Shortly after a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stating that the number of children suffering serious head injuries has jumped 62 percent over the last 10 years, there is more news on the student-athlete brain injury front. According to Alabama Live, Timothy Robinson, the Alabama high school football player who suffered a traumatic brain injury making a tackle in 2009, has reached a settlement with the manufacturer of the helmet he was wearing. Robinson was...
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Workers injured in a construction accident in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens have settled with project contractors for more than $15 million. The accident occurred when workers were pouring concrete for an elevated canopy walkway through the treetops when it collapsed, dropping workers four stories to the ground. According to Forbes, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of one worker who died in the collapse and fifteen who were injured in...
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In light of National Teen Driver Safety Week, North Atlanta high school students are participating in a number of activities conducted to promote safe driving practices, according to the Atlanta Northside Family & Parenting Examiner. Courtesy of the University of Georgia, SADD and other organizations, students can join in hands-on safety exercises, including the use of “drunk goggles,” and “driving”...
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A Georgia homeowners association is taking their case to the Georgia Supreme Court next year, appealing a ruling by the state Court of Appeals that it is liable for the death of one of its residents. The Landings, a posh Georgia residential neighborhood near Savannah, was the scene of a particularly grisly set of events when an 83-year old woman was eaten by an alligator. The woman’s family contends that the homeowners association is liable for the woman’s pain and suffering and her wrongful death under the assumption that they should have done a better job protecting residents...
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 The premature death of football player Ja’Quayvin Smalls has reportedly led to a wrongful death lawsuit against the athletic personnel at Western Carolina University, where he was a player and a student. A junior college transfer from Georgia Military College in Millidgeville, Georgia, Smalls passed away due to complications from an enlarged heart after participating in the first WCU voluntary workout in the summer of 2009. According to the Post and Courier,...
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that all commercial truckers should be banned from communicating via cell phone while driving. Fueled by a fiery Kentucky crash in 2010 that killed the truck driver and ten others, the advisory body joined a host of other parties in pushing for a total ban on cell phone (except in emergencies) use in commercial trucks. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had previously banned texting by commercial drivers in 2010, according to Read More

A student at the University of West Georgia (UWG) was reportedly killed on Saturday when his motorcycle struck the side of a car that had improperly turned. Twenty-year-old Matthew Benjamin Dyas was riding his motorcycle on Lovvorn Road outside the entrance to the UWG football stadium when a car driven by an reportedly intoxicated Gloria Faith Dupree turned left into the path of Dyas’ motorcycle, according to the Times-Georgian. The accident...
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Substandard care in nursing homes around the country has driven some families to turn to surveillance cameras to monitor the care of their loved ones. In addition to use by families to catch suspected abusers, surveillance cameras are also now being used by some law enforcement officials and facility managers. According to the Seattle Times, camera use has already been used by an Ohio man to catch nursing home workers abusing his mother, in a wrongful death lawsuit in New Jersey...
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