South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A teenager who was injured when he was rear-ended by a dump truck driver and then hit head-on by another dump truck driver has settled his claims for a total of $1.275 million, his attorneys report. Taylor Powell and Ellis ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Wreck

Marion County has reached a $425,000 settlement with the family of a man who died of a heart attack after the EMS workers who responded to his 911 call turned around and left when no one answered their knocks on ...

Tagged with: Negligence

  A husband and wife who were severely injured in a drunk driving crash have confidentially settled claims against the driver and bar that overserved him for $1.1 million, their attorneys report. David Yarborough and Liam Duffy of Yarborough Applegate ...

Tagged with: Dram shop

  A railroad worker who was crushed by a rail car has settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the railway owner for $6 million, his attorneys report. David Yarborough and Perry Buckner Jr. of Yarborough Applegate in Charleston report that their ...

Tagged with: Federal Employers Liability Act

  A man who was almost blinded after a refrigeration system malfunctioned and sprayed fluids in his face has confidentially settled a claim against the system’s installer for $4.1 million, his attorneys report. Wayne Ridgeway and Hank Burriss of Burriss ...

Tagged with: Product Liability

  A man who was injured after another driver rear-ended his vehicle has settled claims with two insurers for $1.3 million, his attorneys report. John White Jr. and Ryan McCarty of Harrison White in Spartanburg report that the client, whose ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  The South Carolina Department of Transportation has paid $3.25 million to settle an eminent domain claim with property developers after it installed a median that limited access to an 80-acre tract in Berkeley County, the developers’ attorneys report. Richard ...

Tagged with: eminent domain

  The trouble between the 82-year-old husband and his 78-year-old wife had been brewing for a long time, but it finally hit its boiling point over a cup of coffee. The husband wanted a cup of coffee before they headed ...

Tagged with: Divorce

A roofer who was severely injured after he stepped on fragile skylight glass and fell 25 feet has settled a claim against the building’s owner for $6 million and settled a worker’s compensation claim for $2.5 million, his attorneys report. ...

Tagged with: premises liability

Two bars that overserved a patron who caused a fatal car crash have agreed to pay almost $5.4 million to the victims of the crash, the victims’ attorneys report. Chuck Dukes of RPWB in Mount Pleasant, Chris Moore and Terry ...

Tagged with: Dram shop