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981 Traffic Fatalities in SC in 2016: Tips to Avoid Auto Accidents in 2017

Matt Whitehead | Attorney, Carolina Law Group

Auto accidents accounted for 981 deaths last year on South Carolina roads, according to preliminary numbers from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS). That’s 981 individual lives lost and families impacted. Non-fatal collisions number over 100,000 per year in this state alone, resulting in property damage and 30,000+ injuries, and costing South Carolina over $1 billion in medical costs and work loss. As personal injury attorneys at The Carolina Law Group, it’s our job to help people who have been injured or have lost a loved one in an...

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SC Tort Claims Act Unfairly Caps Damages

Making a personal injury or civil liberty claim in SC against the state or another governmental entity in the state can mean not getting the compensation to which you really should be entitled. That's due to a cap on most damages under the SC Tort Claims Act, limiting the maximum damages to $300,000. While that may seem like quite a bit of money, it is actually very little in many cases....

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Rest In Peace, Eugene Huggins

With heavy hearts, we learned this morning that SCTLA/SCAJ Founder, Eugene Huggins, of Bennettsville, passed away at his home on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Mr. Huggins, one of the founding visionaries in our state, who founded the South Carolina Association for Justice (formerly the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association) in 1958. We at The Carolina Law Group offer our deepest condolences to Mr. Huggins’s family and honor his lifetime of dedication to Justice. Eugene Huggins Obituary...

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Hand-Dipped vs. Handmade

All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon. All bourbon is not created equal, but it should be labeled and marketed honestly. Just four years after Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc. (probably best known by its namesake mass-marketed bourbon) obtained an injunction protecting its trademarked red wax dip and seal, a class action lawsuit has been filed against the whiskey maker alleging false advertising. ...

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