Spartanburg, South Carolina Lawyers
Practice Areas

Wrongful Death
Automobile/Truck/Motocycle Crashes
Defective Products and Drugs
Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse
Workers' Compensation

Wrongful Death  

  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 crash, 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, and funeral expenses, as well as 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, surgical, and hospital 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 Law Firm, 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.

Automobile/Truck/Motorcycle Crashes 

  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 South Carolinians than automotive crashes. In an automotive crash, 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.

  At Holland Law Firm, we help seriously injured victims of automotive crashes recover for their injuries. We know that recovering from the trauma of severe injuries is difficult 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 an automotive crash, Holland Law Firm 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.

Defective Products and Drugs  

  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. For example, recent events demonstrate that some drug companies have rushed their products into the market and pushed them on consumers without properly testing the drug to discover risks associated with its use or adequately informing consumers of the risks of use.

  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 Law Firm, 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 us to discuss your case.

Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse  

  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 in part 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 of this misconduct, nursing home residents suffer injuries including amputations, bedsores, falls, broken bones, malnutrition, dehydration, excessive physical restraints, overmedication, and even wrongful death.

  At Holland Law Firm, we pride ourselves in vindicating the rights of victims of nursing home neglect and 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.

Workers’ Compensation

  The South CarolinaWorkers’ 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. Benefits for permanent injury or impairment.

  Workers’ compensation is a “no-fault” system, meaning it provides benefits regardless of whose fault it was that 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 Law Firm, we vigilantly protect injured workers’ rights to the full benefits they deserve. We will also investigate any potential claim against third parties who cause or contribute to the injuries to further maximize recovery.