South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

Insurers for a now-defunct strip club in Myrtle Beach have paid $980,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the establishment served alcohol to two obviously drunk men, one of whom was underage, before they were involved in a single-vehicle crash. ...

Tagged with: Strip Club

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