South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A $2.5 million settlement has concluded the medical malpractice case of a man who claimed injury from late diagnosis of spinal abscesses.   “No staff had an explanation as to why the orders for the MRIs were discontinued the following day,” ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A police deputy will receive more than $1.4 million as part of a workers compensation settlement after a deadly traffic accident that occurred while he was helping a disabled vehicle about to be towed from a bridge.   “While he was ...

Tagged with: Workers’ Compensation

A district court has affirmed that a woman whose husband killed himself more than a year after a devastating car accident will indeed recover a seven-figure judgement against the automaker while another part of the groundbreaking liability suit heads back ...

Tagged with: Ford

An individual who lost part of their leg to an amputation in the wake of a rear-end collision in South Carolina will receive a $5.125 million settlement.   Attorney Chris Romeo of Thurmond Kirchner and Timbes said that a commercial vehicle ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Accident

The families of two road workers who died after being struck by a box truck will collect $10 million each as part of a settlement in the case.   According to Luke Rankin of Rankin & Rankin, which represented one of ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

What’s in a name?   For some amateur athletes, the answer may be defined in dollars and cents, thanks to court cases and legislative efforts that are fast changing the rules of the once-staid world of university athletics.   Last year’s U.S. ...

Tagged with: name image and likeness

Attorney Erik Syverson works hard at his job, but he is the first to admit that the research model for his Internet law and civil litigation practice doesn’t fit the shopworn image one might have for lawyerly investigation.   In fact, ...

Tagged with: Social Media

Jurors have ruled that a wholesale club was partially responsible for a million dollars in damages suffered by a Greenville County woman hurt by another customer’s cart because the shopping conveyance was stacked too high.   The matter was later settled.   ...

Tagged with: premises liability

A fatal car crash caused by a tractor trailer that had become stuck at an intersection has resulted in a $735,000 multiparty settlement for the estate of the husband and wife who were injured in the crash, the estate’s attorneys ...

Tagged with: Motor Vehicle Accident

Nerve damage that left a man unable to work in the wake of surgery to remove a cyst has resulted in a $1.75 million settlement, his attorneys report. Ryan Langley and Charles Hodge of Hodge & Langley Law Firm in ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice