Trusted Guidance From Hometown Counsel
You love working in South Carolina, but there are certainly hazards to your job. You work as a roofer, so you always have to be cautious about falls. You have to secure your tools and make sure they don’t fall down and hit people passing by or other workers down...
When people talk about workplace injuries, it's common for them to picture particularly dangerous careers, such as welding in a construction setting or delivery driving. Most people would generally consider working in an office to be inherently safe. However, offices...
July is a month where the summer heat can often feel oppressive. Enjoying a cold beer, a glass of chilled wine or a fresh cocktail with refrigerated juice can be a great way to cool off from the summer heat. Alcoholic drinks are also a mainstay at summer get-togethers...
You were heading out of town when a vehicle coming toward you suddenly veered into your lane. You had no time to respond and ended up colliding with them head-on. This car crash was totally unexpected and put a complete halt to all your plans. After the crash, you...
You’re 21, and something you have wanted to do for a while is to go out and drink. For your birthday, you and your friends from college headed downtown to a popular bar. You had no idea how alcohol would affect you, and you certainly weren’t thinking about the...
Driving while under the influence (DUI) of drugs or alcohol may be one of the most common offenses that people get arrested for in South Carolina. Despite the prevalence of impaired driving arrests and charges, quite a few people still struggle to understand what...
The answer to that question is yes. You do have a right to refuse a breathalyzer test in South Carolina, however, there are serious consequences if you do say no, as there are in other states that have implied consent laws. When you’re pulled over by a police officer,...
When you get hurt in a workplace accident or develop symptoms of a work-acquired illness that keeps you from doing your job, you find yourself in the exact situation that workers' compensation insurance exists to address. No one who works for a living should have to...
Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is used to set the legal limit for drinking and driving in the United States. It is set at .08% as of this writing. If you do not break that limit, does that mean that you cannot get a DUI? It does not. Rather than outlawing a certain...
Distracted driving is a serious problem in the U.S. It results in around 10,000 fatalities a year, many of which would never have had to have happened if not for being distracted behind the wheel. Distractions come in many forms. Though people often think of...