South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

After a cursory investigation convinced defendants (plaintiff’s superiors) that plaintiff, a school security guard, had stolen $1,000 from a school for which he was supposed to provide security, defendants told others in the security department that plaintiff would be working ...

In answer to two questions certified by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the court says (1) South Carolina does not recognize a general rule that suicide is an intervening act that always breaks the chain of causation in a ...

Police officers allowed the assailant, whom they knew, to delay surrendering on an arrest warrant, after which the assailant stabbed his pregnant wife outside the courthouse where she had just obtained a protective order against him. The officers’ conduct, however, ...

The defendants were acting within the scope of their employment when they investigated complaints that plaintiff abused and neglected his three minor children while stationed on an overseas military base. Background Barry Doe claims officers of the United States Navy ...

This medical malpractice case arose from the defendant-doctor’s management of a baby’s shoulder being stuck under her mother’s pubic bone during delivery, which led to the baby suffering permanent brachial plexus nerve injury to the baby’s right arm. The parties’ ...

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 dangerous ...

In this medical malpractice action arising out of plaintiff’s treatment with electroconvulsive therapy, based on our decision in Marshall v. Dodds, (Op. No. 27873, filed March 27, 2019), we affirm our Court of Appeals’ ruling that the statute of repose ...

  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 ...