Georgia · Auto accident law
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A Georgia hospital, nursing home, physician practice, chiropractic practice, or traumatic burn care practice can claim a lien on your injury claim for its reasonable charges, but only if it...
Read the full guideGeorgia's hands-free law, O.C.G.A. § 40-6-241, bars drivers from physically holding or supporting a phone or similar device, and from writing, sending, or reading text-based communications,…
A Georgia judgment against an at-fault driver is paid first by the driver's liability insurer, up to its limits; anything above that is the driver's own…
A Georgia car accident lawsuit starts when the complaint is filed in the right court and county before the deadline, and it moves forward only after…
In a Georgia car accident lawsuit, the injured person must prove the claim by a preponderance of the evidence, which means the jury finds it more…
A drunk or drugged driver who causes a Georgia crash is liable for the injuries like any negligent driver, and impairment adds three things a sober…
An injury whose symptoms show up days or weeks after a Georgia crash can still be part of the claim, but two things make it harder.…
A first-party claim is one you make against your own insurer under your own policy, such as collision, medical payments, or uninsured motorist coverage. A third-party…
A Georgia car accident settlement is a negotiated price for giving up the risk of trial. It is driven by what each side expects a jury…
Money received for physical injuries in a car accident is excluded from federal income, and Georgia starts its income tax from the federal figure, so it…
Georgia reduces an injured person's damages by that person's own percentage of fault and bars recovery entirely at 50 percent. Under O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33(g), the plaintiff…
In a Georgia crash involving several vehicles, the jury assigns a percentage of fault to every person who contributed, including people not in the lawsuit when…
The mistakes that are hardest to undo in a Georgia car accident claim are the ones the law treats as final or the evidence cannot recover…
A free consultation is a meeting in which a lawyer learns enough about your crash to say whether and how the firm would take the case,…
A location's crash history matters in a Georgia claim in two ways. Against the drivers, it does not change the rules: each driver still had to…
When a defect in a vehicle or part causes or worsens a Georgia crash, the manufacturer can be liable under O.C.G.A. § 51-1-11 without proof of…
A Georgia motorcycle crash claim follows the same negligence and comparative fault rules as a car crash, with motorcycle-specific statutes on both sides. One protects the…
To prove negligence in a Georgia car accident case, the injured person shows that the other driver owed a duty of ordinary care, breached it, and…
For injuries from crashes on or after April 21, 2025, Georgia limits recoverable medical expenses to "the reasonable value of medically necessary care, treatment, or services",…
In a negligence case, Georgia allows recovery for emotional distress under its "impact rule": the person must have suffered a physical impact, the impact must have…
"Bad faith" in a Georgia car accident claim is four different remedies, and which one applies depends on whose insurer acted and what kind of loss…
Outside the exceptions in the statute, punitive damages in Georgia tort cases, including car accident cases, are capped at $250,000 under O.C.G.A. § 51-12-5.1(g). There is…
A defendant in a Georgia car accident case answers the claim in one of four ways: the defendant was not negligent, the injured person was also…
Medical damages in a Georgia car accident case cover past treatment and the future care the injury will require, and the injured person must prove both:…
A Georgia car accident lawyer's work follows the legal steps of the claim: preserving evidence and meeting early deadlines, building the proof of fault and damages,…