Category Archives: Personal Injury
Former Camp Lejeune Residents Can Seek Damage For In Utero Exposure To Contaminated Water
This month, both houses of Congress passed the Honoring Our Pact Act, which enshrines the right of military veterans and their families to seek damages if they have suffered preventable illnesses because of exposure to harmful chemicals. The law includes provisions related to toxic fumes from burn pits, which have harmed the health of… Read More »
Veterans Harmed By Contaminated Camp Lejeune Waters Allege That The VA Unfairly Denied Their Claims
From 1953 until 1987, the levels of several harmful chemicals were dangerously high at the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina. Testing in the 1980s revealed levels of chemicals such as benzene and the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene, perchloroethylene, and vinyl chloride (VC) that were up to 400 times what is considered… Read More »
Which Diseases Are Associated With The Contaminated Drinking Water At Camp Lejeune
In 1985, regulators closed down two wells at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina after health and safety testing showed that the water in these wells contained dangerous levels of contaminants such as vinyl chloride, benzene, trichloroethylene (TCE), and perchloroethylene (PCE). These wells supplied drinking water for service members stationed at… Read More »
Is It Negligence If You Let A Teenager Drive A Golf Cart In South Carolina?
The next time you are stuck in traffic or a rude driver causes you to miss a green light and you feel road rage flooding into your bloodstream, think back to the wonder and exhilaration you felt when you first got behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Your first solo drive after getting… Read More »
South Carolina Court Awards $10 Million To Family Of Woman Whose Doctor Missed Opportunity To Diagnose Cancer
One of the scariest things a doctor can tell you is that they need to do more tests to diagnose or rule out cancer. It is a great relief when the test results come back and the doctor is sure that the tumor is benign, the image on an ultrasound or X-ray is not… Read More »
How Preventable Is Sepsis?
When you file a medical malpractice lawsuit, you must show the error by the doctor or hospital employee was a breach of the standard of care, which means that someone qualified to do the job would have made a different decision under the circumstances. In other words, you are not just trying to prove… Read More »
Who Is Liable When The Medicine Was Prescribed Correctly But Administered Incorrectly?
Medical malpractice lawsuits are about where the doctor or hospital where the patient suffered a bad outcome deviated from the standard of care, and therefore whether the adverse outcome was preventable. Since practicing medicine successfully requires making appropriate judgments amid constantly changing circumstances, and since the only people who can make the correct judgments… Read More »
Medical Malpractice Allegedly Contributed To Woman’s Death Four Days After Car Accident
Safer vehicle design and laws against dangerous driving behaviors have contributed to the decline in traffic fatalities over the past few decades, but so have advances in medical treatment. The prognosis has improved for many serious injuries, especially if patients receive prompt treatment. Receiving immediate medical attention and a correct diagnosis can make all… Read More »
Family Files Medical Malpractice Lawsuit After Woman Drowns While Being Transported To Psychiatric Hospital
When a patient is involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, it is because doctors have decided that the patient would be a danger to himself or others if allowed to leave the hospital before his condition stabilizes. South Carolina case law is full of medical malpractice lawsuits where families allege that releasing the patient,… Read More »
Is It Medical Malpractice When The Emergency Room Gives You Ambiguous Instructions?
If you are living with a serious, chronic illness, you often feel an instant connection to other people who have the same illness because of shared experiences that the most of the world doesn’t understand. You know about the triggers that make your symptoms worse and the generic and brand names of the medications… Read More »