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South Carolina Off-Road Vehicle Laws And Safety Tips

By The Stanley Law Group |

If you are looking for adventure on South Carolina’s highways, city streets, and rural roads, your best bet is a motorcycle.  For an even more rugged riding experience, though, you have several other options.  Off-road vehicles, such as all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and utility task vehicles (UTVs) offer fun and thrills on unpaved roads and… Read More »

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Who Is Legally Responsible When A Pedestrian Gets Hit By A Car In A Parking Lot?

By The Stanley Law Group |

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 »

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Mesothelioma Surgery Can Give You A New Lease On Life

By The Stanley Law Group |

Despite all the gloom and doom you might read about the state of public health in the United States, the number of deaths from cancer has steadily decreased over the past several decades, as new treatments and screenings for early detection have become more effective and more widely available.  Long-term remission has become the… Read More »

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What Are Your Chances Of Winning Your Personal Injury Case?

By The Stanley Law Group |

Lawsuits are time-consuming and expensive, whether you are a plaintiff or a defendant.  If you have ever operated a small business, and a customer or former business partner sued you or credibly threatened to sue, it was probably one of the most stressful events of your life, perhaps to such an extent that it… Read More »

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What Do Tier I, Tier II, And Tier III Mean In Camp Lejeune Lawsuits?

By The Stanley Law Group |

Evidence is as important in civil lawsuits, including personal injury cases, as it is in criminal trials and investigations, but how the courts base their decisions on that evidence is different.  In criminal cases, the prosecution must convince 12 jurors of the defendant’s guilt, and the jurors must be very certain of it, or… Read More »

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Can You File A Camp Lejeune Lawsuit For Soft Tissue Cancer?

By The Stanley Law Group |

Families harmed by the water contamination at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina have been in pursuit of justice for decades.  From the 1950s until the 1980s, chemicals used to clean uniforms and equipment used at the base infiltrated the wells that provided the drinking water for Camp Lejeune residents; the wells… Read More »

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Can Camp Lejeune Veterans Get Compensation For Hepatic Steatosis Claims?

By The Stanley Law Group |

Your liver is one of the many parts of your body that you never think about unless it malfunctions.  In fact, if you have never had a serious liver disease, you probably only know the approximate location of your liver (somewhere in your upper abdomen) and can’t say for certain which organs are directly… Read More »

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Tetrachloroethylene And Drinking Water

By The Stanley Law Group |

Trichloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene (PCE), is a type of organic solvent known as a chlorocarbon.  Its industrial uses include cleaning automotive brakes, and especially the dry cleaning of clothing and household linens.  Therefore, when journalists refer to dry cleaning fluid or dry-cleaning chemicals but do not specify which ones, they are usually referring… Read More »

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Trichloroethylene And Drinking Water Contamination

By The Stanley Law Group |

The federal government recently enacted the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which expands protections for people who were harmed by the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the drinking water at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina between the 1950s and the 1980s.  One of these VOCs is trichloroethylene (TCE), a solvent… Read More »

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Living With Mesothelioma Is Exhausting, But It Doesn’t Have To Be Financially Catastrophic

By The Stanley Law Group |

One of the reasons that only a small fraction of the people who could make a strong case for being awarded damages in a personal injury lawsuit actually file lawsuits is that the injured people feel overwhelmed.  Preparing for a legal battle is stressful enough when you are physically healthy; it is even worse… Read More »

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