South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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

  Two employees of an Applebee’s franchise located in North Myrtle Beach have agreed to settle claims that they were repeatedly sexually harassed by their assistant manager. They received  $75,000 and a company promise to improve working conditions. The two ...

Tagged with: Sexual Harassment

  Shareholders of the medical device manufacturing company Medtronic Inc. have reached a securities fraud settlement worth $43 million in a lawsuit in Minnesota federal court. The class action lawsuit was brought on behalf of shareholders against the company, which ...

Tagged with: Class Action

The estate of a man killed when his vehicle was struck head-on during a police pursuit has settled its wrongful death claims for a total of $1,400,000, his attorneys report. On April 6, 2017, Liberty police well exceeded 100 mph ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

The estate of a Midlands woman who died after allegedly being improperly prescribed a weight-loss drug has reached a $750,000 confidential medical malpractice settlement with the woman’s physician, the attorney for the estate reports. Francis “Brink” Hinson of the Finkel ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

A Rock Hill-based 3D printing company has agreed to pay shareholders $50 million to settle claims that the company’s management made false statements that caused its stock price to boom—and then crash just as fiercely once those misrepresentations were corrected. ...

Tagged with: Fraud

  A company that failed to restore its fire-damaged building has been ordered by a Charleston County jury to pay more than $1.2 million in damages to one of its tenants, plaintiffs’ attorneys have reported. Court documents show that Sea ...

Tagged with: Breach of Contract

After initially demanding $2 million and then, shortly before trial, asking for $300,000, a plaintiff accepted $5,000 to settle a defamation case, according to an attorney for one of the defendants in the case. “I would call $5,000 on a ...

Tagged with: defendant

  A Mount Pleasant law firm has reported that it helped negotiate a bankruptcy plan carving out a trust of at least $90 million for those who have been injured or killed by defective Takata airbags. According to a settlement ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury