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• May Have Been Recall On Truck Involved in Accident on July 13, 2007, That Resulted in the Deaths of Five and Injury of Others

  Amy Rothschild | July 31, 2007 2:07 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The truck that was involved in the horrific crash on I-526 on July 13, 2007, in Charleston, South Carolina resulting in the deaths of five individuals, is the subject of a recall expected to begin as soon as July 27th. The rig involved in the accident was a 2007 Freightliner Columbia series model that was put into service in December 2006. It had about 48,000 miles on it when it was last...

• Diabetes Drugs Linked to Heart Failure

  Amy Rothschild | July 27, 2007 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  It was just reported that two of the most widely used drugs to treat diabetes and which were taken by thousands of overweight people in the United Kingdom last year, are causing widespread heart failure. The use of the drugs including Avandia and Actos has increased two fold in the last three years as a result of the increasing problem of obesity. The United Kingdom recently reported that in...

• Hot Dog Chili Recall Due to Botulism

  Amy Rothschild | July 19, 2007 10:44 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The Food and Drug Administration has issued a safety recall on certain cans of hot dog chili due to botulism. This was the first incident of botulism being discovered in commerically canned products in decades. Botulism is a bacteria that can cause muscle paralysis. Eventually, paralysis can cause a person to stop breathing and die, unless supported by a ventilator. Most victims eventually...

• Five Killed and Others Injured in Violent Multi-Vehicle Car Accident in Charleston, SC

  Amy Rothschild | July 16, 2007 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  On Friday, July 13, 2007, around rush hour traffic, there was a terrible car accident on the northbound lanes of Interstate 526 or the Mark Clark Expressway at the North Rhett on-ramp. A total of eight vehicles were involved. All the lanes on that portion of Interstate 526 were closed for nearly 10 hours after the accident. While the exact cause of the accident may not be known for weeks, it...

• Exploding Cell Phone Batteries

  Amy Rothschild | July 12, 2007 9:43 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  On July 6, 2007, the New York Times reported that regulators in China have found that certain mobile cell phone batteries manufactured in the southern Guangdong Province, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturing areas in China, were prone to exploding. It was found that the batteries were subject to exploding under certain conditions. The batteries that were affected were those...

• NASCAR Racer Honors 9 Firefighters Killed In The Line of Duty in Fire in Charleston, SC

  Amy Rothschild | July 10, 2007 9:26 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Joe Nemecheck of NASCAR fame, has honored the lives of the nine (9) firefighters whose lives were tragically lost in a warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina that occurred on June 18, 2007. Mr. Nemecheck's car for the Pepsi 400 Nextel Race in Daytona, South Carolina that was held on July 7, 2007, displayed a scene on his racing car which included the names and ages of the deceased...

• Joye Law Firm Offers to Gratuitously Assist Families of Nine Fireman Killed In a Recent Fire in Charleston, South Carolina

  Amy Rothschild | June 19, 2007 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  On June 18, 2007, a local furniture store in South Carolina caught on fire during business hours. City of Charleston firemen rushed to the scene. Nine (9) firemen entered the burning building in order to insure that no employees were trapped inside. While the employees were able to make their way out of the building, nine (9) of the responding fire fighters were not as fortunate when the...

• Mark C. Joye, Esq. Elected as President of Local Chapter of American Board of Trial Advocates

  Amy Rothschild | June 14, 2007 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Mark C. Joye, Esquire, managing partner of Joye Law Firm, L.L.P. was recently elected as the President of the Charleston Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). ABOTA is a national organization whose primary mission is to protect the preservation of the civil jury trial. ABOTA's membership is based on invitation by peers and consists equally of plaintiff and defense attorneys....

• Laborer Killed in School Construction Accident

  Mark Joye | May 10, 2007 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  An Ecuadorian laborer who was working at a school site in Brooklyn, NY, died in a construction accident last week when a trench he was working in collapsed and buried him under tons of dirt.Dirt, debris and tools so thoroughly covered the worker, identified by the police as Juan Amendano, 30, of Brooklyn, that it took rescue workers nearly an hour to dig him out. He was pronounced dead at the...

• Ruling Puts Vioxx Lawsuits on Hold

  Christina Cole | April 27, 2007 1:59 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  Over 1,000 personal injury lawsuits filed in Texas over Vioxx, were put on hold Friday, after a judge ruled the drug's manufacturer gave adequate warnings about the drug and the potential health risks.The State District Court, based in Harris County granted the motion by Merck & Co. Inc., the drug's manufacturer to dismiss part of the lawsuit. Merck's lawyers argued a 2003 Texas law prevents her...