Daniel R Denton, PC - Lowcountry Injury Law
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Over 25 years experience fighting for injured victims.
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Lowcountry Injury Law
1917 Lovejoy Street
Beaufort, SC 29902
Lowcountry Injury Law
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Beaufort SC Accident & Injury Law Firm representing seriously injured clients in Car/Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slip & Falls, Workers Compensation claims, Unsafe/Defective Products cases, Premises Liability and other types of accident and injury cases.
Our clients will always have aggressive and experienced representation and are given the personal attention deserved. They are kept well informed about the status of their case and their phone calls and e-mails are always answered.
Our Law Firm hates hates to lose and rarely does. For a partial record of our law firm’s verdicts & settlements, go to our Website at LowcountryLaw.com and click "Case Results."
Senior Attorney Dan Denton, of Lowcountry Injury Law, is a certified Life Member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a prestigious group of American Trial Lawyers which designates its members as among “The Top Trial Lawyers in America.™ ” He is also a Certified Mediator and is usually able to successfully settle cases without the delays and costs of a trial. But if the insurance companies and their lawyers refuse to pay fair compensation for your injuries and all related losses, then Mr. Denton will take your case to court - and they know it.
Attorney’s fees are contingent upon, and we are only paid if there is a successful settlement or verdict in your case.
Case History
Premises Liability – Slip & Fall at Workplace.
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Description: Client managed a Lillian Vernon store in a new shopping center in Bluffton, SC. The electrical sub-contractor left a grounding rod exposed 5 inches above the sidewalk behind the store where employees take boxes to a nearby box crusher. At dusk, client was pushing a loaded cart on the sidewalk and tripped on the rod and fell, resulting in cervical disc herniations and right shoulder rotator cuff injuries. She required surgeries,resulting in chronic neck pain and right arm pain and numbness. She became totally disabled and required the use of a morphine pain pump. The case was complicated by the fact that client had a previous neck injury requiring surgery 4 years before the accident (but she had an excellent recovery) and she was in two auto accidents during the year after the trip/fall. David H. Berry, Esquire, Hilton Head, SC, was co-counsel.
Outcome: $5,981,690.00 jury verdict, reduced to $3,589,014.00 due to Plaintiff’s comparative negligence of 40%. Additionally, a workers’ compensation lien was negotiated and client will have life-time medical benefits.
Car Accident - Wrongful Death
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Description: A young single adult was invited to visit his friend at the friend’s parent’s house, who were away, and they started drinking in early evening and both became intoxicated. The host-driver invited his guest to ride in his car to go to a store a few miles away. On the return trip, the driver was speeding and lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a tree, killing his passenger-guest upon impact. Since the driver’s car was provided to him by his father, who retained title, the defense conceded that the Family Purpose Doctrine applied (exposing the father’s assets and provided additional insurance coverage). Assumption of the risk was a troubling issue, but we argued that the driver had an enhanced duty of care as the host-driver (as in Dram Shop cases). The parents of the decedent asserted a claim for the wrongful death of their child against the driver and his father
Outcome: In a pre-suit mediation, conducted by former S.C. Court of Appeals Judge, Bill Howard, the case settled for $1 million. At mediation we employed various methods to portray the circumstances of the wreck, the life of the deceased and the nature of the loss to the parents, including the use of Google Earth and its mapping technology to create a “fly over” streetscape view of the road traveled before the collision and the intersection where the impact occurred, in combination with scene photos taken soon after the tragic car accident. We also used Power Point presentations with photos and videos with sound tracks incorporating some of the extensive forensic evidence that we obtained from the Highway Patrol investigators.
Slip and Fall Entering Building
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Description: A 43 year old female employee of a Hilton Head time-share marketing company broke the upper part of her leg after tripping on an exterior landscape stairway while entering the building where she worked. The stairway, made with railroad ties, did not have a hand rail and violated several sections of the local building code and various industry building standards. Shortly after her surgery and discharge from the hospital, client was diagnosed with RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy), which caused chronic burning type pain and sensitivity to both of her legs. She became totally and permanently disabled and required intensive pain management. We sued the building owner, the management company and the original tenant that leased the offices to the Plaintiff’s employer. (We could not sue the employer due to immunity afforded by workers’ compensation law.) Co-counsel was David H. Berry, Esquire, Hilton Head, SC.
Outcome: $1,500,000.00 settlement at second mediation conference held one month before scheduled jury trial. A workers’ compensation lien was settled leaving client with life-time medical benefits. (Premises liability cases are high-risk cases and rarely settle for the full value of the damages.)
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Location : Beaufort, SC
Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, Auto Accident, Product Liability, Trucking Accident, Wrongful Death