An octogenarian who was struck by a sport utility vehicle while vacationing on Seabrook Island has received a $1 million insurance settlement for his injuries, which included a fractured skull and brain damage.

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After catching a doctor in a lie during her deposition, lawyers representing a young woman whose baby was born with brain damage and later died have negotiated a $2.2 million settlement that maxed out the two insurance policies at play, those attorneys report.

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The South Carolina Department of Social Services and a foster-parent agency have agreed to pay $515,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that they failed to protect a young girl from a violent and sexually aggressive teenager with HIV.

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ORANGEBURG (AP) — Norfolk Southern and the state of South Carolina have settled a lawsuit with the estate of an 81-year-old woman killed in a train crash in Orangeburg almost four years ago. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports ...

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The people in Dustin Smith’s life noticed changes in his personality after he was involved in a high-speed crash on Interstate 20 in Columbia, according to his attorney, Kenneth Berger.

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Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. J.T. Walker Industries (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-240-14, 11 pp.) (Margaret Seymour, Sr. J.) 2:08-cv-02043; D.S.C. Holding: Even though, when the plaintiff-insurer settled five lawsuits filed against the defendant-insured, the insured objected to settling four ...

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Per a Freedom of Information Act request, the S.C. Budget and Control Board released documents confirming that the state paid Levar Jones $285,000 after he was shot by former state trooper Sean Groubert during a traffic stop in September. The ...

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Russell Reynolds had sat through three weeks of graphic and painful testimony detailing the suffering that his mother endured at a South Carolina nursing home before she died. As the jury neared its fourth hour of deliberations, he had to make a tough decision.

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The S.C. Department of Public Safety has agreed to pay $285,000 to 35-year-old Levar Jones, the motorist shot on Sept. 4 by then-state trooper Sean Groubert, a department spokeswoman has confirmed. The settlement was quietly reached less than a month ...

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A former Department of Justice employee who accused her employer of ignoring rampant gender discrimination and sexual harassment at a federal office on the University of South Carolina campus has settled her suit.

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