South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

After years of legal wrangling, the city of Columbia has been ordered to pay $1.6 million to an architectural firm contracted in 2003 to work on a publicly owned, 300-room Vista district hotel that never materialized. And the verdict amount ...

For cutting an auto accident claim check just a tad too late, Nationwide Insurance will pay a $1.1 million judgment to the victim, a federal judge in Charleston has ruled. Finding the incident more mistake than malice, the judge determined ...

Tagged with: Negligence Tyger River

After Elizabeth Woodberry was injured in a crash with a U.S. Postal Service vehicle, government attorneys argued that she was partly to blame because civilian drivers should have a heightened level of awareness around letter carriers. U.S. District Judge David ...

Two Charleston lawyers have helped a family secure a more than $1.17 million award against a Texas financial advisor accused of negligence for selling self-serving investments and giving bad advice.

Tagged with: Negligence

An octogenarian who was struck by a sport utility vehicle while vacationing on Seabrook Island has received a $1 million insurance settlement for his injuries, which included a fractured skull and brain damage.

Tagged with: Personal Injury settlement

After catching a doctor in a lie during her deposition, lawyers representing a young woman whose baby was born with brain damage and later died have negotiated a $2.2 million settlement that maxed out the two insurance policies at play, those attorneys report.

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice settlement

Attorneys for the Mt. Pleasant-based law firm of Motley Rice have helped win a $100 million verdict in favor of a woman who suffered serious injuries after being implanted with plastic transvaginal mesh. A Delaware jury found medical device manufacturer ...

A health care agency that provides medical services to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a case involving a brutal jail beating that nearly killed a man in 2012. The April 21 settlement ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Personal Injury

A woman who was broadsided in a 2012 auto accident that caused her to suffer an injured shoulder and a subsequent seizure is entitled to collect $350,000 from the negligent driver, a Charleston County jury decided on May 6. According ...

Tagged with: Car Crash injury Verdicts and Settlements

On Oct. 25, 2012, Lacy Lamb and her unborn child were shot to death by a Woodruff police officer who claimed she tried to run him over with a car. Recently, the city agreed to pay her estate $700,000 to ...

Tagged with: Police shooting Verdicts and Settlements