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Six People Injured in Anderson County: Minimum Automobile Insurance Review

By Trey Mills on August 20, 2012

The minimum limits for automobile insurance in the state of South Carolina are $25,000.00 per person for bodily injury, $50,000.00 for all persons per accident in bodily injury, and $25,000.00 per accident in property damage. (Current through the date of this blog post). Every driver must carry liability coverage for harm, or injury, they may…

Ndamukong Suh Tackles Motor Vehicle Collision 101

By Trey Mills on December 6, 2011

Posted in Automobile Insurance

The popular Detroit Lions football player was enjoying some "off" time during his recent two (2) game suspension for allegedly kicking a player while he was down and now has jumped right into personal injury law.

Apparently this past weekend in Portland, Oregon, a boy named "Suh" was driving his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle muscle…

Why Is It Important to Report a Wreck to the Highway Patrol or Local Police?

By Trey Mills on September 21, 2011

Posted in Automobile Insurance

First and foremost for accountability when it comes time to be reimbursed for your property damage or personal injuries. Yes, this essentially equates to insurance purposes. The person that causes the collision may be apologetic and a "really nice person" at the scene but a couple days later have a change of heart and…

Dumb Driver News: South Carolina Motorcyclist Hit Twice: At Fault Driver Calls Boyfriend Before 911

By Trey Mills on July 8, 2011

Posted in Automobile Insurance

Recently, one of my clients had the misfortune of being in oncoming traffic while a young girl was talking on her cellphone with her boyfriend. The young girl veered into oncoming traffic and struck my client.

When she got out of the car to check on my client, he begged her to call 911 because…

Will South Carolina Insured Drivers Benefit from New Technology Focused on Adjusting Premiums?

By Trey Mills on June 6, 2011

Posted in Automobile Insurance

An article in Fast Company magazine by Malia Wollan entitled "Progressive Uses New Driver-Focused Technology to Determine Insurance Rates" initiated my contemplation into the vast depths insurance companies will begin to delve in an effort to enrich their already unfathomable net profit.

The article describes a palm sized device named "Snapshot" that is set up…

Colossus Saves Allstate Billions in Handling Automobile Accident Claims: So What’s $10 Million?

By Trey Mills on October 20, 2010

Posted in Automobile Insurance

Allstate, the evil empire, is the worst insurance company anyone could have for automobile insurance coverage. They are even worse when you are injured or harmed by one of their negligent insureds traveling on the roadways in South Carolina. They have spent good money on formulating software that helps minimize the human interaction in…

Pedestrians and Motor Vehicle Accidents in South Carolina

By Trey Mills on September 2, 2010

Posted in Automobile Insurance

The Anderson Independent Mail reported that a young girl was struck and injured by a vehicle yesterday in Anderson County. Reportedly, there was a school bus in the area and she darted out across the road.

A pedestrian, or any person on foot, has duties just like those driving motor vehicles to be responsible…

Allstate Makes Me an Offer I Can’t Refuse

By Trey Mills on April 1, 2010

Posted in Automobile Insurance

It appears the behemoth insurance company, Allstate, does have some type of consumer conscious after all. Through my repeated articles denouncing the insurance company for their unprofessional and unethical claims handling:

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Why is the Insurance Company Not Named as the Defendant in the Lawsuit?

By Trey Mills on January 18, 2010

Posted in Automobile Insurance, Insurance

I had a good question today by a reader that inquired as to why he had to file suit against the person that harmed him without putting down the insurance company that he had been dealing with. That is an excellent question and presents so many layers of legal analysis that I am merely going…

South Carolina Property Arbitration for Depreciation, Loss of Use, & Actual Damages

By Trey Mills on December 1, 2009

Posted in Automobile Insurance

I have always threatened to take an insurance company to arbitration over their ridiculous offers but never had a client that could afford to take the time and roll the dice on a Battle Royal. Ask and you shall receive. *(see a recent update on this article at the bottom).

Today, I partook in my…

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Floyd S. “Trey” Mills III knows that suffering a personal injury through no fault of your own can be a nightmare for the victim and…

Floyd S. “Trey” Mills III knows that suffering a personal injury through no fault of your own can be a nightmare for the victim and his or her family

Mr. Mills was born on April 24, 1978. His parents, Floyd S. “Butch” Mills, Jr. and Patricia Yarborough Mills, were originally from Newberry, South Carolina, and soon after the birth of Mr. Mills, his parents brought him back to be raised in the same county they grew up in.

Education

Mr. Mills attended Newberry Academy from grades K-3, Gallman Elementary 4th grade, Rikard Elementary 5-6th grade, Mid-Carolina Middle School 7-8th grades, Mid-Carolina High School from 9-12th grades, Clemson University, and Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University.

Health Crisis

While Mr. Mills was a junior in high school he was chosen by his school to be a representative to Boys State. This was a great honor and would have been an even better experience except, while at Boys State, Mr. Mills became unusually ill with blackouts, night sweats, and back pain. Fortunately for Mr. Mills, his mother was an ER nurse at Lexington Medical Center, but unfortunately, for Mr. Mills that did not change his diagnosis of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. Along with his diagnosis, Mr. Mills received a prognosis of two weeks.

Obviously, Mr. Mills has been blessed with his second chance at life and those who have been wronged by health care insurance companies and other types of insurance companies can feel confident in knowing that Mr. Mills can not only empathize with them but fight fervently for their side. Mr. Mills’ cancer experience and his mother’s arduous yet unsuccessful battle against lung cancer were very trying times. However, those real-world battles and experiences were nothing compared to the administrative and billing wars he had to encounter with Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance. It seems BCBS would deny any charge over $1,000 without rational reasoning therefore prompting Mr. Mills to go to law school and carry the torch for those that were too ill to fight for themselves while the school yard bully beat them down.

College

Mr. Mills went on to Clemson University where he was very active in student activities along with academic accomplishments. Mr. Mills was invited to join Calhoun Honor’s College, Sigma Pi fraternity, Golden Key National Honor Society, Student Government, IPTAY Student Advisory Board, and Tiger Brotherhood. Mr. Mills also worked as a student employee with IPTAY Scholarship Fund under the direction of Bert Henderson, formerly the Associate Athletic Director of Planned Giving at Clemson University.

Early Life

Mr. Mills was unsure of where his hard work and life experiences would best provide an adequate return to the outpouring of kindness he received during his cancer experience. Having received many blessings from the American Red Cross, Mr. Mills went on to be an Apheresis Donor Recruiter under the supervision of Barry Pollard at the American Red Cross Blood Donor Services in Columbia, SC after graduating Clemson University.

Running from his true calling, Mr. Mills fled to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico to Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Having spent a semester of college in Madrid, Spain, Mr. Mills thought he should be assisting foreign countries. Mr. Mills was certified by the Vancouver Language Centre in Guadalajara for his TEFL training. Mr. Mills was in Guadalajara only a few months when September 11, 2001 occurred and helped him focus on his life priorities.

Law School

Mr. Mills went on to law school at Mercer University and clerked each summer trying to determine how he could best serve those less fortunate. The corporate law firms never truly provided him with that personal feeling of assisting the common person in need. It wasn’t until Mr. Mills became the first law clerk of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association under the supervision of Linda Franklin and lobbyist Michael Gunn that he realized where his education, life experience, drive, and hard work could truly benefit those who have been personally and directly affected by the negligence of another. Mr. Mills wanted to be a coveted and much needed plaintiff’s trial attorney. More importantly Mr. Mills realized the power of the faceless insurance companies, misinformed legislative members, and the true power of money and lobbyist in dictating laws.

What’s the one service you pay for all your life but you are actually penalized if you ever have to use it? Insurance.

Trammell & Mills

Mr. Ernie Trammell gave Mr. Mills his big break at leveling the playing field against the faceless and heartless insurance companies. Mr. Mills works tirelessly every day in an effort to bring justice to those who have been wronged. Mr. Mills has worked on both sides of the law and has been through some harrowing life experiences. Mr. Mills has been tested and tried by many of the more traumatic events that life has to offer and now provides his services to the public.

Who would you rather have on your side? Someone whose resolve has been tested and tried? Or someone who has intertwined their morality and greed in such a way that they can’t tell one from the other?

Why haven’t you hired Mr. Mills to be your attorney yet?

Would you listen to the devil on how to get to Heaven? Then why listen to insurance adjusters?

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Automobile Insurance

Six People Injured in Anderson County: Minimum Automobile Insurance Review

Ndamukong Suh Tackles Motor Vehicle Collision 101

Why Is It Important to Report a Wreck to the Highway Patrol or Local Police?

Dumb Driver News: South Carolina Motorcyclist Hit Twice: At Fault Driver Calls Boyfriend Before 911

Will South Carolina Insured Drivers Benefit from New Technology Focused on Adjusting Premiums?

Colossus Saves Allstate Billions in Handling Automobile Accident Claims: So What’s $10 Million?

Pedestrians and Motor Vehicle Accidents in South Carolina

Allstate Makes Me an Offer I Can’t Refuse

Why is the Insurance Company Not Named as the Defendant in the Lawsuit?

South Carolina Property Arbitration for Depreciation, Loss of Use, & Actual Damages

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