South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A plaintiff who suffered a host of injuries after her dentist dropped a dental crown down her throat and failed to remove it has settled her medical malpractice suit for $1.225 million, the plaintiff’s attorneys report. Brink Hinson of Hinson, ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A South Carolina man who was convicted of a violent crime under South Carolina’s stringent “hand of one, hand of all” accomplice liability law spent 37 years in prison before being set free by a parole board that believed he was fit to rejoin society. 

Tagged with: Parole

A woman who slipped while making a delivery has negotiated a $925,000 settlement with a body shop as compensation for her back injuries, her attorney reports.

A South Carolina gas station has been found liable as part of a more than $3 million award stemming from a drunk driving crash after staff allegedly failed to check identification of an underage alcohol purchaser. David Yarborough, Reynolds Blankenship, ...

Tagged with: Dram shop

An at-fault driver’s insurance company will pay $1.5 million to a man who was injured in a car crash, after the insurer failed to meet a five-day deadline to reply to the plaintiff’s demand for a settlement for the driver’s ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  A same-sex couple that ended their relationship before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down South Carolina’s law prohibiting same-sex marriage lacked the requisite intent and mutual agreement to enter a legally binding common law marriage, the South Carolina Supreme ...

Tagged with: Same Sex Marriage

  Ask any mediator and they’ll tell you that being the third wheel in a party of (at least) two is not always easy. It’s their job to get the party started and keep the party going, even when the ...

Tagged with: Mediation

  A man who alleges that he was extorted and defamed by a Slovak businessman has been awarded $32.4 million default judgment by a federal judge who found the businessman liable on two counts of violating the Racketeer Influenced and ...

Tagged with: Defamation

  A family that suffered a host of serious injuries in a rollover crash that was caused by a defective tire on a recently purchased used SUV has settled a lawsuit for $2 million, the family’s attorneys report.  Ray Doumar ...

Tagged with: Negligence

  An employment contract that gave Texas’s courts jurisdiction over any disputes between a Greenville man and his employer didn’t require the employee to bring his dispute over unpaid wages in Texas’ courts or preclude him from filing suit in South Carolina ...

Tagged with: Forum-Selection Clause