All Topics

• Workers Compensation Approved for Illegal Immigrants

  Pat Jennings | January 02, 2008 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The Supreme Court of South Carolina recently handed down a ruling that the citizenship of injured workers should not influence their ability to recover for an on the job injury. The court found that illegal immigrants are entitled to the same benefits under the South Carolina Workers Compensation Code as every other worker in state. This decision came on the heels of a case involving an...

• Parents of Student Who Died After College Hazing Incident File Wrongful Death Suit

  Amy Rothschild | January 02, 2008 9:22 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The parents of a Rider University student who died after a suspected hazing incident in the Spring of 2007, filed a law suit againt the university claiming it didn't adequately supervise the fraternity house where excessive drinking occurred. The lawsuit also names Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and four members of the fraternity's now-defunct Rider chapter. Gary DeVercelly Jr. died in March 2007...

• Flight Students Settle Case Against Flight Instructor After Crash

  Amy Rothschild | December 18, 2007 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Two students filed a lawsuit against their flight instructor as a result of a 2004 plane crash near the Dubuque airport. Just prior to the crash, the pilot had tried to make an emergency landing in order to remove ice that was accumulating on the airplane and to assess the weather conditions. Fortunately, no one was killed as a result of the crash. All three men walked away with minor injuries....

• Trucking Company To Pay $9 Million For Wrongful Death Of Two Sisters

  Amy Rothschild | December 17, 2007 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Seven and two year old sisters died when the family car in which they were riding was rear-ended by concrete pumper truck. At the time of the accident, the truck was driving at an unsafe speed and was not able to stop in time to avoid hitting the family's vehicle, which had stopped to assist a disabled vehicle. The trucking company, Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping,will pay $9 million to the...

• Family Awarded $1.5 Million In Fraternity Hazing Death of Son

  Amy Rothschild | December 11, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  In 2003, a student who pledged Psi Epsilon Chi fraternity died of water intoxication at the hands of fourteen fraternity members during a hazing incident. Eleven of the students pleaded guilty to the death of the student. The family brought a claim for wrongful death against all fourteen members of the fraterinity including John Burnius, one of the convicted tormentors. The New York State...

• Jury Awards $3.4 Million To Man Injured Using Tool Gun Which Must Be Paid By Stanley Works and Home Depot

  Amy Rothschild | December 10, 2007 2:10 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  After 8 hours of deliberatations, a jury in Hartford Connecticut issued a jury verdict of $3.4 million to a construction worker who was seriously injured when a nail became embedded in his brain as he worked with a nail gun. The jury held that Stanley Works and Home Depot, which sold the nail gun, were partly for the worker's injury in 2003. The court held that the worker was 55% at fault,...

• Old Navy Voluntarily Recalls Performance Fleece-Lined Boys' Jackets Because of Waist Drawstring Toggle

  Amy Rothschild | December 03, 2007 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  In cooperation with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Old Navy LLC, of San Francisco, Calif., is voluntarily recalling about 17,200 Performance Fleece-Lined boys' jackets. The jackets have a waist drawstring with a toggle that could become snagged or caught in small spaces or doorways, which can pose an entrapment hazard to children. In February 1996, CPSC issued...

• New Research Study Links Avandia, a Diabetes Drug, to Osteoporosis

  Amy Rothschild | December 03, 2007 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  New research has found that the diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of osteoporosis. According to the study, authored by a Salk Institute for Biological Studies physician, the drug increased the activity of cells that degrade bones, often leading to fractures which explains why diabetics are can have increased risk of fractures. Avandia recently was labeled with warnings about the risk...

• Woman Awarded $10 Million After Sponge Left Inside Her Body During Surgery

  Amy Rothschild | December 03, 2007 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  A Georgia jury has awarded a woman $10 million for injuries that resulted from a sponge left inside her body during surgery. The sponge was not discovered until a CT scan was performed 10 days after the initial surgery. The 67-year-old woman developed a number of complications and infections that required subsequent surgeries, according to court records. For more information on this subject,...

• Fiery Fatal Crash Kills Three in Mullins, South Carolina

  Amy Rothschild | November 27, 2007 9:27 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  On Monday, November 26, 2007, around 4:20 a.m., three men were driving east in a Jeep Liberty near Mullins, South Carolina, when it drove off the road and then caught fire. All three men died in the fiery crash. The men were so badly burned, they will not be able to be identified until autopsies have been performed although it is thought that they were all from Mullins, South Carolina. The...