South Carolina Injury Lawyer Blog

In an extremely sad case of apparent disregard of a 60-year-old Columbia wife and mother, her husband and daughter have been charged of abusing or neglecting a vulnerable adult in the mother's death. Lexington County deputies arrested the pair on December second and according to a Columbia news source their bond has been set at $75,000 after a hearing last Tuesday.

A Lexington County Sheriff indicated that this was the most severe adult abuse he has seen in his 43 years as an officer. When arrived at the hospital on December first, the mother weighed all of 48 pounds and was riddled with maggot infected bedsores. Due to diabetes-related complications, the mother had both legs amputated, had been bedridden for the past 14 years and primarily under the care of her husband and daughter.

According to the Lexington County Coroner, the autopsy was inconclusive as to the exact cause of death, but more test are to be conducted in an effort to determine what happened to the woman.

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In the middle of last week, a store clerk in the state's capital made a call to police because a man was causing a disturbance in the store. Not long after that the man ran from the store into the road near Providence Hospital in Columbia and was struck and killed by a firetruck, according the South Carolina Highway Patrol. There was another man hit by the truck, but he did not incur serious injuries and was promptly treated and released.

The Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins of the Columbia Fire Department said the truck was responding to a hazardous-materials call and the unit had both their lights and sirens on at the time of fatal pedestrian accident. The collision occurred around 11:30 p.m. and South Carolina auto accident lawyers took note that a Post and Courier article mentions that both the men hit by the truck were dressed entirely in dark clothing, making them extremely hard to see in the middle of the night.

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South Carolina wrongful death lawyers find the settlement in this tobacco case particularly interesting because it is the first wrongful death suit of its kind. In recent memory lawsuits have been filed against big tobacco for their production of cigarettes, but this suit was filed against makers of smokeless, chewable tobacco products. In past lawyers focused primarily on cigarette producers because of stronger evidence to back their claims that cigarettes were directly correlated with causes of death.

The makers of Skoal and Copenhagen, the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, have settled with the family of a Canton, North Carolina man for $5 million. The man began chewing tobacco when he became a teenager and died from mouth cancer in 2003 at the age of 42. With such lucrative results in this case it is believed that similar, subsequent lawsuits will be filed against Altria, the firm that acquired U.S. Smokeless Tobacco last year, and other smokeless tobacco producers. This proves that plaintiffs, who have suffered wrongful death and serious injury, can target makers of Skoal, Copenhagen, and the like, and be successful.

The case was initially filed by the Canton man's wife in 2005 a couple of years after he died from cancer of the tongue. Leading up to his death he had had multiple surgeries to remove his tongue. It is highly common for mouth cancer patients to lose parts of their mouth, either from surgical procedures to remove cancerous regions or the tissue in the mouth simply wastes away.

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In an unfortunate and somewhat strange incident, a 21-year-veteran of the South Carolina Highway Patrol was in a deadly auto accident involving only his patrol car. South Carolina injury lawyers found this news in in a Post and Courier report. The State Trooper was killed instantly in the crash, which happened back in March of this year. But, new information has been brought to light about the incident that surrounds the death of the trooper in mystery.

Lancaster County deputies say that after tests were run it can be determined that the 45-year-old trooper was driving anywhere between 104 and 111 mph at the time of accident. The spot of the crash was six miles south of Lancaster, South Carolina on state highway 200 at a point where a side road intersects at an odd angle with the highway.

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After a wonderful holiday with family, friends, and loved ones, injury lawyers in Charleston feel troubled in knowing a South Carolina family had a rough Thanksgiving after one of their members died just before Thanksgiving. A Boneau Beach man suffered life-ending body and serious head injuries, according to the Berkeley County Chief Deputy Coroner, after a wreck with another automobile. The accident occurred last Monday evening on U.S. Highway 17A just south of Jamestown.

Authorities say the deceased driver was most likely trying to turn around when it crossed over 17A in front of St. Stephan, South Carolina woman’s Nissan Altima. According the female driver of the Altima, when the Toyota came across the highway her vehicle struck the driver’s side of the unspecified model of Toyota.

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