Category Archives: Personal Injury
Golf Cart Accidents In South Carolina
In 49 out of 50 states, people associate golf carts with harmless fun. People who are seeking danger drive motorcycles, sports cars, or all terrain vehicles, but golf carts are a vehicle for enjoying life’s simple pleasures. Old men ride golf carts from one area of the golf course to another, and teens too… Read More »
Why Representing Yourself In A Personal Injury Lawsuit Is A Bad Idea
Parties in lawsuits, whether they are plaintiffs or defendants, have the right to represent themselves in litigation or to hire lawyers to represent them. When you act as a personal representative of an estate, file for bankruptcy protection, file or respond to a divorce petition, or attempt to modify a court-ordered parenting plan or… Read More »
Chronic Pain: A Common Point Of Disagreement In Personal Injury Cases
Pain is hard to measure, and hard to ignore. Diagnostic tests can show you the concentration of myriad types of molecules in your blood and can visualize bones and other internal tissues of the body in considerable detail, but they cannot show pain signals transmitted to and from nerves. Your words and actions can… Read More »
What Does A Personal Injury Lawyer’s Workday Look Like?
News stories about personal injury cases often focus on what goes on in the courtroom, such as the arguments that the lawyers presented at trial and the decision that the court issued. In other words, what the public finds out about is only the final scene in a long story. In fact, most cases… Read More »
South Carolina Off-Road Vehicle Laws And Safety Tips
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 »
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 »
Mesothelioma Surgery Can Give You A New Lease On Life
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 »
What Are Your Chances Of Winning Your Personal Injury Case?
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 »
What Do Tier I, Tier II, And Tier III Mean In Camp Lejeune Lawsuits?
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 »
Can You File A Camp Lejeune Lawsuit For Soft Tissue Cancer?
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 »