South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where plaintiffs’ counsel were awarded over $10 million in attorneys’ fees for their role in settling a class action arising out of Lumber Liquidators’ sale of allegedly defective flooring products, objectors failed to show that the award was excessive and ...

Even if (1) a drunk driver had consumed alcohol at work, (2) the defendant-employer knew she had done so, (3) the employer sent the intoxicated employee home, and (4) the employer refused a co-worker’s offer to drive the intoxicated employee ...

For five years, neither a landowner nor its shopkeeper-tenant warned of or attempted to remedy a trip hazard that their own safety expert identified at trial. As such, the landowner and shopkeeper were not without fault, so they were not ...

A truck driver’s previous drug charges and convictions do not indicate that his employer showed a reckless disregard for the rights of the plaintiff-motorcyclist, because there was nothing about the charges and convictions that indicated an increased likelihood that the ...

Where the plaintiff sued to recover paintings taken under duress by the Nazis following the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, the Ministry of Education, Culture & Science of the Netherlands was entitled to sovereign immunity under the Foreign ...

Where S.C. Code Ann. § 15-32-530(A) requires trial courts to reduce punitive damage awards in excess of “the greater of three times the amount of compensatory damages … or the sum of five hundred thousand dollars unless exempt under subsection ...

Based on allegations that he was sexually molested by defendant’s priests, plaintiff claims that defendant maintained conditions dangerous to children, an action sounding in premises liability. Since plaintiff was affiliated with defendant for religious purposes and entered its premises at ...

We improvidently granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision (There was no dispute as to the existence of a doctor-patient relationship or that the patient suffered injury as a result of going into cardiac arrest ...

Plaintiff alleges that defendants marketed to both patients and medical providers that defendants’ cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, was “safe” and “effective” in preventing cancer but failed to “include the complete array of risks associated with Gardasil.” Plaintiff alleges defendants’ representations ...

Even though there was evidence of the intertwining of the businesses of the two members of a limited liability company, since the plaintiff-homeowners’ association (HOA) did not show bad faith, abuse, fraud, wrongdoing or injustice resulting from the blurring of ...