A front page story in the Sunday, May 24, 2009 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution details the struggle of five catastrophically injured Atlanta police officers to obtain needed medical help from the City of Atlanta's workers' compensation office. Each of these police officers was injured in the line of duty – with injuries ranging from brain damage to paralysis arising from gunshot wounds to the spinal cord.
Yesterday, I settled a very intense closed head injury case for almost $200,000. In looking back over this case, it strikes me that there are several important lessons here for anyone pursuing Georgia workers' comp benefits.
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