A woman who was thrown from a vehicle being driven by her drunk friend while they were celebrating her birthday has settled a lawsuit against the restaurant that served them for $975,000, her attorney reports. In January 2016, the ...

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A man who suffered serious injuries after a drunk driver hit him head-on has settled a lawsuit against the driver and the bar that served him for $3 million, his attorney reports. Kenneth Berger of Columbia reports that his client, ...

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The family of a 24-year-old man who died after being hit by a drunk driver while riding his moped has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the driver and bar that served him for $1.85 million, the family’s attorney said. David ...

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  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 ...

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  A husband who watched as his wife was struck head-on by a drunken driver and died in an ensuing fire has reached a $1.28 million settlement with the driver’s insurers and with the bars that served the driver his ...

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A judge in Richland County has ordered an Eastover bar to pay more than $2.6 million for over-serving a patron who caused a crash immediately after driving away from the establishment following a long night of drinking. Circuit Judge Robert ...

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An Easley restaurant agreed to pay a commercial truck driver $800,000 to settle claims it overserved alcohol to one of its customers, who ended up crashing her car into his tractor-trailer after she left the restaurant. Under the terms of ...

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Married investigators who have carved out a niche busting bars that serve patrons too much booze were instrumental in a $1 million settlement reached earlier this month with a Lexington County bar and its insurer, according to an attorney for ...

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Dram Shop litigation is trending in South Carolina. Last year, two of the top 25 verdicts and settlements were Dram Shop cases. And so far this year, several multimillion-dollar settlements have been paid to victims of drivers who were over-served ...

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