Tag: Fatal car crashes

West Columbia Drug Clinic at Fault in Fatal Crash

Post author By davidlhood
Post date December 18, 2021

Columbia Metro Treatment Center in West Columbia, and its chain owner, Colonial Management Group will pay $10.5 million to settle two wrongful death lawsuits after one of its patients, under the influence of drugs, killed an elderly couple and their grandson in a 2015 auto accident. The order says that this lawsuit settlement almost exhausts […]

Tags Fatal car crashes, Who can file a wrongful death lawsuit?, wrongful death lawsuit

Wrongful Death Attorney

Video: Traffic Deaths
in South Carolina

Post author By davidlhood
Post date November 23, 2021

Video Transcript I’m attorney David Hood and I’ve been practicing law across the state of South Carolina for over 30 years. My clients frequently ask me some questions that have to deal with traffic fatalities and how they happen in South Carolina. That’s what we’re going to cover right now. South Carolina’s poor roads First […]

Tags Fatal car crashes, How to file a wrongful death lawsuit, Who can file a wrongful death lawsuit?

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