South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A Columbia nursing home has agreed to pay $315,000 to the estate of a man who died after falling off his shower bed while being bathed, breaking several bones in his face and neck. James Lewis, who was in his ...

Tagged with: Mediation Nursing Home

What appears to be the first product liability lawsuit filed in South Carolina against a corporation that makes so-called “rocket carts,” which are used for stocking merchandise in large stores, has resulted in a $1.15 million settlement. A metal shelf ...

Tagged with: Walmart

A Spartanburg County jury has awarded $868,000 to a woman who says her employer made—and then promptly broke—a promise not to fire her for providing frank answers to questions posed by the organization’s board of directors, the woman’s attorneys report. ...

A jury in Greenville County has awarded $1.25 million to the mother of a woman who was stabbed to death while working at a bank inside a Wal-Mart. The verdict is against the local sheriff and is believed to be ...

Tagged with: Walmart

A jury in Marion County hit a Sumter family physician accused of malpractice with a $675,000 verdict in late August, spurring his practice to subsequently pay $500,000 to settle the case. The family of the late Ruby Britt accused Dr. ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

The city of Duncan has paid $700,000 to the estate of a woman shot and killed last year by one of its police officers as the woman allegedly tried to make off with the officer’s cruiser. The lawsuit, filed by ...

Tagged with: Excessive Force settlement

The aorta, the main artery in the human body, is the cardiovascular equivalent of a city’s water main—if you accidentally poke a hole in it, you’ll quickly have an emergency on your hands. Unfortunately, that was the case for a ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A jury in the typically conservative county of Greenville has awarded $375,000 to a worker who was injured while driving a business-owned vehicle on Interstate 85, according to the man’s attorney, Robert Goings. Goings, who has an eponymous practice in ...

Several defendants, including a Hilton Head title company and law firm, have agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle a class-action suit in which plaintiffs bought “worthless and invalid property interests”: timeshares in part of a Missouri resort ...

The former owner of an Upstate meat-packing company has paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that she embezzled more than $650,000 over the course of several years after selling the company but remaining on the payroll. According to court ...