The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce recently released the 2016 workers’ compensation rates. According to Title 42 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, 1976, the maximum compensation rate per week is...
As a Charleston workers compensation lawyer who has been practicing for nearly twenty years, the key law that defines what an “employee” is in South Carolina is S.C. Code Ann. §42-1-130. Under the Act...
The South Carolina Supreme Court has recently held in two very important opinions that “fault” has no place in the South Carolina Workers Compensation Act. The two cases are Barnes v. Charter 1 Realty, and in the...
The workers’ compensation system as we know it today has not changed in ways that anyone would consider major since it was created over a century ago. Each year, states spend years trying to repair one area of the program...
Picture a surgery in your mind. Even if you haven’t gone under the knife yourself, chances are you have seen at least one episode of a medical drama on television. This has no doubt led you to picture a sterile operating...