I, Nathan Hughey, have had the opportunity to teach “tort reform” to other lawyers and professionals within the State of South Carolina since “tort reform” was enacted in this state in 2005.  From the beginning, I researched his area of the law and have not only taught continuing legal education on this subject, but I […]

Defamation allows a plaintiff to recover for injury to reputation as the result of the defendant’s communication to others of a false message about the plaintiff. Slander is a spoken defamation while libel is a written defamation or one accomplished by actions or conduct. In certain instances, the messages themselves will be presumed to be […]

In South Carolina, the Legislature has chosen to impose strict liability against dog owners and others having “the dog in [their] care or keeping.”  Strict liability is a policy decision to impose liability regardless of fault. With the singular exception for the circumstance where the injured person provokes the attack, dog bite cases involve strict […]

Once a nursing home attorney such as Nathan Hughey at Hughey Law Firm (me) files a lawsuit in a nursing home neglect or similar case on behalf of the client or family, there are various tools that the Plaintiff’s lawyer can use to obtain information. Subpoenas are documents which are served upon third parties for […]

A Hughey Law Firm Client tells about his experience with Nathan Hughey after his mother’s death due to nursing home neglect. A Hughey Law Firm client who retained Nathan Hughey to prosecute the wrongful death lawsuit of his mother discusses his experience with South Carolina injury attorneys Hughey Law Firm and South Carolina wrongful death […]

  I, Nathan Hughey, have had the opportunity to teach nursing home litigation to other attorneys for over seven years, and my presentations have been approved by the South Carolina Bar as available to count toward those attorneys’ required annual continuing legal education credit hours.  From its implementation in 2005, I have taught “tort reform” […]