Posts tagged wrongful

• First-Ever Chewing Tobacco Settlement

  Gray Ervin | December 08, 2010 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Toxic Substances
  

  We all remember the huge tobacco settlements stemming from cigarretes. Now, the lid is off of another product that could result in more trouble for tobacco companies. The maker of Skoal and...

• Three Million Dollar Verdict in Myrtle Beach Wrongful Death

  Will Parker | June 02, 2010 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Late last week, an Horry County jury awarded our client, Sean Fay, a $3 Million verdict in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case. In 2002, the Plaintiff took his 25 year old wife, Kelly Fay,...

• 1995 Chevy Blazer Rollover Kills Aiken County 10 Year Old

  Pete Strom | January 06, 2010 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ten year old Zyon Curtis, died early Sunday morning as a result of injuries sustained during a single vehicle rollover accident in Sumter County. George A. Curtis, Zyon’s father, was...

• Medical Malpractice Caps May Be Removed by Two State Supreme Courts

  Will Parker | September 29, 2009 4:08 PM | 3 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A recent article from American Medical News by Amy Lynn Sorrel states Supreme Court judges in two states are set to decide whether or not to do away with limits on non-economic damages in medical...

• Injuries and Deaths Lead to Cribs Recalls

  Will Parker | September 23, 2009 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Certain cribs are going to the crypt. Simplicity Inc. is now out of business. As of July 12, 2009 at least 13 children have died in cribs and basinets recalled by Simplicity. Considering the...

• Falsified and Missing Records Cover Up Medical Malpractice

  Will Parker | July 28, 2009 2:04 PM | 2 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Most of trust that doctors and hospitals will do the right thing and put us, the patients, first. I mean, doctors take an oath to the effect, right? Well, if you do put all your trust in their...

• Offer of Settlement Made by State to Families of Students Killed In Virginia Tech Massacre

  Amy Rothschild | March 26, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Virginia State officials have offered about $100,000 to each of the the families of those killed in the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre if they waive their rights to sue the State of Virginia and Virginia Tech. The State has said that even if they were to be sued and found liable, a state law known as "sovereign immunity" which means that the state can do no wrong., each families'...

• Jury Awards Family $28 Million in Wrongful Shooting of 12 Year Old Boy By Police

  Amy Rothschild | March 11, 2008 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Today, a federal jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, awarded $28 million to the family of a 12 year old boy who was shot by police on Christmas Eve in 2002. The boy was unarmed at the time he was killed. After the boy's death, his family filed a wrongful death claim against Troopers Samuel Nassan and Juan Curry alleging that they acted intentionally. Apparently, the jury agreed. The jury...

• Cases Settled Involving Helicopter Crash

  Amy Rothschild | February 25, 2008 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In 2002, a medical helicopter crashed in Norfolk, killing three people aboard. The helicopter had just left a Norfolk hospital on June 21, 2002. when the pilot reported trouble. The helicopter subsequently crashed at the airpoirt. The pilot, an emergency room nurse and a paramedic were killed. The families of the thre three victims filed suit. On February 19, 2008, the the famiilies'...

• Family Sues Over Six-Year-Old Son's Pool Drowning

  Amy Rothschild | January 29, 2008 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  On January 28, 2008, the parents of a six-year-old boy who drowned when his arm got caught in a strong underwater swimming pool suction drain, filed a law suit agains the the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, Shoreline Pools and other defendants. The lawsuit, which asks for more than $15,000 in damages, states that Shoreline Pools ad a history of violating building code requirements. The lawsuit...