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 ...

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A Charleston County jury has awarded nearly $6 million to a student athlete who alleged that he was rushed back into playing basketball after sustaining a concussion. After returning to the game within five weeks of being diagnosed with a ...

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  A Charleston-area woman is receiving more than $1 million after an incident on a sailboat left her with permanent brain injuries. Raven Ray alleged in her personal injury suit that a crew member invited her on board the boat ...

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A car crash involving two South Carolina residents on a North Carolina highway led to a personal injury lawsuit and, recently, a $5 million verdict for the plaintiff, according to the woman’s attorneys. Roy Willey IV of the Anastopoulo Law ...

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BMG Rights Mgm’t LLC v. Cox Commc’ns Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-024-18, 37 pp.) (Motz, J.) No. 16-1972, Feb. 1, 2018; EDVA at Alexandria (O’Grady, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although an ISP’s “13-strike policy” did not qualify for safe harbor ...

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  When staff at a hotel nestled in the mountains of North Carolina “upgraded” a mother and her 11-year-old son to Room 225, they never mentioned that a couple had died in that same room a few weeks earlier, according ...

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A young man who collided with a police car while riding his bike to work at the Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek has received a $365,000 jury award — after the defense initially offered $2,500 to settle the case, ...

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Jason Dobbins was riding along an Anderson County highway on Nov. 14, 2016, when his vehicle was T-boned by a teen driver who, in her family’s Mercedes, had just blown through a stop sign. The 2011 Nissan being driven by ...

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An Aiken couple who initially claimed that an illegal traffic stop turned into an illegal roadside search that exposed their intimate body parts to the public has settled its lawsuit against the city of Aiken, its police department, and several ...

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The second time Jeffrey Hall drove his Harley-Davidson motorcycle he lost control of the bike, veered into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on with a pickup. Afterward, he argued that the dealership that sold him the used Harley was negligent because ...

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