Mar 2, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Personal Injury
Would you drive the length of a football field at 55 mph with your eyes closed? Well, texting while driving is about the same. When you send a text or dial a number on your phone, you are not paying attention to the road. Period. So, for the five seconds or more that...
Mar 1, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Personal Injury, Traffic Tickets
If you ask your friends to list their biggest highway pet peeves, slow driving in the left lane will probably be near the top. But it’s not just annoying and frustrating – slow driving in the left lane is illegal, and it’s dangerous. South Carolina...
Feb 21, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Insurance, Personal Injury
Insurance adjustors are trained to deny claims. When that doesn’t work, they fall back on other training – how to minimize a payout on a claim, how to talk you out of hiring an attorney, and how to bully you into accepting a settlement that doesn’t...
Feb 6, 2018 | Personal Injury
Early Sunday morning, there was a catastrophic Amtrak train crash in Cayce, SC that killed two Amtrak employees and injured over 100 passengers. Could this crash have been avoided? Is Amtrak liable to the injured passengers and their deceased employees? This was the...
Jan 25, 2018 | Auto Accidents, Personal Injury, Slip and Fall
When South Carolina schools and businesses close because of a winter storm, you can always count on comments from that guy who moved here from upstate New York: “Where I come from, we don’t close even when there’s three feet of snow on the...
Jan 24, 2018 | Personal Injury, Tort Reform
A federal judge earlier this month dismissed a lawsuit accusing Starbucks of cheating its customers by underfilling lattes. The California-based judge also took issue with the plaintiffs’ claim that milk foam should not be considered part of a latte or mocha,...