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Paisley Law's Property Damage Protocol Unless a person is catastrophically injured or disabled in a wreck, one of their primary concerns is their car and how to get it fixed or replaced. This makes sense – in most places in the US, you can't get anywhere without a car, let alone work, school, pi...

Submitted by Attormey James Paisley on 2/10/2023 We had a case recently where my client was invited over to a neighbor's house and walked up to their front fence gate. The neighbor's dogs on the other side of the fence jumped up and pushed open the gate, slamming it into my client's face causing...

What Are Your Recovery Rights If You're Injured by the Covid Shot? James Paisley 10/11/2022 I really don't like this question.The pandemic is over, right? So, why even bring this up? I really hate even mentioning Covid. I've avoided this question for a long while but enough people inquired an...

With 11.8 visitors each year, Lanier is Georgia's most popular lake. It's also the most deadly, with 58 boating fatalities and 145 drownings between 1999 and 2018, with 45 lake-related deaths from 2015 to 2018 alone. This data was collected by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and can b...

Bicycling Accidents in Georgia Bicycling accidents are oftentimes horrendously catastrophic, with cyclists frequently getting the short end of the stick. While the cyclist is shipped off in an ambulance, the driver on scene blames the accident on the cyclist. What makes these cases tough is the ...

How to Pay for Medical Treatment Until You Receive Your Settlement Funding Treatment or Surgery  I emphatically dislike using funding companies but unfortunately in some cases, they are an absolute necessity to get my clients the healthcare they deserve. Physical therapists, chiropractors, and ...

Understanding Health Insurance Claims in Personal Injury Cases Medical insurance is a huge value driver of an injury case. We have most client treatment run through their health insurance which has a huge net effect in driving costs down and providing bigger margins for our clients. How Health ...

Most business slip & fall claims are governed by O.C.G.A. §51-3-1 and §53-1-2. Georgia businesses or landowners (or those charged with managing the property) have a duty to keep the home reasonably safe. However,  their  liability will depend on  whether the injured person was invited to the prop...

Dog Bites and Liability in Georgia When you buy a pet, that animal becomes your responsibility. You love them like family, and the last thing you want is for them to lash out at another human being. Many variables can lead to a dog becoming aggressive: rescue animals who experienced abuse, tempe...

What is a Bad Faith Insurance Claim? Insurance companies have an “implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing” meaning that if the insurance company fails to deal fairly, then you have grounds for a bad faith insurance lawsuit. Insurance companies are held to a high standard because of A.) T...

Good cases are functions of damages and causation. Tort = Duty + Breach + Damages High Damages / Low Causation This is the typical scenario where liability is hard to pin on the Defendant but the damages are really high. We see these type cases in head-on accidents in car wrecks where both par...

What your lawyer should do to maximize recovery and minimize costs: Uncover everyone who might be at fault and find out what insurance coverage is available. Oftentimes clients are hurt bad enough to where their damages might exceed the insurance coverage available under the claim. This is wh...

Whether you are a passenger in an Uber or Lyft vehicle, or were hit by one of their drivers, there are small distinctions that can determine the value of a case and what we can recover for a client. If an injured person was hit by one of their drivers, sometimes it's not even clear if the case ev...

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Why Procrastinating Your Doctor's Visit May Impact Your Ability to Collect!

ATLANTA PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS PAISLEY LAW, LLC At any given moment, a medical emergency could happen resulting in thousands of dollars' worth of medical bills incurred. As unfortunate as it sounds, it is not an uncommon scenario in personal injury cases. Having health insurance is not only va...

Should I See My Injury Doctor During the Pandemic? Treatment or Hunker Down?   This is a tough one. The pandemic is real and you want to be responsible in protecting yourself and others but at the same time, you're in pain and you know you need rehabilitative and medical care for your injurie...

Hell Yes!!! We've got a settlement for our client, but the bad news is there's still work to be done. Our job as injury lawyers is to not only maximize that settlement or verdict number but also minimize what the client has to pay back out of the settlement to lien holders and medical providers. ...

I've heard too many horror stories of so-called injury law firms that will wreck a good case, never call their clients back, or just don't know what they're doing and let a good case can get destroyed. Most of the time, it's too late for me to intervene and fix it. If everyone asked us lawyers th...

ATLANTA PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS PAISLEY LAW, LLC We've had many cases against daycare facilities where the caregiver's negligence caused an injury to a helpless child, but sometimes the conduct is so depraved or grossly negligent that Georgia's punitive damages statute would apply. O.C.G.A. § 5...

EXPERIENCED WORKER'S COMPENSATION ATTORNEYS IN ATLANTA What is Workers' Compensation? – It's the money that covers you if you are hurt at work. It's a no fault administrative remedy to collect money for your injuries at work regardless of who was at fault. Even if you are at work and you did so...

EXPERIENCED PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEYS IN ATLANTA How does the client walk away with any money at all if the medical expenses exceed the insurance policy limits of the person that hurt you? Take this hypothetical: Bill is run over by Anna and his medical expenses are $95,000 for his hospital bil...

EXPERIENCED PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEYS IN ATLANTA Under federal law, no person under the age of 21 may haul commercial freight across state lines. While some states will grant commercial vehicle licenses to persons over the age of 18, this federal law reduces the risks of having a young, inexper...

EXPERIENCED PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEYS IN ATLANTA Commercial vehicles, in particular tractor trailer trucks, are becoming extremely technologically advanced. The trucking industry continues to spend millions of dollars on advanced crash avoidance systems as manufacturers, trucking companies and ...