South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A motorcyclist who was injured after a driver stuck him while making an abrupt left turn has settled a claim against the driver for $2.75 million, his attorneys report. Douglas Jennings and Liam Duffy of Yarborough Applegate in Charleston ...

Tagged with: motorcycle crash

A driver who was severely injured after he rammed into an unlit tractor-trailer that had pulled out in front of him has confidentially settled a claim against the truck’s owner for $2 million, even though blood tests showed that the ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

The widow of a Charleston business executive and philanthropist has settled a bad faith claim against an insurer that refused to pay $8 million to help settle defamation and other claims her late husband’s children had lodged against her, her ...

Tagged with: Insurance

  A Charleston County couple and a Charleston divorce attorney will share a $2 million settlement after resolving a defamation claim against a man who allegedly placed defamatory signs about them around the city during contentious divorce proceedings with his ...

Tagged with: Defamation

  An incarcerated South Carolina man who alleges that a prison guard put him in isolation for 110 days in retaliation after he accused her colleague of assaulting him can move ahead with a lawsuit against the guard after the ...

Tagged with: Retaliation

  Horry County was Ground Zero for South Carolina as the state resumed jury trials in August, and two months later, attorneys who’ve been witness to justice in the midst of a pandemic there see room for improvement, but some ...

Tagged with: jury trials

  A pedestrian who was struck by a pickup truck while crossing a highway will have a chance to argue her case before a jury after the South Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that a jury could find the ...

Tagged with: crosswalk Negligence

A police officer who was driving at nearly twice the posted speed limit isn’t entitled to immunity from a lawsuit stemming from the resulting car crash because he wasn’t responding to any genuine emergency, a divided 4th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Tagged with: Qualified Immunity

  The husband of a woman who bled to death after delivering their baby has settled a lawsuit against the hospital where she gave birth for $550,000, her attorneys report. Francis “Brink” Hinson, formerly with the Finkel Law Firm and ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A former government employee who went blind after a hose on a vacuum truck exploded in his face has confidentially settled a suit against the third-party contractor that owned the truck for $1.75 million and collected $200,000 in worker’s compensation, ...

Tagged with: Workplace Accident