Log trucks hauling tree-length loads of pulp wood to paper and fiberboard mills extending far beyond a trailer’s end present nasty hazards on rural Georgia’s highways. Drivers approaching log trucks from the rear or side on dark roads are at risk of being impaled or beheaded. Extensive experience has taught…
A family member was killed or catastrophically injured in a crash with a big truck. These accidents often cause death or serious brain, burn, amputation, and back injuries. It is your responsibility to decide how to proceed. What should you do? What should you do after a serious crash with a large commercial truck? Act quickly…
Over decades of representing victims of catastrophic truck crashes and their families, we often have seen fly-by-night truckers hired by larger entities that knew or should have known of the dubious safety records of the truckers they hired. Sometimes we have been able to assert claims against the larger companies…
Since 1981, forty years ago at the beginning of the Reagan Administration, minimum liability insurance required for large trucks in interstate commerce has remained unchanged at $750,000. Everything else has gotten more expensive in the past forty years. Nothing costs the same since then–not the truck, the repairs, the gas,…
Throughout history, epidemics have swept through populations. Waves of pandemic — bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox and influenza — have killed hundreds of millions of people. Now we face the COVID-19 pandemic. The effects of this epidemic, both medical and economic, could be historically devastating. For at least the next few…
You got a dreaded phone call that a loved one is being transported to a hospital, or worse, after being hit by a tractor trailer, semi, dump truck, or other large commercial vehicle. What do you do? First, you should be aware that the trucking company and its insurance company…
Log trucks crashes are distressingly common tragedies across rural Georgia, often causing death or terrible injuries. Most log trucks operating in the middle of Georgia operate exclusively intrastate, inside the state of Georgia, and do not cross state lines. They are governed by the Georgia Forest Product Trucking Rules, which…
Over decades representing individuals and families devastated by highway crashes with large trucks, one of the most poorly understood hazards we have seen is that of tractor trailers parked on the side of the road. Among the hazards presented by semi trucks parked in the emergency lane is decapitation of…
Lawyer Kenneth Shigley | Top Attorney Trucking Accident Ken Shigley is a 2019 recipient of the “Tradition of Excellence”Award from the State Bar of Georgia General Practice & Trial Section. Mr. Shigley has earned three national board certifications from the National Board of Trial Advocacy – in Civil Trial Law, Civil Practice Law and…
Strategy is essential in litigation. Among the most important strategic considerations is determining in which court a case may be litigated and tried. Most trucking crash cases involve an analysis of jurisdiction and venue questions. In Georgia state courts, cases must be filed in a county where a defendant is…