A South Carolina man who entrusted his retirement account to BB&T Corporation has been awarded $17.2 million after a jury found that the bank failed to properly manage his investments. Plaintiff Francis Maybank was awarded a judgment of $3.1 million ...
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Read More »Columbia lawyer Robert Goings has a knack for winning big verdicts in seemingly small potatoes cases.
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Read More »In awarding a car dealer $390,000 in an uncontested bench trial, a U.S. District Court held recently that a vehicle distributor acted arbitrarily and in bad faith—but not maliciously—by keeping the dealer in the dark regarding problems involved in importing ...
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Read More »A former Department of Justice employee who accused her employer of ignoring rampant gender discrimination and sexual harassment at a federal office on the University of South Carolina campus has settled her suit.
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Read More »The city of Greenville and the family of a 39-year-old paranoid schizophrenic man who died during a scuffle with police disagree on what caused the death, but both sides have come together on a number: $500,000.
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Read More »The top results of a Google search for “Ralph Williams of Orangeburg” notify the world that he was arrested for attempting to rape a mentally handicapped patient at an assisted living facility where he worked.
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Read More »A Marlboro County jury has awarded $2.1 million to a man whose foot was crushed in an accident at the local Flakeboard plant.
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Read More »A forklift operator who was injured by a falling pallet of tires at the Michelin plant in Lexington has received a $150,000 settlement along with a complete waiver of his $186,000 workers’ compensation lien.
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Read More »Joe Rice, co-founder of the Motley Rice firm, made big headlines earlier this month for taking the lead in negotiating a more than $1 billion settlement in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read More »A man injured when the car he was driving hit a wheel that had fallen off a trailer on the interstate has settled his lawsuit against a trucking company and its owner for $600,000.
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