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Don’t Fall for the Wrong Information When it Comes to Your Workers’ Compensation Rights.

Don’t let anyone at work tell you that you don’t have a workers’ compensation case just because you fell on a flat surface at work. Likewise, don’t let anyone at work tell you that you don’t have a workers’ compensation case just because you didn’t slip on something or trip over something. If you fall down at work and get hurt, you need to notify your employer immediately and get medical treatment. ...

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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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