{"id":1716,"date":"2008-04-18T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/tribute_to_a_client\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:07:59","slug":"tribute-to-a-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our firm concluded a wrongful death case <\/a>this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became entangled in loose utility wires which completely obstructed a city sidewalk adjacent to Peachtree Road in Atlanta. The injuries this young man received in the accident cost him his life. Subsequent thereto, our firm filed a lawsuit against the City of Atlanta for negligent maintenance of the City\u2019s sidewalk and against two utility companies for their alleged involvement in failing to properly maintain the hazardous utility wires which obstructed the city sidewalk at the time of the incident. While the case was resolved by means of compromise, obviously, the pain from the incident still remains with the family because of the untimely and wrongful death of this young man. Notwithstanding this terrible tragedy to the family, however, as we have seen in other similar tragic cases, good can emerge from bad particularly where good people work together to accomplish common goals.
\nIn late March of this year, a pedestrian advocacy group in Atlanta by the name of PEDS (Pedestrians Educating Driver Safety) conducted a Scavenger Utility Wire Hunt in which volunteers were asked to spread out throughout Atlanta to look for detached wires or cables that might block or obstruct city sidewalks. Thirty-five volunteers participated in this event and pictures were taken of more than 225 sites where loose or detached wires or cables blocked sidewalks. Once these pictures were in hand, PEDS digitally sent them to the City\u2019s Department of Public Works and has asked for a meeting not only with them but also with representatives from the various utility companies that conduct business in Atlanta.
\nAs one of the victim\u2019s brothers stated to the press, \u201cIt\u2019s all about accountability. If we can get the utilities and the City to take a more proactive approach to finding and fixing these dangerous sites, [my brother] will not have died in vain.\u201d One person\u2019s unnecessary and preventable death is one too many. Hopefully, this joint effort by volunteers pursuing a common goal can bring about good and other potential victims spared the fate suffered by our client\u2019s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became entangled in loose utility wires which completely obstructed a city sidewalk adjacent to Peachtree Road in Atlanta. The injuries this young man received in the accident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"\nTRIBUTE TO A CLIENT — Trial Attorney Blog — April 18, 2008<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became — April 18, 2008\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT — Trial Attorney Blog — April 18, 2008\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became — April 18, 2008\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Finch McCranie, LLP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT — Trial Attorney Blog — April 18, 2008","description":"Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became — April 18, 2008","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT — Trial Attorney Blog — April 18, 2008","twitter_description":"Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became — April 18, 2008","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Finch McCranie, LLP","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/"},"author":{"name":"Finch McCranie, LLP","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4"},"headline":"TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT","datePublished":"2008-04-18T13:53:57+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-17T21:07:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/"},"wordCount":375,"keywords":["Personal Injury"],"articleSection":["Personal Injury & Wrongful Death"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/","name":"TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT — Trial Attorney Blog — April 18, 2008","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-04-18T13:53:57+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-17T21:07:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4"},"description":"Our firm concluded a wrongful death case this year on behalf of the family of a 40-year old man who was killed when a bicycle he was riding became — April 18, 2008","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/tribute-to-a-client\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TRIBUTE TO A CLIENT"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/","name":"Trial Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Georgia Trial Lawyers \u2014 Finch McCranie, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4","name":"Finch McCranie, LLP","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Finch McCranie, LLP"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33455,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/33455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}