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What to Do When Your Car is Being Recalled

What to Do When Your Car is Being Recalled

Every year in America, motor vehicle manufacturers issue thousands of recalls. Many of these are safety recalls involving defective parts that make it dangerous to drive your vehicle. Knowing if your vehicle is subject to a recall can...

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How is Fault Determined in a Left Hand Turn Accident?

How is Fault Determined in a Left Hand Turn Accident?

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 40% of all crashes in the United States occur at intersections. Most of these crashes involve a vehicle making a left-hand turn. These left-turn crashes happen all the time,...

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What You Should Do After a Jet Ski Accident

What You Should Do After a Jet Ski Accident

Jet skis and other watercraft provide enjoyment to thousands of people on the beaches, rivers, and lakes of South Carolina. In Myrtle Beach, for example, the Intracoastal Waterway offers many opportunities for boating activities. Unfortunately, recreational vehicles like...

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How is Fault Determined in a T-bone Accident?

How is Fault Determined in a T-bone Accident?

In 2020, side-impact car crashes, also known as T-bone collisions or broadside collisions, accounted for almost 23% of all car accident deaths across the United States. In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2020 alone...

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What Are the Risks of Weaving Through Traffic?

What Are the Risks of Weaving Through Traffic?

When you are driving your motorcycle on the open highway, it can be tempting to pass by slow-moving vehicles. However, going at higher speeds increases your likelihood of a fatality or serious accident, especially when you pair speeding...

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What Happens if an Unlicensed Driver Crashes Your Car

What Happens if an Unlicensed Driver Crashes Your Car

Every South Carolina driver is required to have a valid driver’s license to operate a vehicle within the state. In most cases, drivers never question whether another driver has their license — everyone assumes that others follow the...

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Common Hazards Motorcyclists Should Look For

Common Hazards Motorcyclists Should Look For

Road hazards are a risk to all motorists, but doubly so to motorcycle riders. Riding a motorcycle should be a fun, carefree experience, but motorcyclists experience many dangers on the road every day. Unlike a car, a motorcycle...

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Do You Have to Pay Taxes on a Personal Injury Settlement?

Do You Have to Pay Taxes on a Personal Injury Settlement?

After suffering an injury in a serious South Carolina accident, you are probably worried about getting the maximum settlement for your claim. You should not have to pay out of pocket for something the at-fault party did. However,...

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What is the Average Payout for a Rear End Accident?

What is the Average Payout for a Rear End Accident?

Rear-end car accident cases in South Carolina are not always as cut and dried as they may seem. It is true that whether you were brake checking or the other car is tailgating you, or both, or in...

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Filing a Camp Lejeune Lawsuit? You Need These Documents

Filing a Camp Lejeune Lawsuit? You Need These Documents

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a public health agency operating under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The federal agency has steadily been compiling data and analyzing...

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Is Brain Cancer Linked to Camp Lejeune’s Contaminated Water?

Is Brain Cancer Linked to Camp Lejeune’s Contaminated Water?

Between the 1950s and 1980s, many service members, staff, and their family members who lived and worked at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina unknowingly drank contaminated water polluted with several known carcinogens. Many of...

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Is the Camp Lejeune Lawsuit a Mass Tort or Class Action?

Is the Camp Lejeune Lawsuit a Mass Tort or Class Action?

Water contamination at Camp Lejeune lasted for 30 years and affected hundreds of thousands of service members. It is unthinkable to imagine so many people who had dedicated themselves to the service of our nation were subsequently subject...

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