Georgia

Time is not on your side after a Georgia accident. Statute of limitations is 2 years. This means you have 2 years to file a claim after your car wreck has occurred. Seeing a doctor who treats auto accidents is essential to your personal injury case. Our physicians in Georgia treat thousands of auto injuries a year.

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How your accident doctor will bill for your medical treatment

Georgia does not have pip or personal injury protection. Doctors in Georgia want the security of an attorney’s lien. So most, not all, want you to have an attorney before or shortly after seeing them for the first time. However, if you have Med Pay or PIP, the doctor will bill the auto insurance company directly. If you don’t have either, he will bill on an attorney’s lien. We do not have any doctors listed to our knowledge in Georgia that will bill on a medical lien, or bill third party at fault auto insurance.

• Attorneys liens
• PIP
• Med pay

This is how most doctors in GA wills see you after an auto accident. Third party billing is done for pip and med pay only. They will not bill the at fault party’s insurance company. As for attorney liens, it will depend on the particular attorney if the doctor will take you on as a new injury patient. Some attorneys in GA do not have the best reputation for paying the doctor.

They also may and try to reduce the bill so much, that its not even worth the doctors time to see any more patients from that particular attorney. Be very careful when you select a personal injury attorney. Some may make it hard for you to receive adequate treatment for the injuries you have sustained.

You need to make sure you have the right doctor and attorney working for you, on your personal injury case.

Minimum GA Auto insurance

• $25,000 of bodily injury liability for one person in one accident
• $50,000 bodily injury liability for all persons injured in one accident
• $25,000 property damage liability for one accident.

Georgia fatality statistics (2017)

• Traffic Fatalities 1517
• Fatalities per million miles 1.27
• Occupant Fatalities-1057
• Alcohol Impaired Fatalities-366
• Speeding related deaths-248
• Motorcyclist Deaths-139
• Driver involved in Fatality accidents-2283
• Pedestrian Fatalities-253
• Seat Belt usage-97.1%

After a steady decline, Georgia’s Traffic fatalities increased dramatically in the past two years. Georgia had 1554 fatalities in 2016. 368 where killed by impaired driving such as DUI or drugs (prescription and illegal) Unrestrained or people not wearing their seatbelts was 476 killed. People who were killed because of speeding or speed played a factor was 266. There were 385,221 accidents in 2015 in Georgia. Serious injuries resulting from these accidents was 19,405.

The accident data does skip around a bit because of the sources.

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