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Covers South Carolina injury and accident law including food poisoning, car accidents, and product liability.
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$200,000 Settlement Reached in Death of Student

Posted on January 18, 2008
The family of a Blufton Middle School boy who died after a fight on campus reached a $200,000 South Carolina wrongful death settlement with the school district and local government. Francisco Belman ? 14, died in 2002, several months after being punched in the chest by two fellow students as part of a gang initiation...

Nissan Recalls Over Half a Million Cars

Posted on January 14, 2008
Nissan has announced an auto product recall of over 650,000 of its Altima and Sentra passenger cars to fix problems with a sensor that could lead to engine stalling. The Japanese automaker said the recalls affects Altima and Sentra vehicles from the 2002 and 2005-2006 model years equipped with a 2...

Highway Worker Killed In Accident

Posted on January 11, 2008
A state department of transportation road maintenance foreman died after being hit by a pickup truck while on the job, according to an AP wire report. Standra Jones of Gaston , South Carolina died of multiple injuries at 6:21am at Lexington Medical Center following the truck accident according to authorities...

Dangerous Rail Crossing to be Upgraded

Posted on January 07, 2008
A drop down safety gate and flashing signals are being added to a Graniteville, South Carolina crossing where five people died in a car-train collision 3 years earlier. The tracks themselves are also being moved closer to the Graniteville canal to provide further safety and make room for the changes...

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Safety Failures Right Where You Don?t Need Them

Posted on December 28, 2007
Families have probably heard a lot this year about recalls of defective toys with unsafe lead paint. But as the holidays approach, people buying ?toys? for older loved ones should watch out for product defects too. The latest case in point, reported by The State on Nov...

Medical Negligence Gives Patients Profound Physical and Mental Problems

Posted on December 26, 2007
As medical malpractice and birth injury attorneys, we?re interested in major developments in medical malpractice law. Recently, we ran across two major cases (in a legal publication that we can?t link to, unfortunately) that were serious enough to share...

Yet More Bad News on Infant Car Seats

Posted on December 24, 2007
On the day before Thanksgiving, Graco Children?s Products quietly recalled more than 300,000 infant car seats because they may pose a choking hazard. The backing of the seats can peel away from the seams, exposing filling underneath that could choke a curious baby...

Major Victory in Explorer Class Action Litigation

Posted on December 21, 2007
Owners of rollover-prone Ford Explorers scored a major victory Nov. 28 when Ford Motor Co. agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers. About a million people in Texas, Illinois, Connecticut and California had alleged that their SUVs were prone to roll over, which hurt their value because of the actual or perceived danger...

Defective Heating Units Can Cause Deadly Fires

Posted on December 19, 2007
Just in time for winter weather comes a recall of wall-mounted heating and cooling units from Carrier, Inc. The company?s wall-mounted heating and cooling units (known as PTAC/PTHPs) are being recalled because the insulation inside them can break, sparking fires and causing toxic smoke...

Nike Among Companies Announcing 3 New Recalls

Posted on December 17, 2007
3 new product recalls involving a football helmet, folding chairs, and cookies were announced on November 15th, according to an Associated Press report. Nike is recalling about 235,000 football helmet chin straps after the company received 18 reports of the straps breaking, including some that resulted in facial lacerations and concussions, a government safety group announced...

Merck To Pay $4.85B Vioxx Settlement

Posted on December 14, 2007
Merck & Co., manufacturer of the painkiller Vioxx, said Friday November 9th that it will pay $4.85 billion to end thousands of state and federal lawsuits over its painkiller Vioxx in one of the largest drug settlements ever. Vioxx was developed to treat arthritis, but was pulled from the market on September 30, 2004 after its researchers determined that continued use of the product doubled risk of heart attacks and strokes...

Fisher-Price kitchen toys recalled due to choking risk

Posted on December 12, 2007
The world?s largest toy manufacturer, Mattel Inc., announced on Tuesday November 6th that it was recalling more than 172,000 Fisher Price kitchen toys in the United States and Europe because several children choked and gagged on small, detachable parts...

Worker?s Comp Commission won?t follow Sanford order?s standard

Posted on December 10, 2007
The South Carolina Workers? Compensation Commission rejected an order made by Governor Mark Sanford to begin using new uniform standards in deciding how much should be paid to injured workers with long-term disabilities. The commission signed an order on October 25th that said that they would follow the law as written, which took into account the individual facts of each case, and not Sanford?s order to begin using uniform standards in determining the amounts awarded to the injured workers...

Auto crashes are top killer of teenagers

Posted on December 07, 2007
More teens die each year in the U.S. from automobile crashes than any other cause, a group said Tuesday, and the national rate doubles among S.C. teens. The South Carolina National Safety council said it wants Alive at 25, a defensive driving survival course for young drivers 16 to 24, to become available in all S...

5 Million Frozen pizzas recalled due to E.Coli contamination

Posted on December 07, 2007
The latest in the litany of voluntary food recalls was announced on Saturday, November 3rd, when General Mills recalled nearly 5 million pizzas after an investigation by federal and state regulators found that the pepperoni topping likely caused several E...

More lead tainted toys recalled

Posted on December 05, 2007
Mattel recalled 665,000 lead-contaminated children?s products and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced recalls of 627,000 other Chinese-made toys from various manufacturers that are contaminated with lead, according to an Associated Press report...

Alcohol, Speeding Cause of Most Fatal South Carolina Traffic Accidents

Posted on December 03, 2007
If you commute for any substantial amount of time on South Carolina roads, you see it on a daily basis; the remnants of dangerous, sometimes deadly, automobile accidents on the shoulders of our highways. Emergency vehicles treating the injured, highway patrol officers directing traffic and clearing the roads of the wrecked automobiles...

3 New Product Recalls Announced

Posted on December 03, 2007
A trio of product recalls were announced on October 25th in an Associated Press report. The recalls were for a treadmill, a ski board, and bicycle forks and were all from separate manufacturers. The first recalls, were for 4,700 Cybex or Trotter treadmills manufactured by Cybex International that were recalled and repaired in October 2003...

Baby seats recalled after children hurt

Posted on November 29, 2007
A South African baby seat manufacturer recalled about 1 million of its ?Baby Sitter? seats after 28 reports of babies falling out of the seats, including three skull fractures, according to an Associated Press report. Bumbo International, which manufactured the child seats, recalled the products because babies were at risk for serious head injuries when the seats are placed on a table, countertop, chair or other raised surface and the infants arch their backs, possibly causing them to flip out of the seats and fall onto the floor...

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