Our Top Verdicts & Settlements list for 2021 is the first—and, hopefully, only—list that was fully impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As that year began, none of us really knew what it had in store for the legal profession. But ...

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The thing that really jumps out at you about South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of the Top Verdicts & Settlements of 2020 is how utterly ordinary it is. There are slightly fewer verdicts than is typical, but nothing about the ...

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Each year, South Carolina Lawyers Weekly presents our list of the top verdicts and settlements of the previous year. It’s a chance to contextualize the reports we’ve published in the last 12 months and present a picture of the year ...

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  As we do each year, South Carolina Lawyers Weekly is delighted to present the top verdicts and settlements that were reported to us for 2018. Over the years, Lawyers Weekly has handled the top verdicts and settlements list in ...

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Black steel workers settle discrimination claims for $22.5M The owner of a South Carolina steel mill has agreed to pay a $22.5 million settlement to workers who said they were discriminated against because of their race. The Nucor Steel Corp. ...

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A woman injured after crashing her moped into a tractor-trailer seven months ago has settled her case against the truck’s driver and his employer for $1.6 million, her attorney reports. According to Roy Willey IV of the Anastopoulo Law Firm, ...

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A rare medical malpractice verdict in Charleston County, the first in at least 15 years, one plaintiffs’ attorney said, tops South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of the largest verdicts for 2016. A Lowcountry couple sued a doctor for misdiagnosing what ...

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Rare med-mal verdict returned for $6.9M   A Charleston County jury returned a $6.9 million verdict against a radiologist who allegedly misread a mammogram, resulting in the patient’s breast cancer ultimately becoming terminal. Leanna Loud sued Dr. Jeffrey Short and ...

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This year’s list of the 25 largest verdicts and settlements in South Carolina features two $100 million awards and, all together, more than $350 million in litigation results. From big tobacco to medical malpractice to product and premises liability, this ...

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This year’s list of the largest verdicts and settlements in South Carolina features several multimillion-dollar cases and others of note, ranging from a federal asbestos case to personal injury, malpractice and wrongful death case. In all, we cataloged nearly $700 ...

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