Year: 2022

If you’re riding on a motorcycle as a passenger and you get into an accident, it can be a frightening experience. How you handle your accident after it has occurred can seriously impact whether you receive fair compensation. Take the…

Bicyclists in South Carolina have the same rights to the road as motorists. They must also adhere to the same traffic laws as anyone who drives a car, truck, or SUV. If you were riding a bicycle and were hit…

Defensive drivers try to anticipate dangerous traffic situations and react promptly to reduce the chances of an accident. Many of us learned about defensive driving techniques in high school driver’s education courses. Whether or not you took a driver’s ed…

Back injuries are a leading cause of disability for people in their working years. They afflict more than 600,000 employees each year, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says. A single traumatic event such as a fall can…

If you file a car accident claim and then feel like you are being watched, your instincts may be right. While more common in workers’ compensation cases, some insurance companies do sometimes hire private investigators to take photos or surveil…

Are you struggling with serious injuries sustained in an accident involving a distracted trucker? Driving while distracted is dangerous, but it is even worse when the distracted driver is behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound truck. 18-wheelers are much larger…

Bicyclists face potentially dangerous situations when sharing the road with motor vehicles. One of these situations is dooring, where a driver or passenger opens a car door into the path of another road user, such as a bicyclist, without checking…

When we talk about holding people liable when they harm other people, we often talk about “negligence.” The injury victim needs to prove that the at-fault party was negligent, meaning they didn’t take reasonable care to prevent harm. In a…