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Top Verdicts & Settlements of 2021
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 as it turned out, our 2021 list ably demonstrates the resiliency of the legal profession […]
Immunized: No slowdown seen in Top V&S of 2020
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 list would give you any indication that anything unusual was going on in 2020, or […]
The Top Verdicts & Settlements of 2019
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 that’s been, but it’s also a chance to check in on the latest developments as […]
A massive settlement tops our all-inclusive list for 2018
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 different ways. Some years we’ve done two separate lists, one for verdicts and one for […]
South Carolina’s Top Verdicts & Settlements 2018
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. agreed to the settlement after years of litigation dating back to 2003. U.S. District Judge […]
Careless turn leads to $1.6M settlement
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, Nicolle Burns was riding along King’s Highway in Myrtle Beach on the morning of Dec. […]
Med-mal case leads list of ‘Largest Verdicts’
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 eventually became a terminal prognosis of breast cancer, leading to a $6.9 million-dollar award for […]
Top verdicts of 2016
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 Charleston Radiologists after she, in 2008, went for a mammogram at East Cooper Regional Medical […]
Top 25 largest verdicts and settlements of 2015
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 year’s cases once again run the gamut. The list includes the top 25 awards and […]
Top 25 Verdicts and Settlements
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 million in litigation results. The list includes the top 25 awards and settlements finalized during […]
Jury finds for defense in $50M asbestos case
Attorneys who in 2013 secured a $38 million verdict by convincing a Richland County jury that their client developed mesothelioma after years of asbestos exposure failed to convince a Greenville County jury of the same in a similar case. Ethel Muldoon sought $50 million in the death of her husband, Joseph, contending that 23 years […]
Top 25 Verdicts and Settlements for 2013
A change in this year’s list of Top Verdicts & Settlements Journalists are skeptical and often bullheaded. But we can be reasoned with. When a couple of avid readers who practice eminent domain law urged us to change our rules regarding how we calculate and classify those cases in our annual roundup of largest verdicts […]
Business Law
- Economy forces attorneys to get down to business
- Business Court judges trawl for customers
- Va. company's Web site did not subject business to personal jurisdiction in S.C., appeals panel rules
- Former running back from S.C. wins courtroom victory in contract dispute
- Contract – Government Contract – Qui Tam – False Claims Act
- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
- Consumer Protection – FCRA – Auto Loan – Bank Accounting Errors
- Licenses & Permits – Beer & Wine Permit – Restrictive Covenant – Suitable Location
- Licenses & Permits – Veterinarian – Vaccine Maintenance
- State regulators look at car dealer accused of lying to customers
- Textile firm, railroad settle Graniteville train wreck lawsuit
- Subprime mortgage meltdown hits securities law
Commentary
- High court justices cross the line of propriety
- High court’s term was rough on big business
- The flip side of generative AI in law and how to address it
- The fight for equal educational opportunity continues
- Letter From The Editor – Working from Home
- NLRB joins FTC in taking aim at non-competes
- Supreme Court leaves key internet protection untouched
- US Supreme Court bites back at parody’s use of the First Amendment
- My goal: Provide the information that you need now
- Case study: North Carolina courts provide guidance on scope, limitations of attorney-client privilege
- A Different Ode to Pro Bono Work
- N.C. Bar Association embraces homophobia
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