South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Where the estate of a man killed in a trucking crash settled the case for $800,000, nearly half that amount—recovered from others involved in the incident—is to be set off against the full amount of the settlement rather than ...

Tagged with: liability

  A Richland County jury has awarded $50,000 to an Aiken County woman injured in a 2016 interstate crash–more than twice what the insurer offered, according to her attorneys. Janice Wright was traveling south on I-77 near Columbia in July ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury

  Recent changes in the military retirement system might call for legal professionals to familiarize themselves with the new standard operating procedures. One of those changes, perhaps the most significant to family law attorneys—especially those who practice in “military towns”—is ...

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A government contractor who developed a chronic pain condition after a slip and fall has agreed to settle his workers’ compensation case for more than $1 million, according to his attorney. Attorney Gary Christmas of Howell & Christmas Injury Lawyers ...

Tagged with: Workers' Compensation

  The South Carolina Insurance Reserve Fund will pay $600,000 to settle the excessive force case of a mentally ill man shot in his garage by an Anderson County deputy, his attorneys have reported. According to Wes Few of Greenville, ...

Tagged with: Excessive Force

  While Rule 11 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure does not contain a time limit for filing a motion for sanctions and state appellate courts have not interpreted it to include a specific time limit, the law ...

Tagged with: Rule 11

  The family of a man who died after being ejected from a vehicle being driven by a drunken driver has settled their dram shop claims against two Columbia bar for $1.625 million, their attorneys report. According to David Lail ...

Tagged with: Dram shop

A Richland County jury has ordered the brother of South Carolina’s governor to pay $100,000 to a waiter he assaulted in 2014. George McMaster, brother of Gov. Henry McMaster, was charged criminally in a May 2014 incident in which Joshua ...

Tagged with: assault and battery

  A South Carolina deputy who was fired after pulling a high school student from her desk and dragging her across the floor sued his former employer for wrongful discharge, arguing that the firing violated public policy. On Aug. 22, ...

Tagged with: Deputies

  The doctrine of mutual combat may have fallen out of common use in South Carolina, but it can still be used as the basis for a murder charge, the state Court of Appeals has ruled. On Aug. 22 a ...

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