South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where the defendant in a wrongful death action brought by a woman whose husband’s exposure to asbestos caused his death from mesothelioma, argued the jury was improperly instructed on causation and the trial court erred by refusing to reduce the ...

Minor inaccuracies in two CBS Evening News reports about a West Virginia pharmacy and its role in the opioid crisis did not support a claim for defamation because the broadcast likely had the same effect on the viewer as the ...

The defendant-borrower responded to the plaintiff-lender’s foreclosure action with a counterclaim for unfair trade practices. The materials before the circuit court (a stipulation prevented the lender from presenting evidence because of its failure to produce a witness for deposition) indicated ...

A juror in this medical malpractice action (1) failed to disclose that she knew the defendant-doctor and two nurses who were involved in the plaintiff-patient’s care and (2) ignored the trial court’s instructions not to discuss the case before deliberations ...

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 during his colonoscopy. The defendant-anesthesiologist acknowledged the standard of care: an anesthesiologist should not ...

Even though the plaintiff-customer, who slipped and fell on an allegedly over-waxed floor in a Marshalls store, has settled with the defendant-store and the defendant-cleaning subcontractor, there remain genuine issues of fact as to whether the cleaning subcontractor must indemnify ...

The plaintiff-patient says, if defendants had revealed that their drug—used for treating bipolar disorder—caused gynecomastia (enlarged breasts) in males, his doctor would have disclosed this risk to plaintiff, and his guardian would have made a different medical decision. There is ...

  In an issue of first impression, the court held that to succeed on a claim a hospital admission was not made in good faith, evidence must show the hospital admitted a patient solely to satisfy its Emergency Medical Treatment ...

  The plaintiff-vendor, who tripped and fell in the parking lot of a convention center owned by the defendant-city, presented sufficient evidence to go to the jury on the question of whether she was an invitee or licensee of the ...

  In this case involving equitable indemnity from a third-party defendant, we follow the majority rule as to attorney’s fees: the third-party plaintiffs may recover the attorneys’ fees they incurred in defending the underlying lawsuit but not the attorneys’ fees ...