About Drake Thompson
Drake Thompson is a personal injury and workers' compensation attorney at Joye Law Firm Injury Lawyers' Greenville office. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Clemson University and his law degree from the University of South Carolina's Joseph F. Rice School of Law. He handles car accidents, workplace injuries, and other serious personal injury matters throughout South Carolina. His approach to client work is centered on teamwork, guidance, and empathy, aiming to make clear to clients that they are not going through a difficult time alone.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Joye Law Firm Injury Lawyers
These results are credited to Joye Law Firm Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A federal jury awarded $262.5 million after finding that a defective rear liftgate latch on a 1985 Dodge Caravan caused a six-year-old boy to be ejected and killed in a 1994 crash; the punitive damages were later reversed on appeal and the case settled confidentially in 2001.
A federal jury awarded $17 million to the surviving relatives of a Canadian Army private, his wife, and their infant son killed when an XPO Express 18-wheeler plowed into slowed construction-zone traffic on Interstate 95 near Florence, South Carolina.
A Berkeley County apartment complex that failed to equip its pool gates with code-required latching hardware settled the wrongful death claim of a three-year-old boy's family for six million dollars.
Joye Law Firm recovered $5 million for the estate of a Goodwill custodian killed when a terminal tractor with broken headlights made an illegal U-turn and struck her in a Joint Base Charleston parking lot.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
