Billy Howard/PBS Cheryl Morgan holds a photo of her father, who died after drinking dishwashing liquid in an assisted living facility in Georgia. Ms. Morgan is featured in a new PBS documentary, “Life and Death in Assisted Living.” Assisted living underwent a big growth spurt in the 1990s as major corporations built and bought facilities, […]

Nursing home slapped with $1.5 million fine over smoking policy enforcement, supervision A Virginia nursing home faces a $1.45 million verdict in a negligence suit involving a former resident who sustained severe burns. The resident, Joseph Roberts, brought the charges in 2011. In June of that year, he sustained severe burns while residing at Carriage […]

$1.65M pretrial settlement reached in Wadmalaw Island wreck by Attorney Nathan Hughey A Lowcountry man who suffered severe injuries to his left arm in a 2009 auto collision has settled for $1.65 million in mediation over alleged reckless driving – and he did it without ever filing a complaint. In pre-litigation negotiations, lawyers for plaintiff […]

The family of a tow truck driver shot and killed in Beaufort settled a case recently as outlined below.  South Carolina wrongful death law firm Hughey Law Firm handles trucking accident cases, wrongful death cases, and has handled shooting cases.   Family of man killed by truck driver settles suit By The Associated Press Published: August […]

Charleston accident attorney Nathan Hughey’s client’s car skidded off a slick Edgefield County road and flipped into a stream, which Nathan Hughey of South Carolina wrongful death law firm Hughey Law Firm LLC argued was a result of a defective design. The SCDOT has settled its claim against the state highway department for $225,000. The […]

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