Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyers — Felicetti Law Firm, Georgia

Metro Atlanta is where the Southeast’s freight converges. Interstates 20, 75 and 85 meet inside the Perimeter, and the trucking industry’s annual bottleneck survey puts several Georgia interchanges among the worst in the country — the I-285 and I-85 North junction known as Spaghetti Junction chief among them. Heavy vehicles in dense stop-start traffic produce a particular kind of crash, and Georgia produces a lot of them.

Fifty Percent Is the Line in Georgia — and It Cuts the Other Way

Georgia bars recovery where the claimant’s fault is fifty percent or greater (O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33). Below that, damages are reduced proportionally.

That is a genuinely different rule from the one in Texas, Illinois or New Jersey, where a claimant at exactly fifty percent still recovers half. In Georgia, an even split means nothing. The line sits one percentage point lower, and it sits on the unfavourable side of a tied jury.

It is a small distinction with a large consequence, and it is why a Georgia case with a contested fault picture is worth investigating harder rather than settling early. A few points of apportionment decide whether there is a claim at all.

Two Years From the Date of the Crash

Georgia allows two years from the date of injury to bring a personal injury action (O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33). Wrongful death actions generally run two years from the date of death, and claims involving government entities carry separate, shorter ante litem notice requirements — six months for a municipality, twelve months for a county, and a distinct period for state agencies.

Those notice rules are strict and the correct recipient differs by entity. A claim against a MARTA vehicle, a county road crew and a city police cruiser are three different procedures.

Freight, the Perimeter and Preserving Evidence Early

Truck cases turn on records that are not kept indefinitely: driver logs, electronic control module data, dash and forward-facing camera footage, maintenance files, dispatch and telematics records. Carriers have retention schedules, and those schedules are measured in weeks and months.

The practical effect is that a Georgia truck case has a shorter real deadline than its legal one. Getting a preservation letter to the right carrier quickly is often worth more to the outcome than anything that happens in the following year.

The Norcross Office on River Exchange Drive

The office serves Gwinnett, Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Clayton and the surrounding counties, and the firm takes Georgia claims statewide. Work includes car accidents, 18-wheeler and freight collisions, motorcycle claims, pedestrian and cyclist injuries, rideshare crashes, premises and fall cases, construction site accidents, workers’ compensation and wrongful death.

Local Pages for Georgia Cities

Each of these goes into the roads, courts and trauma care in a particular part of the state:

• Atlanta
• Savannah
• Augusta
• Columbus
• Macon
• Valdosta

Free Atlanta Case Review

If fault is going to be argued about, the fifty percent line makes that argument worth taking seriously from the start. Call (800) 333-1988 at any hour or reach the firm online. No charge for the review, no fee unless there is a recovery.

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A general summary of Georgia law, not legal advice, and not the start of an attorney-client relationship. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Georgia matters are handled by attorneys licensed in Georgia.