Switching telephone service providers is a hassle. It was such a hassle for one South Carolina company that a federal court said the company can sue AT&T Southeast for negligence for failing to “port” the company’s phone number when he ...

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CHARLESTON — A federal jury in Charleston has awarded the family of the former mayor of Cottageville $97 million for his shooting death. Multiple media outlets reported the jury reached the decision Wednesday in the negligence and wrongful death suit ...

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A woman who was injured after her foot fell into a hole that had opened up in land owned by the city of Hartsville will be allowed to pursue her lawsuit against the city for not fixing the hole, the ...

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A man injured when the car he was driving hit a wheel that had fallen off a trailer on the interstate has settled his lawsuit against a trucking company and its owner for $600,000.

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Solanki v. Wal-Mart Store #2806 (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-100-14, 11 pp.) (Aphrodite Konduros, J.) (H. Bruce Williams, J., dissenting) Appealed from Spartanburg County Circuit Court (Frank Addy Jr., J.) S.C. App. Holding: Where a Wal-Mart employee made a mistake when ...

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State v. Collins (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-100-14, 13 pp.) (Donald Beatty, J.) (John Kittredge, J., joined by Kaye Hearn, J., concurring in the result) (Costa Pleicones, J., dissenting) Appealed from Dillon County Circuit Court (Paul Burch, J.) On writ of ...

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Ashley II of Charleston, L.L.C. v. PCS Nitrogen, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-079-14, 6 pp.) (John Kittredge, J.) On certification from the U.S. District Court for South Carolina. S.C. S. Ct. Holding: In the context of a CERCLA liability action ...

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Bill Knight and his girlfriend Chris Nelsen were driving in Mount Pleasant earlier this year when an alleged drunk driver ran a red light at 45 mph, causing a crash that resulted in a $500,000 settlement.

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SOMA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish mining company defended its safety record Friday, four days after at least 284 people died in an underground blaze at its coal mine in western Turkey. A maximum of 18 miners remain missing and ...

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The widow of a man who died after suffering a heart attack at a fitness center run by the City of Aiken has settled claims against the city and its safety training contractor for $950,000. Navia Wilhelm alleged that improper ...

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