A couple that was struck by another vehicle as they traveled down U.S. Highway 25 in Greenville reached a $2.2 million settlement before filing suit, their attorney reported. According to Beattie Ashmore of Greenville, the husband suffered numerous broken ribs ...

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Holcombe v. Helena Chemical Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-068-17, 13 pp.) (Patrick Michael Duffy, J.) 2:15-cv-02852; D.S.C. Holding: Even though plaintiff does not allege that defendant’s truck driver intended any harm when he performed an unsafe turn, the court is ...

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A Conway-based trucking company has agreed to pay $1.15 million to Cheryl Andrews, who suffered a neck fracture after her car was hit by one of the company’s dump trucks. Heritage Hauling agreed to the settlement after Andrews’ attorneys allegedly ...

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A Lexington County woman injured in a January car crash has agreed to settle her case for $125,000, her attorney reports. According to Nathan Hughey of Mount Pleasant, his client, Kim Power, was driving through an intersection on Sunset Boulevard ...

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FDIC v. Rippy (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-149-15, 30 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 14-2078, Aug. 18, 2015; USDC at Wilmington, N.C. (Boyle, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In this suit alleging that plaintiff Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as receiver, suffered $216 million ...

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For cutting an auto accident claim check just a tad too late, Nationwide Insurance will pay a $1.1 million judgment to the victim, a federal judge in Charleston has ruled. Finding the incident more mistake than malice, the judge determined ...

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Two Charleston lawyers have helped a family secure a more than $1.17 million award against a Texas financial advisor accused of negligence for selling self-serving investments and giving bad advice.

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An assistant principal whose career was cut short when a hotel shuttle he was riding in ran a red light has received a $2.46 million settlement for his injuries. “James Thompson was a rising star in the education community,” said ...

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A team of South Carolina lawyers won a $35.9 million jury verdict in Maryland for a 27-year-old man zapped with a bolt of electricity and paralyzed while working at an electrical substation.

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A jury deliberated just four hours before delivering a verdict and a message: $97.5 million — including $90 million in punitive damages — to the family of a man shot dead on a country road by a small-town police officer ...

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