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I recently read an article in the FCDR dated Wednesday, August 2, 2023. The title of the article was “To Grow Your Business, have a master of business development strategies.”

The general rule under the laws of workers’ compensation is that if the employer was the owner of the parking lot and you are on the way in or out of the parking lot either before work or immediately after work if you have been injured the injury would be considered “in the course of and scope of your employment.

Georgia Governor, Brian Kemp, gave a speech last week to the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He wants tort reform. He wants insurance companies to make more profit.

On July 27 2023, a decision came out of the Court of Appeals titled City of Atlanta v. Sebastian. This was a workers’ compensation case where there were multiple doctors that treated the injured worker.

Georgia is one of only a handful of states that requires the employee, after sustaining a job injury, to use one of a list of doctors the employers provide for free treatment of the injuries.

There have been several articles published recently stating Georgia is a “judicial hellhole and a thermonuclear corporate verdict hotspot.” These comments resulted from millions of dollars in high jury verdicts in Georgia.

Assessed attorney fees in litigated workers’ compensation cases are extremely hard to obtain. A recent article in The Verdict, a Georgia Trial Lawyer magazine, addressed this issue

In a recent automobile settlement, attorneys for the three people who died in an automobile crash sued the employer of the negligent driver who caused the accident.

So, in this set of facts, is this a job injury? The Appellate Division of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation said NO, it was not an aggravation. Claim denied.

I just read a most interesting article that was on the front page of the Fulton County Daily Report dated August 22, 2022.