The factors identified as substantially increasing the risk of lingual nerve damage are: increased age of the patient undergoing the dental procedure; un-erupted wisdom tooth extraction; raising the lingual flap; and lingual split technique (splitting the bone to remove the tooth).

The factors identified as substantially increasing the risk of Inferior Alveolar Nerve damage are: the depth of impact; the difficulty of the surgery; and radiographic signs that the wisdom tooth root is lying in close proximity to the Inferior Alveolar Nerve or, similarly, that the nerve has grown into and created a groove into the wisdom tooth root.

When any of the above factors are present, there is much greater risk of injury and permanent dental nerve damage.

As an Atlanta dental malpractice lawyer who frequently meets with patients suffering from these injuries, I know how important it is to properly evaluate patients before oral surgeons extract teeth or install dental implants.

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As an Atlanta car accident lawyer, I find it surprising that so many people are unaware of the symptoms of brain injuries, considering the seriousness of these. A brain injury does not have to involve a person blacked out for hours, or bleeding from the head and nose. In fact, symptoms of brain injury can vary, depending on whether it's a mild, moderate or severe TBI.

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The driver of the truck that was involved in a fatal Atlanta accident last week, has been arrested and charged. The driver of the truck, Joseph Gordon was driving his tractor trailer on Interstate 285, when his vehicle crossed the fog line, and hit a minivan parked in the emergency lane. In the minivan was a 44-year-old woman, who had stopped her car in the emergency lane to make a call. She sustained fatal injuries. Golden has now been arrested and charged in her death.

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"Do I need a lawyer?" This is a common question many people ask after being seriously injured in a car wreck or other personal injury accident. In order to properly answer this question, I think it is helpful for an injured person who is wondering whether they need to hire an experienced Georgia injury lawyer to read the following actual post which recently appeared on a Georgia Personal Injury Lawyer listserve:

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A potential client has $22,000 in medical expenes and needs surgery, but she just signed and faxed off a General Release to the other driver's insurance company today for $25,000 policy limit on her own and she now wants to hire me to puruse the $100,000 in remaining available Georgia Uninsured Motorist Coverage Insurance.

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An Atlanta area woman was brutally attacked by three pit bulls in Douglas County earlier this week while taking her morning walk on a public sidewalk. Although the dogs’ owner was out of the state at the time his three dogs attacked, Douglas County’s Solicitor-General has cited him with 20 misdemeanor charges. The Solicitor General is contemplating whether to also charge the caretaker, whom the owner claimed was in charge of the dogs while he was away.

Dogs display three types of aggression: prey, pack, and defense. When dogs are in packs, especially if not adequately socialized when they are young, they can become aggressive towards people, whether provoked or not. The “pack-mentality” is simply the social attitude of dogs and how they fit in the group, but carries with it the danger that one member of the pack may become aggressive simply because of actions by other dogs in the pack. Perhaps as this incident shows, the three dogs could quickly have been led to jointly act aggressive because of an act of the other.

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This summer, thousands of parents across Atlanta will be faced with the all-important question -what kind of car to buy their teenager who has just got a driving license. New Jersey personal injury attorney Scott Grossman has a few tips on buying a first car for your child.

In April this year, Consumer Reports brought out its list of the best cars for teen motorists. If you’re a parent looking for a choice of car for your child, this list would be a good place to start.

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