After a weeklong trial, a Charleston County jury deliberated approximately three hours before awarding $1 million to a mother and her adult daughter after they were exposed to high levels of mold in their Mount Pleasant apartment.   The attorney for ...

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A father and son who were severely burned in a flash fire on their boat have settled their lawsuit for the insurer’s policy limits of $1 million, their attorneys report.   Kenneth Berger of Columbia and Myrtle Beach and C. Nicholas Cronauer ...

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A family that suffered injuries while escaping from a residential fire has obtained a $4.1 million settlement from the condominium association for the building in which they lived and its management company, the family’s attorneys report.   Monica Wooten Yates ...

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  Dogs chasing after beleaguered mail carriers may be a comedy cliché, but it remains a very real job hazard for couriers–the U.S. Postal Service alone sees thousands of workers attacked by dogs each year.  So, an unprovoked and severe dog bite inflicted upon a UPS driver in Mount Pleasant was ...

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A South Carolina man who became quadriplegic after breaking his neck in a bicycle crash on a sidewalk has settled with the builders of the pathway for $3.45 million, his attorney said. The names of the plaintiffs and the county ...

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  A 41-year-old employee of a mobile home installation company has settled with his employer’s insurance company for $1.1 million, the full extent of the policy limits, after suffering permanent spinal injuries in a tractor-trailer crash in Horry County in ...

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In what his attorney believes is the largest automobile accident verdict in the history of Dorchester County, a jury there has awarded $2.2 million to a plumber and married father of three who suffered serious back injuries after he was ...

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  A Richland County jury has awarded $50,000 to an Aiken County woman injured in a 2016 interstate crash–more than twice what the insurer offered, according to her attorneys. Janice Wright was traveling south on I-77 near Columbia in July ...

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  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 ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Two lawsuits have been settled after a crash on a South Carolina lake that killed two men last year. David Bruce Dyer was driving a powerboat on Lake Murray northwest of Columbia when it ran crashed into a ...

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