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On October 12, a man died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, and four other people were transported to the hospital with injuries. According to the Cobb County Police Department, the incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m. Authorities have not released the cause of the fall.

According to witnesses, the rider struck the coaster cars several times during the fall, and the moment was captured in a souvenir photo. The ride stopped on an incline, and park staff evacuated the remaining riders four at a time.

Six Flags has stated it is cooperating with authorities and ...

In August 2026, the Supreme Court of Georgia issued a decision affecting how Savannah property owners defend injury claims on land open to the public. The case centers on the Georgia Recreational Property Act, a statute that can shield owners from liability. For anyone hurt on public property, the ruling changes how courts decide whether that shield applies.

The lawsuit, McLamb v. Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, involved a visitor injured on a city-owned sidewalk in the National Historic Landmark District. The City argued it owed her no duty of care because she was sightseeing, an activity the Act ...

A property owner is not automatically responsible just because a crime happened on their property. Georgia law requires proving the owner knew, or reasonably should have known, that criminal activity was likely and failed to take reasonable steps to prevent it. This standard, called foreseeability, sits at the center of nearly every negligent security case, and it is the single most contested element in most of these disputes, particularly when the property owner denies any awareness of prior danger.

Prior similar crimes on the same property, or in the ...

When a violent crime on someone else’s property ends in death, the property owner is not automatically responsible simply because the crime happened there. Georgia law creates liability in these cases only when the property owner knew, or reasonably should have known, about a risk of criminal activity and failed to take reasonable steps to address it. Proving that knowledge, and the failure to act on it, is where these cases are won or lost.

Georgia premises liability law, grounded in O.C.G.A. Section 51-3-1, requires property owners and ...

A 6-year-old McGarity Elementary School student died this week after being found unresponsive in a pool during a class field trip to Carlton Farms in Rockmart, Georgia. According to Polk County officials, a staff member on the trip realized the child was missing around noon, and she was later located in a pool beside a nearby residence. Bystanders began life-saving measures right away, and she was taken to a local hospital, where she died a short time later. Cases like this are part of why families across the state often reach out to an Atlanta, GA premises liability lawyer ...

Georgia law defines elder abuse broadly to include physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation, and neglect, covering both intentional harm and a caregiver’s failure to actually provide necessary care. An Atlanta elder abuse lawyer evaluating a potential case examines which specific category of abuse actually applies, since this distinction can genuinely shape both the legal theory and the evidence needed to pursue a claim.

Many families genuinely assume elder abuse only means physical harm, only to discover Georgia law actually recognizes financial exploitation and simple neglect as equally serious forms of actionable abuse.

Georgia law recognizes that institutions entrusted with children, including schools, daycares, and youth organizations, owe those children a genuine duty of care that goes beyond simply providing supervision. Understanding this framework matters considerably for families in Atlanta who have lost a child due to institutional negligence.

Many grieving families genuinely assume responsibility for a tragedy rests only with the individual who directly caused the harm, only to discover Georgia law actually allows a claim against the institution itself when its own failures contributed to what happened.

Under O.C.G.A. § 51-4-2, eligible family members can pursue ...

A hysterectomy scheduled as a same-day procedure kept one metro Atlanta woman in an intensive care unit for close to three months. Her lawsuit against the hospital and the treating physician touches on problems that many Georgia families run into after being seriously harmed inside a medical facility. Understanding how those claims get evaluated can help you decide what to do next.

Star Button had lived with pain and heavy bleeding for years, caused by fibroids. She chose a robotic hysterectomy and expected to recover at home. Instead she spent days in a coma and nearly three months in the ...

Under Florida Statute Section 768.18, eligible survivors in a wrongful death case include the decedent’s spouse, children, parents, and certain blood relatives or adoptive siblings who depended on the decedent for support when no closer survivors exist. The statute defines “minor children” as anyone under 25 at the time of death, a broader definition than Florida’s general age of majority.

Notably excluded from this definition are grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, stepchildren who were never legally adopted, and unmarried domestic partners, regardless of how close those particular relationships were in practice before the death occurred.

A Port St. Lucie wrongful ...

Under O.C.G.A. Section 51-4-2, the surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, the surviving children, may recover the “full value of the life of the decedent, as shown by the evidence.” This standard covers both economic contributions like lost income and the intangible value of a person’s life, including guidance, companionship, and the relationship the family has lost.

Georgia courts have described this intangible component as reflecting what the decedent’s life genuinely meant to them personally, separate entirely from what that life meant financially to the surviving family members left behind after the loss.

An ...