Personal Injury Blog

Americans are becoming increasingly aware of police brutality. An article from Mic shows that in 98 percent of these cases, the officer is not ultimately charged with a crime. Excessive force can entail different things. It ultimately comes down to...

In a lawsuit that may be a first, adoptive parents were awarded $440,000 because their child had actually been born with the genitalia for both males and females, and South Carolina authorities arbitrarily decided to remove the male genitals and...

You can’t stop something from occurring if you don’t know why it happens in the first place. That’s why it’s so important for commercial truck drivers to understand how trucking accidents happen. While some aren’t preventable, many are — as...

When you go to any physician, you expect a certain level of care so you may get well in peace. In fact, by law, physicians must perform at a professional level in accordance with their occupation. Unfortunately, not all caretakers...

You may not realize this, but you probably have an important accident investigation tool right in your pocket: your camera phone. These days, almost everyone has a cellphone with a camera, and that’s changing the game when it comes to...

For a long time now, patients have been told that modern anesthesia methods are safer than ever, with mortality rates falling drastically over the last 30 years to only around one anesthesia-related death out of every 200,000 to 300,000 patients....

July 4 has come and gone. If you are like many people, fireworks played some role in your celebrations. Perhaps you went to see a spectacular show or put on a display of your own. Hopefully, there were no injuries....

Truck accidents are common on the nation’s highways — but their capacity for devastation far outstrips that of an accident involving two ordinary-sized vehicles. One of the hardest things to sort out in any truck accident is liability. Even when...

Police officers are often lauded as heroes and protectors of their communities. In most cases, such characterizations are accurate, but in some, it could not be further from the truth. South Carolina has certainly seen this to be true. According...

The state of South Carolina’s laws regarding vehicle safety had a curious loophole: Mopeds were virtually unregulated. Think you might want to ride one without a helmet, even though decades of research have proven that helmets save lives? It was...