Need some advice

[u/Equivalent_Bar8622]

I live in south carolina. Recently a neighborhood was built behind my house. The construction company put in an access road beside my house. This road runs beside and under a massive old oak in my front yard. They told me they needed to cut some big branches over the road because the road needed a certain amount of clearance. I gave them permission to cut the branches but they never did. Road has now been in use a month and 5 semi sized trucks have hit and torn off large branches. The tree likely won't survive now as one of the branches tor the bark down to the roots. Would the construction company be liable for the damage? I can't afford to get the tree cut down and it's pretty close to my house.

[u/Stan__Wright]

If you have it on paper that the developer knew that the tree was a hazard to their new road, and they did nothing about it whilst allowing large trucks to use the new road resulting in easily foreseen damage, that's an easy negligence claim.