South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where a jury awarded $22.35 million to a healthcare investor because he was defamed by a biotechnology company, but the jury did not receive evidence sufficient to support the award, the award was vacated and the case was remanded for ...

When 12-week-old Owen came to a hospital with two subdural hematomas, the Department of Social Services not only failed to notify law enforcement within the statutorily mandated 24 hours, but also downplayed the potential peril to Owen during communications with ...

Where Justin Fairfax, the Virginia lieutenant governor, failed to plead facts plausibly suggesting that CBS aired reports of two women who accused him of sexual assault with a “high degree of awareness” that he likely did not assault them, his ...

Where a torture victim failed to file suit within the 10-year statute of limitations of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, or TVPA, but his expert testified about chaos in Somalia after its dictator was defeated, and the danger ...

Where a high school student reported conduct that could be objectively understood as alleging sexual harassment to a school official with authority to address complaints of sexual harassment and to institute corrective measures, that establishes actual notice of such harassment ...

Where the decedent’s estate argued his suicide was the result of an earlier accident where he was injured by an allegedly defective airbag in his Ford vehicle, the trial court must consider whether the suicide was reasonably foreseeable. Background This ...

The Protection of Persons and Property Act (the Act) was intended to extend immunity from both criminal prosecution and civil actions to law-abiding citizens who were justified in their use of deadly force. Based on our Supreme Court’s interpretation of ...

The requirement that a plaintiff plead special damages in order to state a claim for civil conspiracy resulted from a misreading of our caselaw. Plaintiffs need no longer plead special damages. A plaintiff asserting a civil conspiracy claim must establish ...

Where the record did not show the decedent had frequent, regular and proximate contact with a company’s asbestos insulation, the company prevailed on the wrongful death claims. Background After Charles F. Connor died at the age of 90 of mesothelioma, ...

After a fire damaged part of its building, the building’s owner believed it could profit more by declaring the building a total loss and selling rather than by complying with its lease and making repairs. The owner’s belief that its ...