Category Archives: Workers Compensation

South Carolina workers are getting a boost this week with a nation-wide campaign regarding work zone safety, as April 23-27 is National Work Zone Awareness Week. This week affects not just workers, but all communities as work zone fatalities occur on public roads and highways and often involve other motorists. Between 2005 and 2009, over 4,000 car accidents occurred in work zones and during this time, 42 workers were killed and 1,755 were injured. Not just a worker issue, the public must be aware of such dangers when they get behind the wheel. The goals of the Work Zone Awareness week were threefold: To increase public awareness of the need for greater caution and care while driving through work zones; To reduce fatalities and injuries in work zones; and To increase public sector, industry and worker awareness of the value of safety training and best practices regarding work zone safety….
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McGowan, Hood & Felder, LLC has handled numerous actions involving complex legal matters in South Carolina and outside the state.  Attorneys with McGowan, Hood and Felder, LLC have represented clients involving construction litigation, catastrophic injury, business litigation, class action and multi district litigation. What if you could spend a few moments thinking about drafting a complaint, and then, with a couple of keystrokes, find exactly the go-by you needed? What if your staff had time to “tag” every work product document with keywords? What if your computer silently, constantly, indexed your document files by keyword and by full text? And what if finding that elusive complaint were as easy as using Google? Chances are, you would be working for a large firm with unlimited resources. What if you feel like you do not have the time to learn about expensive programs and acronyms like DM, KM, and CRM. So what if…
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