A Hattiesburg man has sued the city, its police department and several officers, alleging they beat him hard enough to break his spine. The injury left him paralyzed, according to a notice of claim letter filed along with Jordan Chase Borgognoni’s lawsuit in Forrest County Circuit Court. Borgognoni seeks unspecified actual, economic, non-economic, compensatory, exemplary, […]

  Former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones won her defamation lawsuit against the gossip website TheDirty.com on Thursday in federal court, winning an award of $338,000. A jury of eight women and two men took about 10½ hours over two days hour before delivering the unanimous verdict at the federal courthouse. Jones appeared to be fighting back […]

  The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department has paid $50,000 to settle a wrongful arrest lawsuit. Lisa Lynn Bennett sued the sheriff’s office after she was arrested in January 2012 and charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle. The lawsuit said Bennett didn’t commit the crime. The lawsuit alleged that a deputy was negligent in his […]

South Carolina business lawyers at Hughey Law Firm. Top rated attorney Nathan Hughey Charleston South Carolina. From Nation Law Forum. On July 10, 2013, Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York issued a 160-page opinion holding that Apple conspired with five book publishers to raise e-book prices and eliminate retail price competition […]

A homeowner, just like a business, generally owes a duty to reasonably prepare a premises.  That means to look at the home and property for defects which should be discovered with reasonable inspection.  Basically, a homeowner who has a dangerous condition on his property which he knows about or should know about in the exercise […]

Hughey Law Firm personal injury attorneys lien resolution.  Nursing home abuse lawyer Nathan Hughey assist our clients in resolving liens related to claims you may have.  These include Medicaid Liens, Medicare Liens, and those associated with private insurers.  We negotiate the liens to get our clients as much as possible.  When the use of third […]