Holland&Usry, P.A.

practice areas

• Wrongful Death
• Automobile/Truck Motorcycle Accidents
• Defective Products & Drugs
• Nursing Home Neglect & Abuse
• Trip & Fall/Slip & Fall
• Workers' Compensation
• Criminal Defense
• DUI/DUAC

    Wrongful death occurs when the carelessness or recklessness of a person or corporation causes the death of another person. For example, wrongful death can result from an automobile, motorcycle, or truck accident, nursing home neglect or abuse, a defective product, or a number of other causes. When a wrongful death occurs, South Carolina law allows certain relatives of the deceased, usually the spouse, children, and/or parents, to recover for their emotional trauma caused by the death, the loss of the deceased’s companionship, funeral expenses, and the deceased’s lost earnings that would have contributed to supporting the family. The relatives may also bring a survival action to recover for the deceased’s medical bills, as well as the deceased’s conscious pain, suffering, and mental distress.

    Coping with the shock and horror of the unexpected death of a loved one is already overwhelming. If you believe your loved one died as a result of another’s carelessness, you will need a lawyer that is sympathetic, thorough, and aggressive. At Holland & Usry, we will relentlessly pursue other people or corporations who caused your loved one’s untimely demise and build a case against them to obtain the maximum possible amount of recovery for your loss.

    If you have a loved one who died from preventable injuries caused by someone else, call the Spartanburg wrongful death lawyers at Holland & Usry at 582-0416 for a free consultation to discuss your case.

    Whether we realize it or not, we put our lives in jeopardy every day we get in a car and put it on the road. There is probably no greater continuing threat to the health and safety of ordinary people around Spartanburg than auto, motorcycle, or truck accidents. In an automobile, motorcycle, or truck accident, your life is thrown from your comfortable routine into a screeching halt the second brakes squeal and metal pounds into metal. Medical bills pile up. Wages are lost. Simple daily activities become impossible. To make matters worse, you are forced to try to recover for your injuries from an insurance adjuster who handles these claims every day and is paid to save the insurance company money, not be fair to you.

    Tractor-trailer, 18-wheeler, and semi-truck accidents can be devastating. These are the most enormous machines on our roads, and when a truck driver doesn’t look out for fellow motorists, lives can be forever changed by grievous injuries and even wrongful death. Truckers and trucking companies are governed by a complex set of regulations designed to prevent tractor-trailer, 18-wheeler, and semi-truck accidents. These cases are often hard-fought by the truckers and trucking companies. At Holland & Usry, we have the experience to find the evidence, and if necessary, the experts, to build a strong case against the truckers and trucking companies who hurt you or a loved one.

    At Holland & Usry, we help seriously injured victims of automobile, motorcycle, or truck accidents recover for their injuries. We know that recovering from the trauma of severe injuries is hard enough. We understand insurance companies often try to complicate claim settlement with victims, taking advantage of victims’ frustration and confusion to write a cheaper check. If you are seriously injured in automobile, motorcycle, or truck accident, Holland & Usry will handle the insurance company, vigilantly protecting your right to recovery of a fair amount for your injuries, and we do not hesitate to take cases to trial if the insurance company fails to make an acceptable offer.

    If you or a loved one is seriously injured in an automobile, motorcycle, or truck accident, call the Spartanburg automobile, motorcycle, or truck accident lawyers at Holland & Usry at 582-0416 for a free consultation to discuss your case.

    Manufacturers and sellers of products have an obligation to ensure the products they sell are not unreasonably dangerous to consumers. Despite this obligation, manufacturers and sellers sometimes market their products to an uninformed public without properly ensuring their products are safe for their intended use. All too often, this is done to maximize profits at the expense of consumer safety.

    Unreasonably dangerous products can result from defects in the manufacturing process, design flaws, or from the failure of the manufacturer to adequately warn consumers of dangers caused by the intended use of the product known to the manufacturer but not known to the consumer. Due to the science, engineering, and human factors involved in manufacturing, selling, and using products, defective products cases can be very complex. At Holland & Usry, we will work to harness the law and the science required to maximize the recovery for victims injured by defective products.

    If you or a loved one has been harmed by using a defective product, please call the Spartanburg defective product lawyers at Holland & Usry at 582-0416 for a free consultation to discuss your case.

    Statistics show more Americans are entering nursing homes. The basis for the nursing home-resident relationship is the nursing home’s assurance to both the resident and his family that the nursing home will provide proper care, supervision, and assistance to the resident. Unfortunately, nursing homes sometimes break this basic promise, due sometimes to emphasizing profits over residents’ health and safety, causing some of our society’s most fragile people to suffer neglect and abuse.

    Deficient nursing home care can result from a number of causes, such as inadequate staffing, inadequate training, lack of proper medical care, and inadequate resident supervision. As a result, nursing home residents suffer injuries including amputations, bedsores, falls, broken bones, malnutrition, dehydration, excessive physical restraints, overmedication, and even wrongful death.

    At Holland & Usry, we pride ourselves in vindicating the rights of victims of Spartanburg nursing home neglect or abuse. We thoroughly review nursing home and medical records and, if necessary, hire nursing home experts to highlight the nursing home’s failure to provide the care it promised it would, all to maximize the recovery on your loved one’s behalf.

    If you have a loved one who is a seriously injured victim of nursing home neglect or abuse, call the Spartanburg nursing home neglect and abuse lawyers at Holland & Usry at 582-0416 for a free consultation to discuss your case.

    A property owner is responsible for keeping his property reasonably safe for visitors. When a property owner carelessly hurts someone by creating a hazardous condition, allowing a dangerous condition to exist when he discovered it or should have discovered it, or not warning visitors of the dangerous condition, the hurt person is entitled to compensation for their harm and loss.

    At Holland & Usry, we will thoroughly investigate the cause and extent of your injuries to maximize your compensation caused by unsafe conditions like:

    • trip and falls
    • slip and falls
    • falling merchandise
    • dog attacks.

    If you or a loved one is seriously injured in a slip or trip and fall, call the Spartanburg slip and fall/trip and fall lawyers at Holland & Usry at 582-0416 for a free consultation to discuss your case.

    The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation law requires employers with a minimum number of employees to provide workers’ compensation benefits for their workers who are hurt on the job. The benefits are usually paid from the employer’s insurance company, not the employer directly. Workers’ compensation provides injured employees with 3 main benefits:

    1. Payment for reasonable and necessary medical care for the
        injury;
    2. Lost wage benefits, equal to the average of 2/3 of wages just
        before the injury;and
    3. Compensation for permanent injury or impairment.

    Workers’ compensation is a “no-fault” system, meaning it provides benefits regardless of whose fault it was the employee was injured. The trade-off for the no-fault system is employees cannot sue their employer for work injuries even if their employer is wholly at fault for the injury. However, if a party not employed by the employer causes or contributes to the injury, an injured employee may also be able to make a claim against that party to recover damages in a personal injury claim in addition to obtaining workers’ compensation benefits.

    Workers’ compensation is designed to provide benefits swiftly and easily to injured workers, but it doesn’t always work that way, especially when severe injuries are involved. At Holland & Usry, we vigilantly protect injured workers’ rights to the full benefits they deserve. We will thoroughly present the extent of your injuries to maximize your compensation. We will also investigate any potential claim against third parties who cause or contribute to the injuries to further maximize compensation.

    If you or a loved one is hurt on the job, call the Spartanburg workers compensation lawyers at Holland & Usry at 582-0416 for a free consultation to discuss your case.

    When you’re charged with a crime, you face the seemingly overwhelming power of the State or Federal government to accuse and condemn. And even a conviction for the slightest crimes, like DUI/DUAC or shoplifting, can leave a stain on your public criminal record that taints you with a lifelong stigma. At Holland & Usry, we know that when the State points the finger at you, it’s not just your reputation on the line- criminal charges can jeopardize your job, your family, and your freedom. We stand between you and the government to fight to preserve what’s important to you.

    The Spartanburg criminal defense lawyers at Holland & Usry will develop a defense for you with a thorough investigation to be sure your side of the story is told, be it to win at trial, obtain a dismissal, or secure the best possible sentence for you. We will listen intently to you, contact favorable witnesses, and carefully review police reports and the government’s evidence against you with a single goal in mind: to build a defense that defeats or cripples the government’s case to get you the best possible outcome in your case.

    Even where the government’s case is airtight, there are alternatives to jail. At Holland & Usry, we work hard to keep our clients out of jail. We have helped many first-time offenders avoid conviction by persuading the government to allow them into Pre-Trial Intervention. We have ended some very serious criminal charges without a conviction by persuading the government to allow clients who met specific requirements into a rigorous Drug Court program. If no other alternatives are available, we fight to get you a sentenced to a fine and/or probation. If a guilty plea is your best option, we will work with you to diligently gather witnesses and evidence to present to the judge at the hearing to justify the most lenient sentence possible.

    We defend folks accused of State and Federal misdemeanor and felony charges, including:

    • DUI, DUAC, Felony DUI, and Reckless Homicide
    • Drug charges
    • Violent crimes-assault and battery,
       attempted murder, murder
    • Theft- shoplifting, larceny, burglary
    • Fraud and white collar crimes
    • Sex offenses- rape, criminal sexual conduct, lewd act
    • Juvenile crimes

    If you’re charged with a crime, don’t stand alone. Call the Spartanburg County criminal defense lawyers at Holland & Usry at 864-582-0416 for a free consultation.