Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Can More Than One Public Entity Be Responsible for Failing to Prevent an Accident?
If you are far enough along in your research on personal injury lawsuits, you may have encountered the term “premises liability,” which means that the owner of a property has a legal duty to keep the property in a safe condition in order to prevent accidents. If a visitor to the property gets injured… Read More »
Lexington Teen Killed and Six Others Injured in DUI Crash
One of the most nerve-wracking things about being the parent of a teenager is knowing that your teen will learn to drive and will ride in cars with his or her peers, who are also inexperienced drivers. Of course, the car that you are riding in is not the only risk on the road;… Read More »
Filing a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit After You Suffer a Preventable Allergic Reaction
If you have suffered a serious illness, your experience has probably caused you to learn a considerable amount about the subspecialty of medicine related to your diagnosis than you ever knew. For example, you might have learned a lot more about the immune system or the function of the pancreas than you ever found… Read More »
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Related to Adverse Drug Reactions
Any drug strong enough to have a beneficial effect can also have unpleasant side effects. Consider that, while over-the-counter cold medicine clears your sinuses and suppresses your cough, it also makes you drowsy. The effect is even more pronounced with prescription drugs that some patients must take on a long-term basis in order to… Read More »
Pedestrian Struck by Two Vehicles in Colleton County Hit and Run
When you get into a car accident, you have a legal obligation to remain at the scene until you are sure that no one was hurt or that any injured people receive medical attention. Leaving the scene of an accident with injuries or fatalities, also known as hit and run, is a felony and… Read More »
Premises Liability Lawsuits Against Mega-Corporations Are Not Always as Simple as They Seem
If you are considering filing a personal injury lawsuit and have already started researching, you may have read that personal injury lawsuits are easier when the defendant is a corporation than when the defendant is an individual. The reason for this is that, if you have been seriously injured, the money you are seeking… Read More »
If a Patient Slips and Falls at a Hospital, Is It Premises Liability or Medical Malpractice?
In all personal injury lawsuits, you are trying to prove negligence on the part of the person or business that caused your injuries or enabled a preventable accident to happen. Premises liability and medical malpractice are two specific categories of negligence. Premises liability is when a business owner knowingly allowed dangers conditions to persist,… Read More »
How Has the Pandemic Affected Traffic Accident Trends?
This spring, the streets were eerily quiet as large parts of the country were under stay-at-home orders. Some journalists even hypothesized that new habits that emerged in response to the pandemic might be the key to reducing carbon emissions. Less traffic means fewer traffic accidents, right? Not always. 2020 was the year in which… Read More »
Swansea Man Faces Felony Charges After Fatal DUI Crash
South Carolina has one of the highest rates of drunk driving in the United States. Only Montana and Wyoming have more DUI accidents per capita. Alcohol is a factor in almost a third of fatal car accidents in South Carolina, which is still alarming, even though the rate of traffic fatalities has decreased a… Read More »
Passenger Dies in Rear-End Collision in Gaston, Driver Charged With Hit and Run
After most car accidents, the first step is for the drivers to exchange insurance information; if anyone is injured, they then go immediately to the emergency room to be examined and treated. The bills you receive after an emergency room visit, including the unpleasant surprise that the doctor who treated you in the ER… Read More »