Enter your details below to estimate what your personal injury claim in South Carolina may be worth — incorporating local South Carolina negligence laws, statutes of limitations, and damage caps.
If you were injured in South Carolina (in cities like Charleston, Columbia, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant), your claim is governed by local statutes and fault rules:
This estimator uses the standard "Multiplier Method" used by insurance adjusters and personal injury attorneys. We take your hard economic losses (medical bills and lost wages) and multiply them by a factor of 1.5 to 5 based on the severity of your injury and the clarity of liability.
Under South Carolina law, the statute of limitations for personal injury claims is 3 years. If you do not file a lawsuit within this time period, you will lose your right to seek compensation.
South Carolina operates under a 51% modified comparative negligence rule. You can recover damages if your fault is 50% or less.
South Carolina has no general caps on compensatory damages in personal injury cases. Medical malpractice non-economic damages are capped at $350,000 per defendant, with a total cap of $1.05 million.