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Over Correcting Likely Cause of School Bus Accident in Georgia

It's a situation in which you shouldn't trust your first instinct because it may be fatal.  Overcorrecting, or quickly snatching the steering wheel back in the direction of the road to get back on it when your vehicle goes onto the shoulder, is one of the leading causes of traffic fatalities in this country.

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Why I Like Lawyers

There is a moral belief that virtually every single person I've ever met says they think is true: "Human beings do bad things." Now, there is much debate as to why this is true.

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Train Safety

The Newnan Times Herald reported today on an incident that happened in Coweta County Georgia involving a train striking a car that was stopped at a red traffic signal at the intersection of Weldon Road and U.S. 29. The car was stopped past the railroad tracks waiting to turn onto U.S. 29. The location and design of that intersection is dangerous and, in fact, according to a recent study released by the Citizens for Rail Safety and the University of Kentucky, that crossing is the seventh-most accident prone in the nation.{http://www.citizensforrailsafety.org/in-the-news.php?id=74}

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Progressive Investigated by Georgia Insurance Commissioner

The Georgia insurance Commissioner, John Oxendine, is now involved in the latest Progressive Insurance Company's scandel over allegations of invasion of privacy, fraud and other misdeeds. Hopefully, this will help Progressive and other insurance companies remember that they have fiduciary duties towards thier own insured's, that is, a duty to place their insured's interests as highly as their own. We will see.

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Progressive Insurance Company Goes Way Too Far

The following article appeared in the August 22, 2007 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This outrage ranks near the top of the list as far as insurance company abuses go. This is a fine example of the lengths that insurance companies will go to avoid paying fair compenstion to victims of negligence. I certainly hope that justice is delivered to Progressive Insurance Company for this outrageous invasion of privacy.

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