Category: Workers’ Compensation

The most common workplace injuries in the United States remain back strains and sprains. While less severe than injuries such as brain injuries, severed limbs or paralysis, back injuries do cause a great deal of pain and disability. The financial costs for…

Working in construction is a dangerous way to make a living. Even though only 6 percent of the American workforce is in construction, the industry accounts for 20 percent of on-the-job deaths. Statistics from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration…

Many people fail to realize just how dangerous it can be to work in the construction industry. But the construction industry consistently ranks second, behind the transportation industry, in workplace fatalities each year. Even nonfatal construction injuries are often serious…

If you are injured while working on a construction site or other job site in South Carolina, you may be entitled to benefits from the South Carolina workers’ compensation system. Workers’ compensation provides coverage for medical care and a portion…

If you are covered by workers’ compensation in South Carolina, you are eligible for benefits regardless of whether the injury occurred because of a mistake on your part. That is because South Carolina uses a no-fault system for workers’ compensation….

If you are injured in a car accident while on the job in South Carolina, you may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. Those benefits may cover the cost of your medical treatment as well as provide wage replacement while…

By Davis Rice The teaching profession is one of the noblest callings that a person can enter into as a career choice. Teachers are charged with educating, molding and shaping our society’s future generation. Indeed, many of today’s most successful entrepreneurs…

Surveillance is now the norm, not the exception, in most injury cases, particularly in workers’ compensation cases. I don’t know whether insurance companies have tapped into some sort of federal grant money to pay private investigators, but if you have any significant case,…