South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The General Assembly did not define “product” in its products liability statute, and the South Carolina courts have not yet confronted the issue presented by plaintiff: whether the combination of plywood and its container – neither of which was ...

Where a woman died more than one month after taking prescription medication intended for another customer that was mistakenly delivered to her house, her estate could pursue claims of negligence against the pharmacy that prescribed the medication and the delivery ...

A subcontractor that alleged a prime contractor for the Air Force conspired with another company to deprive it of work failed to establish tortious interference and aiding and abetting claims. The case was remanded. Background In 2004, the Air Force ...

Although an employee was injured on a bridge spanning navigable waters, the location of the injury was insufficient to trigger coverage under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, or LHWCA. Background Kenneth Muhammad, a railroad employee, was injured while ...

Although the allegedly defective product was shipped to Amazon’s warehouse before being shipped to the customer, because title to the product was never transferred to Amazon, and all other evidence indicated another party remained the seller, Amazon could not be ...

While the malicious filing of a notice of lis pendens might serve as the primary basis for a malicious prosecution claim, the party bringing the malicious prosecution claim must establish not only a removal of the lis pendens, but also ...

An assistant public defender has made out a claim under the First Amendment where he was fired, allegedly because he spoke out publicly about perceived prosecutorial misconduct. The court grants in part and denies in part defendants’ motion for summary ...

A jury will decide if a financial advisor was negligent in advising certain clients about inherited annuities, or if the clients were themselves negligent, which would bar recovery. The district court had concluded the clients were negligent as a matter ...

Even though plaintiff’s decedent went to a VA doctor because he was suicidal, and even though plaintiff characterizes her decedent’s death as “suicide by cop,” plaintiff has failed to show that the doctor’s treatment of the decedent was the proximate ...

The court declines to impose liability for false imprisonment on a witness who merely cooperated with a law enforcement investigation. The circuit court granted summary judgment for the defendant-victim and the defendant-witness, and the Court of Appeals reversed. We affirm ...