About Mark Watkins
Mark Watkins is a Rock Hill, South Carolina, native serving clients at Joye Law Firm Injury Lawyers' Myrtle Beach office. His practice focuses on workers' compensation and civil plaintiffs' law, including auto accidents, animal attacks, and injuries caused by negligent property owners. He earned his undergraduate degree from Coastal Carolina University and his law degree from Charleston School of Law. After graduation he clerked for the Honorable Jocelyn Newman and practiced education and employment law at a defense firm before transitioning to representing plaintiffs, and he is admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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.
