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Top South Carolina Personal Injury Attorney Gary Christmas Brings The Hopeful ...

Because of his unique, conversation starting last name, Gary Christmas says it took a while to even get a pizza delivered when he first moved from his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina to Charleston to start his own law firm.

Since the late 90s, when he and his partner Ladson F. Howell, Jr. launched their personal injury law firm, it's been Howell and Christmas year round for thousands of clients whose lives have been altered by everything from automobile and truck/semi-truck accidents to boating accidents, brain injuries, spinal injuries, drunk driving accidents, spinal injuries and sexual abuse.

With over 30 years of combined legal experience, the Charleston injury lawyers represent accident victims and injured workers. They are dedicated to protecting the rights of the injured and their families, including representing those injured on the job under the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Act, the Federal Longshoreman and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act and Defense Base Act. They also represent clients who have been hurt as a result of negligence by retail stores, bars, hotels, landlords and apartments, wrongful death and other cases where there are victims who suffer injuries caused by the negligence of others.

Christmas is a member of the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Education Association; the Workers' Compensation Section of the South Carolina Bar, where he is a council member; the Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG) where he serves on the State Legislative Committee and the South Carolina Injured Workers' Advocates ( IWA ) where he serves as Secretary of the organization and as Chairman of the Brief Bank Committee. He is a member of the American Association of Justice, the South Carolina Association of Justice, the United States Supreme Court Historical Society and the Small Business Chamber of Commerce.

He is a member of the South Carolina Bar and Charleston County Bar Associations and serves as a Mentor for the Lawyer Mentoring Pilot Program. He is also a Certified Circuit Court Mediator, has tried more than 200 cases, concentrating on legally complex issues, and has represented numerous clients in appellate practice including several appearances before the South Carolina Appeals Courts.

Columbia, SC Prescription Drug Injury Attorney | South Carolina ...

A distraught mother is suing the maker of Yaz birth control claiming her daughter died from a fatal blod clot she received after taking the birth control pill.

According to national news sources , the 18-year-old a freshman at Elon University in North Carolina, collapsed on her way to class last September.  The autopsy discovered that she had a fatal blood clot that lodged in her lung and caused her to suffer a heart attack.

Her mother says she believes that her daughter would be alive today if she had not been taking the birth control pill Yaz.  She said that the prescription drug ultimately caused the fatal clot. The teenager was taking the pills to help an acne problem.

The family is suing Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company that produces the drug, for wrongful death . The defective drug lawsuit states that Yaz, also known as drospirenone, violates North Carolina consumer protection laws and that the drug is dangerous.

This is not the first time that Yaz has been in the news for controversy.  The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is currently investigating the tragedy and looking into whether the drug should have stronger warning labels or whether the  drug should be pulled from the shelves.

Lawsuits have been filed against Bayer because of the serious health consequences that resulted from the use of the drug.

The list of health issues includes deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, stroke, cardiac arrest and even death.

Other health issues include allergic reactions, hives, rash, itching, breathing issues, chest tightening, irregular heartbeat, liver issues, severe vaginal bleeding, fatigue, vaginal discharge and blurred vision. Health issues that have purportedly been experienced even by healthy young women taking the oral contraceptive Yaz.

As we previously reported, the crux of the legal issues in many of these cases stem from the FDA finding of deceptive claims in advertisements for Yaz done by Wyeth. These include overstatement of the benefits of the drug and the fast moving, distracting information provided about potential life threatening effects of blood clots due to the drug during the commercial. The failure of the manufacturer to adequately advise users and practitioners of the possible adverse reactions are what makes the use of Yaz life threatening and hazardous.

 To obtain more information, contact one of the  defective drug lawyers at Strom Law Firm, LLC.

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