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When Has An Insurance Company Acted in Bad Faith? Charleston Personal Injury Lawyers
When a liable party is involved in a car wreck, his or her insurance company has a duty to defend unless there is some reason not to. The reason you pay your premiums every month is so that you are … Continue reading
Contractor Liability: Goose Creek Personal Injury Lawyer
Contractor Liability: Goose Creek Personal Injury Lawyer. Oftentimes a business will allow another vendor to set up shop in its store in order to sell their items and increase traffic to the host store. A typical example you might see is … Continue reading
Relevance of Post-Collision Conduct: Are Punitive Damages Attainable? Charleston Car Accident Lawyers
Oftentimes when there is a car wreck the negligent driver will drive off hoping to avoid any liability, leaving the other party seriously injured, and sometimes dead. Surely there should be additional liability, including punitive damages, imposed for this criminal … Continue reading
Summary Jury Trials vs. Regular Jury Trials. Which is Better for the Plaintiff?
Recently, defense attorneys have advocated that the parties agree to “summary jury trial” as opposed to your standard jury trial. What is a summary jury trial? A summary jury trial is a privately held trial where evidence is presented much … Continue reading
St. Louis Jury Awards $3.1 Million in Police Chase Gone Awry
A police chase ending in a deadly crash has turned into a multi-million dollar verdict for the plaintiffs against the local police department in the Village of Uplands Park, MO. The police were in hot pursuit of a suspect, who … Continue reading
The Driver Who Hit Me Is Underinsured. What Next?
Getting into a car wreck is a difficult time for all involved, and it takes a toll both physically and emotionally. This difficult time even more concerning when insurance coverage is an issue. Oftentimes the most careless of drivers are … Continue reading
Jury Awards $6 Million in Beaufort Defamation Case
Yesterday a jury in Beaufort awarded local Municipal Court Judge Maureen Coffey $6 million dollars, $2 million actual and $4 million punitive, for statements made about the Judge by the Home Owners Association at Sea Pines in Hilton Head, stemming … Continue reading
Knowledge is Power: Insurers Now Obligated to Disclose Policy Limits- Goose Creek Personal Injury Lawyers
The South Carolina Fairness in Civil Justice Act of 2011 was largely a measure to change tort reform legislation in South Carolina on behalf of potential defendants, providing caps on punitive damages for plaintiffs in most civil claims. However, there … Continue reading
Uninsured Motorists and How to Protect Yourself – Miller|Conway Charleston Personal Injury Lawyers
South Carolina, like most states, requires by law a minimum amount of liability coverage for every driver on the road. But, like most laws, for every person obeying them there is another who is breaking them. An estimated ten percent … Continue reading
The Perils of Texting and Driving
As personal injury lawyers, we have clients come in our office every day that have been seriously injured in an accident. Oftentimes, a client will remark that the other party was seen on his or her cell phone. As text … Continue reading
