South Carolina Medicare Hospital Ratings

07/03/19 | Medical Malpractice
Choosing the best hospital for you is an important decision, but it can be difficult. Sometimes you simply go to the hospital closest to you, the one that specializes in your medical condition, the one that accepts your insur...Read More

South Carolina Doctors Who Receive Drug Company Money

07/09/15 | Medical Malpractice
by Nathan Hughey South Carolina Doctors Receive Money from Drug Companies.  Per ProPublica, this is a list of the top drug money recipients in South Carolina from 2013-2014.  According to ProPublica, over 10,000 South Carol...Read More

Negligent Security Lawsuit – Sexual Assault Lawsuit Filed by College Students – Attorney Nathan Hughey

11/04/13 | Abuse and Neglect, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries, Settlements
Federal lawsuit filed alleging sexual assault, inadequate security.  We have a #premisesliability lawsuit now alleging wrongful death as a result of inadequate security and have handled several others. Four Students File F...Read More

Elderly, At Risk, and Haphazardly Protected – PBS Frontline – Assisted Living Lawyer Nathan Hughey

11/04/13 | Abuse and Neglect, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries
Elderly, At Risk, and Haphazardly Protected by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Jonathan Jones, Special to ProPublica, Oct. 29, 2013, 10:56 a.m. A version of this story was co-published by “Frontline.” Workers found...Read More

How to Bust the Caps – Avoiding Tort Reform Damages Caps – Hughey Law Firm Injury Laywers

10/16/13 | Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries, Settlements
South Carolina has limitations on what an injured person can recover in certain types of lawsuits covered by our tort reform statutes.  Recovery is not limited, however, to those amounts.  Contact a South Carolina injury la...Read More

$1.9 Million Verdict in South Carolina on Medical Malpractice Case Yesterday – Hughey Law Firm Injury Blog

10/11/13 | Abuse and Neglect, Medical Malpractice, Settlements
The verdict was for $1,250,000.00 in non-economic damages, and $704,000.00 in economic damages.  This highlights the fact that South Carolina’s tort reform caps do not apply in a case where the jury finds reckless cond...Read More

Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer Nathan Hughey

07/24/13 | Auto Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries, Workers' Comp
South Carolina brain injury lawyer Nathan Hughey has handled cases involving traumatic brain injuries to clients.  These include fractured skull lawsuits, head injury claims, brain injury settlements, and others. PSYCHIATRY:...Read More

SC Hospital Malpractice Lawyer Nathan Hughey – South Carolina Medical Malpractice Attorneys Hughey Law Firm

07/23/13 | Auto Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries, Uncategorized, Workers' Comp
South Carolina hospital negligence attorney Nathan Hughey handles claims including hospital falls, hospital malpractice, ER negligence, South Carolina hospital wrongful death claims and other similar matters.  Contact SC mal...Read More

SC Malpractice Attorneys – Hughey Law Firm – Supreme Court Issues Tort Reform Ruling

07/09/13 | Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries
The South Carolina Supreme Court issued a ruling affecting South Carolina malpractice lawyers such as Nathan Hughey and Hughey Law Firm on July 8, 2013 in the case of Ross v. Waccamaw.  In that case, the Supreme Court addres...Read More

Tort Reform in South Carolina Part 1: The Damages Caps Associated with Tort Reform in South Carolina

04/10/13 | Auto Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries, Uncategorized, Workers' Comp
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 re...Read More

Defamation

04/10/13 | Auto Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injuries, Uncategorized, Workers' Comp
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 ...Read More