Locust Grove Attorney

If you live or work in Locust Grove, Georgia, then I would like to be your Auto Accident Lawyer when the time is needed or family law attorney.  We are a full service law office located in Jackson, Georgia, but we represent numberous clients in the area.

We can be your Locust Grove Lawyer and Locust Grove Divorce Attorney.

Many times marriages fall apart.  Sometimes they are torn apart.  As a Locust Grove divorce lawyer I understand what you are going through.  If you know how you want things divided and both of you agree, then we would be looking at an uncontested divorce.  Locust Grove uncontested divorces are the same as Henry County uncontested divorces.  Since Locust Grove is in Henry County, that is where we will file the Locust Grove divorce.

If you need  to find experienced Georgia personal injury law firms, then call your Locust Grove Personal Injury Lawyer or Henry County Personal Injury Lawyer today at 770-775-0938.

LOCUST GROVE, GEORGIA FACTS:

The city of Locust Grove is located in Henry County, Georgia.  Locust Grove got its name from a grove of locust trees in town. Locust Grove started off fairly small by stretching ¼ mile in every direction from the train depot.  The city has a cute downtown area with old shops and the classic railroad running along Highway 23/42.

The city even had a college, the Locust Grove Institute, which was one of the first schools in Georgia to be accredited by the Association of Schools and Colleges of the Southern States.  The school later closed.  The City of Locust Grove later purchased the building.  The building was restored for the various City Government offices which is now the Locust Grove Municipal Complex. Business and shopping also thrives with Locust Grove’s Tanger Outlet Mall and other industries in Henry County.

You can try to handle your own case, but don’t.  Do you know what your case is worth?  Is that not why you came to this website right now?  You are looking for information. I applaud that.  But, you would not want me doing your job.  Why?  You took time to develop your skills and ability.  It would take me time to get it down and even more time to be good at it.  The same goes with my job.  Let me be your Georgia car accident attorney, and do it well for you.  I regularly negotiate personal injury and car accident claims in my office.  I do them myself.  I do not have a paralegal handle your case, I do.  One call will not get you all, but that is just logical sense.  If I only negotiated once, and took their first offer, I would stink.  Plain and simple.  It takes time to get to a proper settlement.  Sometimes, it requires filing suit and proceeding with litigation.  Because I can do this, and you cannot, why would they ever make you a non-insulting offer.  You can’t do anything but complain.  I will sue.

If you need a Locust Grove Henry County Georgia Lawyer for divorce, family law, criminal law, or personal injury, call 770-775-0938 today.

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Here at Joseph P. McClelland, LLC, we work hard to bring quality resources to the situation.  If you need an attorney for a Locust Grove divorce, then contact our office.  If you need a Locust Grove attorney for a car accident or motorcycle accident, call us immediately.

Usually, these blog posts are about being a personal injury lawyer in Georgia, car accidents in Atlanta, Marietta, Decatur, McDonough, Macon, ect., but today is different.  I will write about something that is not about personal injury attorney ideas and laws.  A recent law related article got my attention and created the motivation to the write this article. As an Atlanta car injury lawyer, I know that courthouses are neutral places, and such behavior is an overt articulation of an imbalance of justice in that courtroom.

Terrible news for the racists.  The Adams County courthouse in Nebraska is removing a degrading photo of the President of United States of America, Barack Obama.  The photo is a black and white image of the president smoking a cigarette in his youth hung beside the current governor.  County Supervisor Eldon Orthmann is the racist who actually had the picture matted, framed, and put it on the wall.

They are now taking it down after someone complained enough to make them take it down.  The next question is how will his voters react?

When you need a Georgia tractor trailer accident lawyer for Atlanta, Marietta, McDonough or Jackson, you should contact an attorney right now.  There are laws in Georgia limiting the amount of time you have to file your lawsuit called statute of limitations.  There are also time limits dealing with notifying certain insurance companies to be able to recover full compensation from your Atlanta, Marietta, McDonough or Jackson personal injury lawsuit. You should chose a Georgia lawyer that has experience dealing with insurance companies on a daily basis.  If the accident was in Atlanta or McDonough, the Georgia laws are the same.  The same applies if the personal injury claim arose in Macon or Marietta or anywhere in Georgia.  Our law firm will represent you to our fullest to provide full compensation under the law for your injuries.

This article will describe why hit-and-run drivers calls problems and personal-injury cases, what to do in the circumstances and a current event example from South Atlanta.

Here is some recent news in Henry County from your McDonough Personal Injury Lawyer.  On Friday March 2010, a women was crossing Jonesboro road and was hit by a driver of a Black SUV.  The driver got out of the car and spoke to the injured pedestrian.  However, and contrary to Georgia Car Accident Laws, got back in her vehicle and took off.  One thing happen, though, the driver did not expect.   That is part of the accident was caught on the dashboard camera of a police officer.

The police officer describes the women driving the SUV as a white woman.  She is in her 20′s with blond hair.  Her hair is curly and goes to the shoulder.  Henry County police are still looking for the women who hit someone with her car.

The driver appears to be liable for any and all damages for the pedestrian.  The injured person can recover lost wages, pain and suffering, medical and hospital bills, and damages for future medical bills and suffering.  Also, in a situation like this, punitive damages might be available.

I hate hit-and-run drivers for several reasons.  First reason is that they cause an accident.  The second reason is because they left the scene of the accident without giving their information so that insurance claim can be filed.  The biggest reason I do not like hit-and-run drivers is because it makes it very difficult to complete a personal injury claim.

Hit and Run Claims and What to Do?

Since the driver cannot be found, it is impossible to file a claim against your insurance company.  Since we do not know who they are.  That leaves us in a very bad situation.  Our only alternative is to look to the insurance policy of the driver that was actually get in to see if there are any additional policies that might be applicable in this situation.

First of all, I would look for any medical payment insurance in your policy.  This would allow us to compensate medical professionals to give you treatment so that your injuries will eventually heal otherwise if you do not have insurance it will be extremely difficult to get you the proper medical treatment.

The next thing we would need to look for is the availability of any uninsured motorist coverage insurance.  This would allow us to file a claim with your own insurance company because the driver that hit you.  Since they cannot be found are technically uninsured.  In this situation we would treat the claim as any other claim in order to get you your maximum car accident settlement.  This is another example of why it is important to have both medical payment insurance and uninsured motorist coverage on your current automobile insurance policy.

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This is big news for claimants and personal injury lawyers in Georgia and Decatur accident victims.  The Georgia Supreme Court just ruled that the cap on noneconomic punitive damages are unconstitutional.

The Court held that the Constitution guarantees a right to a jury trial.  The concept is that what the jury determines is how we administer justice. (Back in the day, the plaintiff and defendant will have fight, and who won must have been right because, it was believed that the God’s hand would strike the fatal blow.)

The ruling was based on a medical malpractice case that returned a verdict of punitive damages in excess of the $250,000 punitive damages cap.  The case went through the court system to the Georgia Supreme Court.  The Court reasoned that if the legislature could come up the number $250,000, then why could they not come up with the number $1 or $10,000.  This was important to the Court that the jury make the determination.  The Court reasoned that ”the law clearly nullifies the jury’s findings of fact regarding damages and thereby undermines the jury’s basic function,” Chief Justice Hunstein wrote.

The fact that the law permits full recovery of noneconomic damages up to the “significant amount” of $350,000 is not sufficient to make it constitutional. If the Legislature may cap awards at $350,000, then it could also cap the recovery at some other figure, “perhaps $50,000, or $1,000, or even $1,” the court said.

“The very existence of the caps, in any amount, is violative of the right to trial by jury,” the decision states.

The other side failed to persuasively argue that allowing a judge to reduce a jury ward is substantially the same thing.  The Court disagreed, holding that the judge’s use is limited and  the “judicial remittitur is a carefully circumscribed power, the exercise of which is authorized only in the limited circumstance.”

The ruling is to be applied retroactively.  This is a huge thing for all claimants and plaintiff’s attorneys.

One question that often comes up with clients is the question about punitive damages in a wrongful death lawsuit.  The answer to the question it that they are not allowed.  It may seem unfair until you look deeper.  The Georgia Wrongful Death Act is punitive in nature already.  Therefore, having more is not necessary.  Check out the page on Georgia wrongful death lawsuits to learn more about that subject.

The Law Office of Joseph P. McClelland handles all types of personal injury cases such as car accidents, premises liability, worker’s compensation, intentional torts and general negligence. Contact my office at 770-775-0938.