I often speak to people who have become victims of patient harm. They, or maybe a loved one, went to the hospital, nursing home or doctor’s office and suffered a preventable injury, infection or medical error. Many times they’re seriously disabled. Or they’re calling me because their family member or loved one was killed.

COLUMBIA, SC — THE YEAR was 1994, and South Carolina had acquired a well-earned reputation as the nation’s dump, hosting massive nuclear and hazardous waste landfills and a medical-waste incinerator that accepted waste from around the country, when the DHEC board did something extraordinary: It ordered Laidlaw Environmental Systems to post a $133 million cash

Texting and driving can be a deadly mistake. For one story of how texting affected this family’s life, watch the video, provided by Zero Fatalities, here. .

A little less than one year ago, The Post and Courier published a letter I wrote in response to an article concerning the acquittal of Tyrone Winslow Jr. Mr. Winslow sat in jail for two years waiting on a murder trial that “by all accounts, never should have happened.” Mr. Winslow was finally freed when

Occupy can sue Gov. Haley over arrests By: The Associated Press December 16, 2013 COLUMBIA (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t immune from being sued by Occupy Columbia protesters who were kicked off the Statehouse grounds in 2011, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The Republican governor could theoretically appeal the decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit

By Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Litigation News Contributing Editor – November 27, 2013 A person who sends a text message when she knows the recipient is driving may be liable for negligence if the driver causes harm while texting in response, according to a New Jersey appellate court, in the first case of its kind.  In Kubert v. Best [pdf], the