Truck Accident Lawyer Blog

South Carolina's quintessential lawyer-blogger, Myrtle Beach's Dave Swanner, has been blogging on legal topics by way of his South Carolina Trial Law Blog for quite a while now. I always appreciate the high quality of the information that Dave offers.

One page on his blog in particular is a life-saver for South Carolina attorneys. Questions SC Lawyers Want Answered collects together Dave's blog entries that offer some of the basic information that South Carolina injury attorneys frequently need to have at their fingertips - calculating witness fees, the damages cap on Tort Claims Act cases, maximum compensation rates in South Carolina workers' compensation cases, the critical case decisions affecting how punitive damages are awarded in South Carolina, recovering depreciation for vehicles, the maximum that doctors and hospitals can charge for medical records, the rate for calculating post-judgment interest on damage awards, and which South Carolina court takes priority when there is a scheduling conflict.

So, if you are a South Carolina attorney who is in occasional need of answers to these kinds of questions, or just a curious member of the public, now you know where to turn.

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In a tragic turn of events, Lance Corporal James Haynes, an eleven year veteran of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, died early Friday morning in an accident as he responded to a tractor trailer collision. Corporal Haynes’s patrol car left the rain-slicked roadway near Orangeburg, South Carolina and struck a utility pole.

By all accounts, Trooper Haynes, the father of two, was a deeply committed family man. He was a little league coach and in one prior interview cited his mother as the most influential person in his life. On the job he was a frequently commended patrol officer who was named Trooper of the Month in September 2007 by the Orangeburg Times and Democrat newspaper.

Traffic-related incidents have been the leading cause of death of on-duty law enforcement officers for each of the last ten years.

Thanks to WIS, the Times and Democrat, and policemag for reporting.

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