If I am in a wreck, may I use my health insurance to pay for medical treatment?
Short answer: Yes. After an auto accident, the medical care providers who treated you want to be paid, and you want them to be paid. The quickest way for them…
Family blames childs Erb’s palsy on medical negligence
Parents have filed a lawsuit against the hospital and two doctors who delivered their son after they say doctor negligence led to their son’s Erb’s palsy. According to the lawsuit,…
Design defect prompts recall of inflatable slide
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall on nearly 21,000 Banzai in-ground pool water slides after receiving two reports of serious neck injuries and one reported death. A…
Elementary school crossing guard hit by car
A 35 year-old Summerville woman sustained serious brain injuries earlier this week after she was hit by a teenage driver in front of Sangaree Elementary. Her family says her injury…
Deputy arrested and charged with drunk driving
A Charleston County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Sunday morning after he crashed his car into a guardrail on Interstate 526 and Highway 17. The 37 year-old man has been charged…
NFL concussion lawsuit changes with Easterlings death
One of the 61 lawsuits filed against the NFL will change from personal injury to wrongful death following the suicide of former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling. Easterling, who played…
Why do I Need a Lawyer for my Auto Accident?
A person who sustains injury in an Automobile Accident has much to deal with after the accident. “Where do I get treatment?” “How do I prove it was the other…
Missing mother found dead in car crash
A missing 26 year-old mother was found dead on Monday in Union County after her family reported her missing Saturday night. According to investigators, the mother of three had been…
Hospital wrongly declares newborn baby dead
Two parents from Argentina had the shock of a lifetime after learning that their newborn baby was wrongly declared dead. They were in the hospital morgue to see their daughter…
Elderly Sunset man killed in motorcycle accident
A 75 year-old Sunset man was killed Sunday afternoon when his Harley Davidson motorcycle overturned on Whitewater Falls Road near Walhalla. The man was traveling with two friends to Salem…
Marine pleads guilty to child assault and battery
A 27 year-old Marine pleaded guilty on Monday to assault and battery and unlawful conduct toward a child in a Charleston County Circuit Court. In the summer of 2010, a…
Amtrak train collides with truck
Saturday evening an Amtrak train carrying nearly 200 passengers crashed into a pickup truck in Seneca. The woman driving the truck was able to escape before the train crashed into…
Husk restaurant sued for wrongful death
Husk, the renowned Charleston eatery named the Best New Restaurant by Bon Appetit Magazine, is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after an assistant manager, who was drinking at the restaurant,…
Red Sox pitcher discusses medical mistake
Bobby Jenks, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, recently talked for the first time about a life-threatening medical mistake that happened to him last December. He underwent surgery at the…
Study finds arsenic in some foods
Researchers at Dartmouth College have found high levels of arsenic in some organic foods containing brown rice syrup. Food products such as organic baby formula, cereal bars, and energy shot…
248,000 lunch boxes recalled
California Innovations, Inc. is recalling nearly 248,000 insulated and expandable lunch box sets due to leaking freezer gel in the freezer gel packs. The Ci Sport three-piece lunch box, which…
Search continues for missing passengers on cruise liner
Italian rescue crews have continued searching for 24 passengers and crew members still missing after the Costa Concordia cruise liner capsized near the Tuscan coastline last Friday. The search had…