South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A Marlboro County jury has awarded almost $908,000 in actual damages to a man was denied any treatment for opioid withdrawal during a 27-day incarceration in the county’s detention center in 2015. The verdict, which illustrates how the ripple effects ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

  For some, it’s a family legacy dating back to the Revolutionary War. For others, it was an educational opportunity through ROTC in college or a Citadel education.  But for all, it’s a duty to serve their country. The South ...

Tagged with: military

  Just after the University of South Carolina board of trustees voted July 19 to hire Robert Caslen Jr. as its next president, opponents of the move predicted the decision would face a legal challenge, but it’s not clear how ...

Tagged with: USC

A federal appeals court has underscored its insistence that attorneys’ fee awards take into account just how far short of the target a plaintiff’s arrow falls. Judges must compare the amount of damages sought to the amount awarded, the 4th ...

Tagged with: Fees

By RENEE SEXTON and DAVID DONOVAN The South Carolina Court of Appeals has recommended new language for judges to use when instructing juries on the defense of accident, particularly in cases where the defendant may have been engaging in unlawful ...

Tagged with: accident defense

  After a span of more than five years in which not a single death sentence was handed down in South Carolina, in the space of less than a month earlier this year two juries handed down death sentences in ...

Tagged with: Death Penalty

Anyone who has a Facebook account has probably at some point gotten a message from a “spoofed” account. It looks like a message from one of your friends, but something seems not quite right—it doesn’t read like a message your ...

Geico has paid $2.15 million to a Dorchester County man who won a verdict against a teen who rear-ended him after the teenager’s family hired a bad faith attorney to litigate the case directly against the insurance company, the injured ...

Tagged with: Auto Insurance

An insurance company that denied benefits to a disabled plant manager in the face of overwhelming evidence of his total disability has been sharply rebuked by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which unanimously affirmed a federal judge’s ruling ...

Tagged with: Disability

A major retail pharmacy has agreed to pay a $1.35 million settlement in the wrongful death of a 62-year-old Midlands woman who had her prescriptions for a weight loss drug filled at one of its locations, the plaintiff’s attorney reports. ...