South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A woman who broke her ankle after entering a lazy river at a Myrtle Beach resort is set to receive $775,000 in compensation for her injuries. According to court records, Patricia Holland was staying at the Dunes Village Resort in ...

Tagged with: liability

Allstate Insurance Co. had a duty to defend a swimmer from the University of Virginia in a lawsuit claiming he and four of his teammates forced a first-year swimmer to drink milk and prune juice until he vomited, a South ...

Tagged with: hazing

The owner of a tractor-trailer rig has agreed to pay a Dorchester County woman $550,000 for injuries she suffered after one of the truck’s wheels struck her. Connie Reyes was walking in the pedestrian lane of Ravenel Bridge on U.S. ...

Tagged with: auto accident

When you’re trying to decide who should pay for repairs to True Love, which set of laws should apply? OK, a few things here. The True Love is a sailboat owned by Francis McGowan, who brought it in to be ...

Tagged with: Admiralty

An additional insured under a commercial insurance policy can bring a bad faith claim against the carrier, a federal judge in Florence has ruled. South Carolina case law has long made it clear that when it comes to bad-faith litigation, ...

Tagged with: Insurance

Deposits and wire transfers made to a debtor’s bank accounts were not transfers that could be voided as fraudulent, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. In fact, the transactions weren’t transfers at all, the court said. Both ...

Tagged with: deposits

A Charleston County jury has slapped John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods with a $7.2 million verdict in a lawsuit that claimed 105 townhomes built by the company suffered from faulty construction and inferior craftsmanship. The jury returned the verdict on ...

Tagged with: Construction

Even though the Internal Revenue Service failed adequately to explain its decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the IRS’ rejection of $117.8 million in salary and wage deductions claimed by a defense contractor. QinetiQ U.S. Holdings ...

Tagged with: IRS

Attorneys who represent service industry employees are cheering a recent opinion out of the federal court in Charleston, which determined that tips qualify as wages under the South Carolina Payment of Wages Act. U.S. District Judge David Norton said there ...

Tagged with: Wages

Thousands of elderly homeowners in South Carolina might be entitled to receive property tax refunds under a new state Court of Appeals decision. In a Dec. 21 decision in Mead v. Beaufort County Assessor, the court embraced the idea that ...

Tagged with: property tax