Personal Injury
The law firm of Attorneys Lee, Eadon, Isgett, and Popwell, P.A, represents injured people. We understand that physical and emotional injuries frequently result in crippling disabilities and devastating family consequences. Compensation for damages from physical and emotional injuries can be recovered when the injuries are the fault of another person, company, corporation, or business. Our firm represents plaintiffs (the injured party) in all of the following areas:
Following are questions that we are frequently asked about these areas of personal injury law by those who are injured and the answers that we commonly give to those questions.
Car wrecks
When am I able to collect damages for injuries I received in a car wreck?
If another driver causes or contributes to causing a wreck in which you are
injured, you are entitled to recover damages. In South Carolina, you cannot
recover damages if you are more than fifty percent at fault.
How do I prove my case for damages in an automobile accident?
In order to recover damages for an injury in an auto accident, you must prove
that the other driver failed to do something that a careful driver would
have done or not have driven in a way in which a careful driver would have
driven. Such conduct is known as "negligence." Once you have
proven that the other driver was at fault in causing your injuries, you
have a right to recover damages. If the other driver received a traffic
ticket, you will probably be entitled to recover damages.
Slip and Fall injuries
How do I know if a store is liable for injuries I received when I slipped
and fell in their building?
If the owner of a business places merchandise or shelving in a dangerous
location, stacks merchandise dangerously high, or displays merchandise negligently
and these actions cause you injury, store owners are liable for damages.
Store owners are also required to clean spills and other foreign objects
from the aisles.
The store owners are liable for injury if they had notice of the dangerous
condition and had sufficient time to correct the problem.
Animal attacks
Can I collect damages if a dog has bitten me?
Under South Carolina law, the owner or person responsible for the care of
an animal that bites another person is liable for the victim's personal injuries.
Wrongful death
What damages can be collected if a death results from a personal injury?
If a death results from a personal injury, the survivors of the injured person
are entitled to recover the full amount of earnings that the deceased would
have earned during his or her lifetime. The heirs are also entitled to recover
a fair amount for the emotional loss resulting from the death of their loved
one.
Punitive damages my also be awarded in certain cases. Punitive damages are designed to punish reckless conduct and to make an example of those who cause injuries because of their reckless conduct. For example, automobile wrecks caused by drunk drivers sometimes result in punitive damage awards.