South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A husband and wife who were injured in a car crash as they were on their way to deliver Christmas gifts to a local charity have settled their claims against two insurers for $746,631, their attorney reports. Clay Hopkins ...

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  A father whose ex-wife tried to shut him out of his half of a settlement she secured after their daughter died in a fire has been awarded $343,128 by a Beaufort County Probate Court judge. Ashley Twombley of Twenge ...

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The thing that really jumps out at you about South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of the Top Verdicts & Settlements of 2020 is how utterly ordinary it is. There are slightly fewer verdicts than is typical, but nothing about the ...

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  A judge correctly read an ambiguous contract to find that a juice maker had been squeezed by one of its buyers for millions of dollars in rebates that the buyer wasn’t entitled to, the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals ...

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  The family of a woman who remains in a coma after giving birth in a Columbia hospital in 2018 has settled a lawsuit against the treating hospital and the University of South Carolina for $2.1 million, her attorneys report. ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

  A cable wire installer who was electrocuted while working on a demolition and renovation project has settled a lawsuit against the project’s developers, construction, and electrical companies for $2.5 million, his attorneys report. Matthew Altamura of Garrett, Walker, Aycoth ...

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  The mother of a toddler who was severely injured when a dump truck forced the car he was riding in off of the road and into a concrete wall has confidentially settled claims with various insurance carriers for $4.1 ...

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  A man who became partially paralyzed after a hospital waited too long before sending him for an MRI exam has confidentially settled a case against the hospital for $1 million, his attorneys report. Bert “Skip” Utsey of Clawson Fargnoli ...

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An attorney who resigned as an equity partner from a North Carolina law firm can’t bring a Title VII lawsuit against the firm, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. In an apparent issue of first impression in ...

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  Earlier this month, the director of the White House Coronavirus Task Force said that vaccinating everyone in America against COVID-19 is one of the greatest operational challenges the country has ever faced and “we will not stop working until ...

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