Bremen Georgia Personal Injury Law Blog
Fatal tractor trailer crash results in $280M jury award
A Georgia jury awarded $280 million to the surviving husband of a 58-year-old woman killed in a crash involving a tractor trailer. The verdict is one of the largest for a wrongful death claim in the Peach State, as reported by the CBS-affiliated television station...
What is workplace violence?
Georgia employees who get injured as a result of workplace violence may qualify for workers’ compensation. Often when you think of on-the-job injuries occupational violence may not come to mind. Nevertheless, acts of violence on the job are not unusual, so it helps to...
What to know about occupational contact dermatitis
According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as 13 million workers are possibly exposed to chemicals that can be absorbed by the skin and possibly cause occupational skin disease (OSD). In fact, OSDs make up the second most common variety of occupational...
The Social Security Administration is checking your social media
If you’re applying for Social Security disability benefits, you don’t want to leave open questions about whether you are truly disabled. In order to qualify for SSDI or SSI, you must have a physical or mental impairment that causes you to be completely disabled from...
Georgia couple receives $21.6 million in truck crash
Crashes involving semis and other large trucks are often serious and can be fatal. So, a couple who collided with a semi-truck in Dalton can count themselves as lucky to have survived with injuries. Nevertheless, the driver was severely injured to the point where he...
Workplace is more dangerous for women
The National Safety Council (NSC) has released a new analysis of injuries in the workplace from 2017. Unfortunately, the news was not good for women workers. One fact that stood out in the study was that there were several professions or work settings where women were...
How is the Hands-Free law working?
At the beginning of this July, Georgia's Hands-Free Law will have been in effect for a year. Lawmakers and law enforcement hoped that passing the law would decrease the rate of distracted driving across the state. And as we draw near the first anniversary of the law,...
Working outdoors in high temps? What you need to know about occupational heat exposure
Several cities in Georgia saw record-setting high temperatures for May over Memorial Day Weekend, according to reports by The Weather Channel. For those who work outside, such high temperatures represent a serious risk of workplace illness. Employers in construction,...
Workplace often more dangerous for women
Most understand that a safer workplace means fewer injuries and fewer days where the worker is unable to work. This leads to lower workers’ compensation claims, personal injury claims or other expenses. Therefore, many took notice when the National Safety Council...
Study: Rear-seat safety hasn’t kept pace with front-seat safety
Drivers and front-seat passengers have benefitted from a variety of safety technologies in the past few decades. Both front and side airbags are included in many models. Seatbelts have force limiters, which release slack as force increases, and crash tensioners, which...
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