Legal Question in Personal Injury in Georgia
out of state defendant liable for auto accident
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My question is as follows:
a driver,who lives in Georgia, has a lawsuit filed against him for a motor vehicle accident in Florida. the claimant, who lives in Florida, filed a lawsuit stating this Georgia resident is the cause of the accident and caused some personal injury. Are there and Georgia laws that can protect is person from this lawsuit?
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Re: out of state defendant liable for auto accident
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Re: out of state defendant liable for auto accident
Yes, you can include medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering in your claim.
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Re: out of state defendant liable for auto accident
Every state has some form of long-arm jurisdiction statute and some form of nonresident motorist jurisdiction statute. If a person from state A drives in state B, and causes an accident and injury to a person in state B, then the injured person in state B can sue the nonresident motorist from state A in the courts of state B. The theory under nonresident motorist statutes is that by using the roads of the state you consent to jurisdiction of that state's courts if your operation of a vehicle in the state causes injury. If the law were otherwise, then a family driving to work, school or church in their own neighborhood could be run down by a trucker from the other side of the country, or from a foreign country, and have no recourse without going to the home state of the negligent party. That would not be right.
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