After a sudden motorcycle accident disrupts your life, you may wonder if you should retain an attorney. Do not take this question lightly. You should always understand what’s at stake. A motorcycle crash and injuries can result in costly losses that continue to pile up over months or years. Without the right legal representation,…
The sudden and unforeseen loss of a loved one is a devastating event that no one should have to endure. On top of the immense grief, there’s also the issue of going through what is sometimes an incredibly complicated legal process. When a death occurs because of someone else’s negligence or misconduct, surviving family…
Between 1921 and 1923, the life expectancy rate dropped because of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Between 2020 and 2022, the life expectancy rate dropped almost as sharply, partially due to the coronavirus pandemic. Increased drug overdose deaths, mostly heroin and fentanyl, also contributed to the decline. Pain pill overuse, mostly because manufacturers made such…
Negligence or a defective product causes most of the unintentional deaths in the United States. These incidents claim about a quarter of a million lives per year. Negligence, which is basically a lack of care, causes most of these incidents. Car accidents, slips and falls, and assaults are the most common examples. Defective products,…
Life expectancy in the United States dropped 1.8 years in 2020, the largest single decrease since 1923, when the Spanish Flu pandemic raged across the country. Usually, no one is to blame for the start of epidemics like the Spanish Flu and coronavirus. However, property owners could be at least partially responsible for the…
The leading causes of accidental death in South Carolina, which are outlined below, are usually not “accidents.” Instead, negligence, or a lack of care, usually causes these incidents. People accidentally leave the lights on. They don’t accidentally speed excessively or drive drunk and cause fatal car wrecks. They also don’t accidentally fall off unsafe…