Year: 2018

If you are injured on the job in South Carolina, you have a number of rights. For instance, most workers who get hurt on the job have the right to receive workers’ compensation benefits. Those rights, unfortunately, do not come with…

Driving in Columbia can be dangerous. How dangerous it can be may depend on which intersections you drive through in the city. Statistics show that you face a higher likelihood of getting into a car accident at certain intersections than you do…

In a recent 5-4 decision that will likely impact tens of millions of private sector employees, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workers cannot band together to file class action lawsuits that challenge employers’ violations of federal labor laws. According…

For many older adults and their younger caretakers, a slip and fall accident presents a medical nightmare. Anyone can slip and fall. However, the older we get, the more brittle our bones become. So, if you are elderly, you face a higher…

Many nursing homes in South Carolina face the problem of understaffing. For some of these nursing homes, the problem reflects a national shortage of qualified nurses – one that is “on the cusp of becoming a crisis,” according to The Atlantic….

Drowsy driving contributes to far too many auto accidents in South Carolina. The National Sleep Foundation considers driving while fatigued to be just as dangerous as driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs. This is why we welcome Uber’s recent announcement that…

Seven inmates died and at least 17 others suffered serious injuries in a nearly eight-hour long prison riot that started Sunday night at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, the Associated Press reports. The Charleston Post and Courier called the riot “the deadliest episode of…

A few years ago, ProPublica published a report on how states compensate workers if they get hurt on the job and lose use of a body part. As the report notes, it is truly a “patchwork of laws.” Workers’ compensation benefits vary from state…