Home surveillance cameras played a critical role in reaching a $950,000 settlement in a lawsuit over the death of prominent Columbia political activist and philanthropist Martha Edens. Edens’ daughter, Dinah Cook, alleged in a wrongful death and survival action that ...

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A doctor making his rounds in 2011 who took a spill after stepping in a puddle by a nurses’ station won a $2.5 million verdict in September, his attorneys reported to Lawyers Weekly this week. According to William Padget of ...

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White v. Renaissance Hotel Management Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-016-16, 11 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:14-cv-02866; D.S.C. Holding: Where (1) plaintiffs specifically requested a room with a balcony, (2) plaintiff Katherine White complained often during their 10-day stay about the ...

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Griggs v. Dollar General Corp. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-004-16, 12 pp.) (R. Bryan Harwell, J.) 4:15-cv-04600; D.S.C. Holding: A store manager can be held personally and jointly liable with the store itself for an alleged act of negligence, and plaintiff ...

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Taylor v. United States (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-143-15, 8 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 1:13-cv-03144; D.S.C. Holding: Although plaintiff testified that it was no longer raining when he went to the Post Office and slipped in water on the floor, ...

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A jury has awarded more than $4 million to a man who fell in a dimly lit parking garage in downtown Charleston.

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The fact that a defendant’s employee told a plaintiff that the floor where she slipped and fell was “always wet” on rainy days wasn’t enough for a federal judge to allow her case to go forward. The South Carolina woman ...

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Lucas v. Sysco Columbia LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-202-14, 10 pp.) (Joseph Anderson Jr., J.) 3:13-cv-02883; D.S.C. Holding: The court rejects plaintiff’s argument that the regular recurrence of a condition – wet floors whenever it rains – means a business ...

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