South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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

  The South Carolina Insurance Reserve Fund will pay $600,000 to settle the excessive force case of a mentally ill man shot in his garage by an Anderson County deputy, his attorneys have reported. According to Wes Few of Greenville, ...

Tagged with: Excessive Force

  The family of a man who died after being ejected from a vehicle being driven by a drunken driver has settled their dram shop claims against two Columbia bar for $1.625 million, their attorneys report. According to David Lail ...

Tagged with: Dram shop

A Richland County jury has ordered the brother of South Carolina’s governor to pay $100,000 to a waiter he assaulted in 2014. George McMaster, brother of Gov. Henry McMaster, was charged criminally in a May 2014 incident in which Joshua ...

Tagged with: assault and battery

Fifty laid-off nuclear plant workers have settled their Fair Labor Standards Act claims against a major engineering and construction firm and will receive $1.59 million in overtime back pay, their attorneys report. According to plaintiffs’ attorneys William Applegate IV of ...

Tagged with: Fair Labor Standards Act nuclear power