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Fallen Tree: Is Anyone Responsible For What Is Often An Act Of Nature?

Macon, Georgia is lush and green with its trees. Trees are majestic and beautiful, and they give life… but they also take it… Not intentionally. But more than 100 lives are taken annually throughout the U.S. due to trees. They do not kill when they stand tall, rather they become deadly when they fall, whether just a limb or the

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Five Year Old Boy Drowns at Camp: Who Is Liable for the Tragedy?

On July 21, 2017, a 5-year-old boy drowned. Deaths of children by drowning is not uncommon in the summer months of Georgia, but this boy didn’t drown in a swimming pool where well-over half of all drownings occur for children of his age and where his parents would have been responsible for his care. This 5-year-old drowned in a pond while he

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Atlanta Hospice Lawsuit Ends With $2.4 Million Settlement

Georgia hospices have been the site of several recent lawsuits involving hospice care. Georgia’s hospices have experienced lawsuits over billing issues for patients who were not terminally ill, claiming insurance payments on ineligible patients, claiming insurance payments on services that were ineligible, submitting false claims, and charging Medicare for patients who did not qualify. The latest settlement in these cases

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