Roden Law represents nursing home residents and their families in Charleston, South Carolina and throughout the Lowcountry — Mount Pleasant, Summerville, Goose Creek, and the surrounding communities. When a facility’s neglect or abuse harms a loved one, families deserve answers and accountability, and how the claim is framed can determine whether damage caps apply at all. We handle every case on a contingency fee basis: you pay nothing unless we win. Roden Law has recovered more than $300 million for injured clients across Georgia and South Carolina and holds a 4.9-star average from hundreds of client reviews. Call (843) 790-8999 for a free, confidential case review.
Why Choose Roden Law for a Charleston Nursing Home Abuse Claim
Facilities and their insurers move quickly to protect themselves — often invoking arbitration clauses buried in admission paperwork and characterizing every claim as medical malpractice to trigger the damage cap. What separates Roden Law is direct attorney involvement and careful pleading that preserves the theories which escape the cap. Our office at 127 King Street, Suite 200 sits downtown minutes from the Charleston County Circuit Court.
- No fee unless we win — free consultation and no out-of-pocket cost to investigate.
- We contest arbitration clauses — pre-dispute arbitration agreements in admission packets are routinely challenged.
- Cap-aware pleading — ordinary-negligence and intentional-tort theories can keep your case out from under the medical-malpractice cap.
Charleston Nursing Home Harms We Handle
The Lowcountry’s growing senior population fills a large number of long-term-care and assisted-living facilities, and the harms our attorneys see most include:
- Falls and fractures from inadequate supervision and unsafe conditions.
- Pressure ulcers (bedsores) caused by immobility and neglect.
- Malnutrition and dehydration from understaffing and inattention.
- Medication errors — wrong drug, wrong dose, or missed doses.
- Wandering and elopement when residents leave unsupervised.
- Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by staff or other residents.
South Carolina Nursing Home Law You Should Know
A nursing home claim can be built on several theories: ordinary negligence, professional (medical) negligence, statutory violations, and intentional torts such as battery or elder abuse. South Carolina’s Omnibus Adult Protection Act (S.C. Code § 43-35-5 et seq.) informs the standard of care owed to vulnerable adults. The framing matters: if a claim is characterized as medical malpractice, the non-economic damages cap under S.C. Code § 15-32-220 — roughly $596,001 per provider or institution and about $1,788,003 in aggregate as of 2026, adjusted annually — may apply. But ordinary-negligence and intentional-tort theories generally escape that cap, which is why the pleading decision is so important. The deadline is generally three years (S.C. Code § 15-3-530), and if a resident dies, wrongful-death and survival claims may arise. Learn more from our South Carolina comparative negligence guide, and if a loved one has died, our South Carolina wrongful death lawyers can help.
