Monthly Archives: April 2023
Driving A Rental Car After A Car Accident
Car accidents that result in serious injuries are financially devastating, but collisions that do not involve severe injuries are not exactly cheap. If you come away from a car accident without injuries serious enough to require hospitalization, you are wise to count your blessings. Once the bills start to arrive, however, you will realize… Read More »
How To Tow A Boat Safely
South Carolina’s water recreation season is in full swing. Only a small fraction of the boat owners who take their boats out on South Carolina’s lakes and rivers or the parts of the Atlantic Ocean that border South Carolina own waterfront property. Many of them keep their boats in the garage or yard in… Read More »
South Carolina Lawmakers Propose Bill Requiring Drivers Convicted In Fatal DUI Accidents To Pay Child Support To Victims’ Children
In a personal injury lawsuit, an injured person asks the court to order the defendant to reimburse the injured plaintiff for medical bills and other financial losses the plaintiff incurred because of the accident that the defendant caused, including income that the plaintiff lost by not being able to work because of his or… Read More »
The Leading Causes Of Car Accidents In South Carolina
Everyone knows about the dangers of drunk driving and how alcohol played an outsized role in fatal traffic collisions and single vehicle crashes. Catastrophic accidents represent only a small share of all collisions, though. Every day, cars collide on the roads of South Carolina, although the number of collisions has steadily declined by a… Read More »
Driver Gets 15 Months In Prison For Horry County Collision That Killed Motorcyclist
Rear-end collisions are among the most common types of traffic accidents, but they are not the most likely to result in severe injuries. Even in cases where the rear driver was distracted and was late in applying the brakes, the vehicles involved usually are not traveling at high speed. Most rear-end collisions take place… Read More »
Who Is Legally Responsible When A Pedestrian Gets Hit By A Car In A Parking Lot?
When one vehicle strikes another, the structure of the vehicles offers protection, as do seatbelts and airbags. Therefore, it is often possible to avoid serious injury if the drivers are obeying the speed limit and if all of the occupants of the vehicles are wearing seatbelts and any children in the vehicles are in… Read More »
Was The Truck That Caused Your Accident Just Passing Through South Carolina?
One of the first things that lawyers learn in law school is that most of the laws that affect people’s daily lives are state laws. This is why lawyers who move to another state must pass that state’s bar exam; their knowledge of the law does not automatically transfer, since state laws vary so… Read More »
Two Motorcycles Collide, Resulting In Death And Injuries
Rear-end collisions are a common type of traffic accident, but they are not usually the most destructive to life and limb. Most of the time when one vehicle rear-ends another, it occurs at a red light or in heavy traffic on an urban street, which means that the vehicles are not traveling very fast. … Read More »