South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The family of a man who died of severe burns after a tank ignited at a paper plant in North Charleston has confidentially settled its wrongful death suit against the companies that supplied and transported the materials in the ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

A South Carolina woman who had three limbs amputated after Crohn’s disease led to sepsis has settled a lawsuit against a hospital, her doctor, a surgeon, and a gastroenterologist for $16.4 million, her attorney reported. The then 18-year-old was playing ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A woman who was severely injured in a car crash and spent five months in the hospital has settled the case for $4 million, according to her attorney. On Sept. 27, 2016, the woman was driving through York County on ...

The family of a man who died of cancer after his doctor told him he was cancer-free has reached a $6 million settlement with the doctor’s practice, the plaintiff’s attorney reports. The settlement was unusually large because of the defendant’s ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

An altercation that began with a fight over a loose cigarette at a South Carolina sawmill and ended when a man almost died after he was shanked multiple times has resulted in an $800,000 settlement, the man’s attorney reports. Attorney ...

  A federal judge in South Carolina has approved a multi-million dollar class-action settlement between Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company executives and former employees who say they lost retirement benefits when the company collapsed. Lawyers from both sides said that the ...

Tagged with: ERISA

    A Richland County jury has awarded $110,000 to the estate of an elderly woman who choked to death when an arsonist set her apartment building on fire in January 2017. True Henderson, 80, died a “horrible death” in ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

A major pizza delivery corporation has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a negligent hiring case after one of its delivery drivers had a seizure and rear-ended a 70-year-old man, the plaintiff’s attorneys have reported. The corporation’s name and ...

Tagged with: Negligence

  A Richland County jury has awarded $50,000 to an Aiken County woman injured in a 2016 interstate crash–more than twice what the insurer offered, according to her attorneys. Janice Wright was traveling south on I-77 near Columbia in July ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury

A government contractor who developed a chronic pain condition after a slip and fall has agreed to settle his workers’ compensation case for more than $1 million, according to his attorney. Attorney Gary Christmas of Howell & Christmas Injury Lawyers ...

Tagged with: Workers' Compensation