OUR NAME HAS CHANGED
In February 2001 the Law Offices of Frederick I. Hall, III, P.A. and the Law Offices of Daniell S. Landers, P.C. formed the new legal entity of Hall & Landers, LLC. While the name has changed, we believe that the ability to deliver you quality legal services has been enhanced. Hall & Landers, LLC has as its focus the practice of personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice and workers' compensation law. Frederick I. Hall, III, P.A. will continue to deliver the quality legal services it has always done, with its practice now being limited to real estate. Rick and Dan graduated from the same law school, Mercer University, in Macon, Georgia and as classmates kept in touch with each other through the years. This eventually resulted in Dan's recent move to Columbia, South Carolina in order to form Hall & Landers, LLC. Rick's private practice experience has been limited primarily to civil and criminal litigation and real estate with an emphasis in personal injury and workers' compensation law, including third party product liability claims and medical negligence. From 1982 to 1993, Dan was a member and founding partner in Dillard & Landers in Waycross, Georgia where he practiced civil litigation focusing on the defense of tort cases, insurance coverage issues, civil rights and workers' compensation. Since 1993, Dan's practice has focused on representing Plaintiffs for a variety of claims, including personal injury, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, product liability, wrongful death, and auto and trucking accidents. Mr. Landers also served as a special assistant to the attorney general for the State of Georgia from 1993 to 2000 in civil rights litigation and served as a mediator selected by other attorneys in the private mediation of tort cases. Darcy Templeton joined the Law Offices of Frederick I. Hall, III, P.A. as an associate in February of 2000, prior to the formation of Hall and Landers, LLC. She is delighted to be part of the new firm. Her primary work emphasis is workers' compensation, personal injury, and general civil litigation. Her work also includes trial preparation and appellate work.
Since I've been injured I haven't been able to... Run marathons like I used to? Putter around in my garden? Sound familiar? If you have been injured, chances are good that your life activities have already been affected in some way. Your injury may keep you from doing the things you love. Can you put a price on your limitations? The South Carolina Supreme Court says "yes". Can a lawyer help you recover for these limitations? Absolutely. Until very recently, a person who was injured could only recover for these limitations (often referred to as "loss of enjoyment of life") by claiming that it was part of the "pain and suffering" that they had endured as the result of their injury. There had been no way for a person whose life activities had been altered to recover specifically for their loss of enjoyment of that particular activity. In 2001, the South Carolina Supreme Court changed the law in South Carolina. In the case of Boan v. Blackwell, 343 S.C. 498, 541 S.E.2d 498 (2001), the Court held that "loss of enjoyment of life" and "pain and suffering" are separately compensable elements of damages. So what does this mean for you? It means that you can be compensated by the at-fault party for both the pain you endure as the result of your injury and for the value of the activities which you may no longer be able to enjoy. While it seems like it would be difficult, if not impossible, to place a value on the things you like to do but can no longer do, it is something that can be done, and is done by lawyers on a regular basis. Of course, we would rather you be able to do the things you enjoy. When that's not possible, however, we can try to help you be compensated for your loss of ability to do those things.
