Georgia’s school children are sharing their buses with more than just their school mates, this report reveals. The presence of several types of toxins that can not only trigger asthma and other respiratory disorders, but also cause cancer is enough reason for parents to worry. . According to the report,…
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Student in Fatal Cobb County Drunk Driving Accident Intoxicated During Crash
The toxicology report of a Cobb County high school student who was killed in a car accident in January has confirmed that he had a blood alcohol level of .133 at the time of the crash. 16-year-old Garrett Reed was killed on January 24th in a collision with another car.…
Families Mark Second Anniversary of Bryan County Car Accident Deaths
March 21st marked two years since the car accident that killed three Bryan County high school students. Melissa and Heather Arthur and Laura Cobb were killed in an accident just two miles from their school. On the day of the accident, the three girls were passengers in a Chevrolet Cavalier…
Fulton County Boy Awarded $2.3 Million in Medical Malpractice Award for Botched Circumcision
There could be not a medical malpractice awardthatcould compensate this boy and his family for the unimaginable horror they have been made to suffer.While a Fulton County Jury has awarded them damages of $2.3 million for a circumcision procedure that went wrong, the boy and his family will need counseling…
Nursing homes Become Dumping Grounds for mentally ill, Increase Risk of Elder Abuse
The Associated Press has a shocking report about the manner in which spare beds at nursing homes around the country are being filled by mentally ill patients, thus exposing the facility’s elderly patients to assaults and abuse. Across the country, deplorable conditions at mental health institutions have been responsible for…
St. Patrick’s Day Drunk Driving Crackdown Means More DUI Arrests, Fewer Alcohol Related Car Accidents
Law enforcement officers in Georgia expect to be busier than usual during alcohol-heavy holidays like St. Patrick’s Day, cracking down on offenders and preventing drunk driving accidents. This year, was no different. In fact, it was a bumper harvest of sorts for police officers in downtown Athens who lodged a…
Calls for FDA to Split Grow Louder
Food and drug safety advocates and Georgia product liability attorneys have long called for a division of the Food and Drug Administration into separate agencies, each in charge of food and drug safety.These calls have gotten louder since the salmonella poisoning scandal earlier this year that’s been linked to contaminated…
Failure to Screen Bus Companies Places Athletes at Risk for Accidents
Back in 2007, a bus accident in Atlanta, involving a vehicle carrying baseball players of Bluffton University, Ohio killed seven people on board, including five players, the driver and his wife. That accident was blamed on driver error, as well as the failure of the Georgia Department of Transportation to…
Georgia House Rejects Bill That Could Prevent Accident Fatalities
In February, we had expressed hope on this blog that a bill to make seatbelt use mandatory for pickup truck drivers would be passed by the House. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. For the third consecutive year, the House has rejected the measurethat would prevent several accident related deaths every year,…
Georgia Governor Purdue’s Tort Reform Express Losing Steam?
It looks like Governor Sonny Purdue’s plans for tort reform in Georgia have hit the speed breakers sooner than he had anticipated.On March 10th, the senate approved a substantially tamer version of a bill that would have made plaintiffs pay in the case of a losing lawsuit. The original bill…