South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Capital City Real Estate LLC v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-103-15, 20 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 14-1239, June 10, 2015; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Garbis, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A trial court erred in granting summary ...

Tagged with: CGL

Founders Insurance Co. v. Hamilton (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-108-15, 7 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 5:15-cv-00408; D.S.C. Holding: In a declaratory judgment action – brought by an insurer to determine whether or not its liquor liability policy obligates it to ...

Tagged with: Exclusion

Dash v. Selective Insurance Co. of South Carolina (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-094-15, 6 pp.) (J. Michele Childs, J.) 5:12-cv-02732; D.S.C. Holding: Although the defendant-insurer argues there is no evidence of any refusal by defendant to pay for repairs or replacements ...

Tagged with: homeowner’s insurance

Centennial Casualty Co. v. Western Surety Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-053-15, 4 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Charleston County Circuit Court (J. C. Nicholson Jr., J.) On writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. S.C. S. Ct. Holding: The ...

Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. v. Lewis (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-085-15, 19 pp.) (Patrick Michael Duffy, J.) 2:13-cv-00920; D.S.C. Holding: An insurance company has a duty to defend and indemnify its insureds – a limited liability company and its ...

Williams v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, PA (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-071-15, 15 pp.) (Bruce Howe Hendricks, J.) 6:14-cv-00870; D.S.C. Holding: A 2004 letter – informing plaintiff that the holder of his disability insurance policy was “AIG Group ...

Tagged with: RICO

Vanderhall v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-066-15, 9 pp.) (Richard Mark Gergel, J.) 4:14-cv-00518; D.S.C. Holding: Even though plaintiff’s mother says he is mildly retarded and that she always acts as his guardian, no court ...

Tagged with: Bad Faith

Capitol Specialty Insurance Corp. v. Ellis Wise Landscaping, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-055-15, 12 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 8:14-cv-00255; D.S.C. Holding: The court cannot determine from the record whether casual employee Dawkins’ employment was within the course of the ...

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Winburn v. Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-026-15, 31 pp. (R. Bryan Harwell, J.) 4:11-cv-03527; D.S.C. Holding: Even if, in the year plaintiff signed her husband up for accidental death and dismemberment insurance, the summary plan description (SPD) ...

Tagged with: ERISA

Regions Bank v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-022-15, 23 pp.) (R. Bryan Harwell, J.) 4:12-cv-00195; D.S.C. Holding: Even though a North Myrtle Beach property was not included in the title insurance policy issued by the defendant-carrier to ...

Tagged with: title insurance