South Carolina Car Accident Lawyer - Auto Injury Attorney

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Auto Injury Compensation

If you or a loved one has been injured in a car accident in South Carolina, you need a lawyer.

South Carolina is an at-fault state with complex personal injury laws regarding car accident compensation.

Don't accept the insurance co's pitiful first settlement offer until you've reviewed it with our lawyers.

Let our South Carolina car accident attorney help you find out what you're really owed.

Even when it seems clear the other driver was at fault, accident injury victims can find themselves in a serious dispute over fast & fair compensation with insurers looking to minimize what they pay.

They don't realize what they are up against until it's too late.

After an accident it's understandable to be overwhelmed and confused. Insurers try to take advantage of that to minimize the compensation you are really entitled to recover.

When you hire an experienced auto injury attorney you put them on notice that you won't settle for less than you deserve.

Keep reading to learn more about how the auto accident lawyers at Lawsuit Legal can help maximize your personal injury claim after a collision.

 

Auto Injury Compensation in South Carolina

South Carolina is an at-fault state with a modified comparative negligence rule. Plaintiffs can file a personal injury claim for damages when the other party is 51% responsible for the accident. The following are potential damages which should be accounted for in a legal claim:

• Medical Costs - Including emergency medical treatment, ongoing treatment cost, and all medical bills resulting from required healthcare resulting from the crash.
• Pain and Suffering - South Carolina law allows for the recovery of pain and suffering damages for wrecks involving plaintiffs who sustain significant and permanent loss of bodily function, permanent injuries, disfigurement or death.
• Significant Property Damage - This can include property damage to vehicles, cargo, or surrounding property.
• Lost Wages and Future Income - South Carolina allows the recovery of lost earning capacity and future income from lifelong injuries impacting earnings included in economic damages.
• Long-term Injury and Disability - Liable parties must compensate you for the losses any life-long impact and disabilities sustained result in.
• Loss of Consortium - Compensation consideration for relationship impacts including the death of a loved one, loss of fellowship, or loss of certain benefits provided by the victim before the accident.
• Disfigurement - Additional consideration for disfigurement damages for burns, severe scarring, limb loss, subject to the pain and suffering criteria in South Carolina law.
• Emotional Distress - South Carolina allows for damages in cases where the victim can prove a physical impact for their emotional injuries.

 

Serious auto accidents are especially devastating to victims who commonly sustain serious personal injury along with pain and suffering. After an wreck when you've been hurt, especially in the aftermath of a serious injury, the insurance companies will try to take advantage.

Your auto accident injury lawyer will help you assess the full extent of your losses that can count as recovered damages to ensure you don't settle for less than you deserve. In consideration for the personal injuries and resulting medical treatment cost - you deserve maximum compensation.

Medical treatment costs add up fast. From minor scuffs and bruises, a few cuts, to more serious injuries including broken bones, organ damage, amputations, traumatic brain injury, or even worse, fatalities. After an accident, when you or a loved one has been hurt, especially immediately following the event of a serious injury, the insurance companies will try to take advantage to limit what they pay.

Your claim should consider all economic damages and non-economic damages which meet the legal standard in the state.

 

Do not make a statement to the insurance company before speaking with an attorney

 

South Carolina Locations Served

South Carolina spans from the coasts of Myrtle Beach across the midlands and uplands of the Greenville and Spartanburg area in the mountains. It includes the heavily trafficked highways, the I-77, I-95, I-20, I-26, I-385, I-85, and I-526 among other busy intrastate highways.

• Cities: Charleston, Columbia, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Rock Hill, Greenvielle, Spartanburg, Summerville, Goose Creek, Sumter, Myrtle Beach, Florence, Greer, Fort Mill, Anderson, Hilton Head, among others..
• Counties: Greenville, Richland, Charleston County, Horry, Spartanburg County, Lexington, York, Berkeley County, Anderson County, Beaufort, Aiken County, Dorchester, FLorence, Pickens, Lancaster, Sumter, Orangeburg, Oconee, Greenwood, Laurens, etc...
• Zip Codes: 29681, 29072, 29485, 29445, 29732, 29730, 29483, 29588, 29464, 29651, 29223, 29073, 29501, 29579, 29910, 29526, 29621, 29414, 29687, 29607, 2966, among many others...

While dense population centers like Charleston, Greenville or Spartanburg make vehicle accidents more common than less trafficked areas, each wreck is unique. Collisions on the interstate highways in the state can be especially devastating because of high speeds and semi-truck and commercial vehicle traffic.

 

 

What to do Immediately After a Crash

Assess your Health Situation

• Are you bleeding? Check your immediate condition. Are you sore, nauseaus, bruised, stiff, or dizzy? Are there obvious bodily injuries, lacerations or serious wounds that need immediate attention? If you can, turn on your emergency lights, and be careful if you are going to leave the vehicle.

Gather Information

• While waiting for the police and emergency services, if you are able and it can be safely done, take photos of what happened to document the scene of the collision.

Consult Our Attorneys

• Before speaking with the insurance company, consult with our personal injury attorney. The insurers take advantage of the confusion and overwhelm immediately following a serious accident to push for statements that they will use against you.

 

Reasons to Get an Attorney after a Car Accident

We know the stress you are under after a wreck. That’s why our accident injury attorneys work hard to take the legal burdens off your shoulders so you can focus on recovery. Fast & fair compensation depends on several factors, including the severity of the wreck, who was at fault, and how complicated the case is. Your lawyer will help you assess the full extent of your losses that count as recoverable damages to ensure you don't settle for less than you deserve. In consideration for your injuries and resulting medical treatment cost - you deserve maximum compensation.

You can count on insurers fighting to pay as little as possible. Your lawyer will help with the value assessment of your true losses. Your attorneys will handle all communications with the insurers, can help with medical bills, and will fight to maximize what your injury claim is worth. Costs and expenses of representation are treated similarly — no fees unless we win.

Most Common Accident Types Handled

The city streets and highways of South Carolina result in a number of common motor vehicle accident fact patterns. Generally, high speeds result in more serious injury.

We regularly review injury claims from South Carolina residents resulting from the following common collision types:

Lane Changing Accidents:    Vehicles can change lanes without looking, or illegally, often at high speeds resulting in the need to swerve, hit guardrails, and collide with other drivers or pedestrians.

Head-on Collisions:    The violent impact when motor vehicles hit each other head-on. Catastrophic injury and fatalities commonly result from the crushing forces upon impact.

Side Impact / Side Swipe:    Two vehicles traveling in the same direction when one driver swerves to collide with the another vehicle.

Rear End Accidents / Rear Ended:    Getting hit from behind by another vehicle. Damage to the neck, whiplash injury, and head trauma are common for victims unprepared for the whipping violence of unexpectedly being rear-ended.

High-Speed Impacts:    Accidents involving high speeds over 40 mph. Common on the interstate highways. Failure to control speed or reckless speeds commonly cause very serious injuries for involved cars going too fast that lose control.

DUI / DWI:    Drunk drivers and intoxicated drivers can lead to running red lights at high speed, reckless actions, blind lane changes, and a failure to stop at intersections - all of which can be a primary cause for a collision.

Rollover Accidents:    Vehicles, especially tractor-trailers, semi-trucks and SUVs, flip end over end or side to side. We see passenger ejections from vehicles when the seat belt isn't fastened, serious injury, and death can result.

The majority of auto accidents resulting in catastrophic injury are a result of: excessive speed and human error.

 

 

What Makes a Strong Car Accident Injury Claim In South Carolina?

When there is clear liability, serious personal injuries sustained, along with clear and abundant supporting evidence you likely have a strong case.

Documentation and evidence are also vital to support what happened as well as value assessments when seeking damages.

Medical records, police reports, eye witness testimony, traffic light video, and vehicle black box data can help substantiate any claims and strengthen the case for compensation.

How Much Does an South Carolina Auto Accident Lawyer Cost?  We know that as a car accident victim, you deserve to RECEIVE money, not PAY money out-of-pocket. The law firm handles everything from investigation to negotiation once representation has been established. When a favorable settlement or verdict secured, you pay a percentage of the money won for you. We are happy to discuss our fees during your FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation.

How much will I receive for my car accident settlement?  Every client will have different costs and losses. All damages that meet the legal standard in South Carolina, should be considered in your injury claim. Whether $1,000 or $10 million, you should never have to cover your own costs. If someone else caused your crash, you deserve to receive compensation from the liable party.