A woman whose on-again, off-again boyfriend died in an accident won’t be able to collect death benefits under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act because she wasn’t reliant on him financially, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a ...

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  A man who suffered permanent brain damage in a workplace accident has reached a $550,000 confidential workers’ compensation settlement after using some advanced technology to challenge the evaluation made by the neurologist assigned by the defendant, his attorney reports. ...

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  A Charleston man who suffered a stroke after undergoing surgery to repair a shoulder injury he suffered while on the job has received $1.6 million in a confidential workers’ compensation settlement, his attorney reports. David Pearlman of the Steinberg ...

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  After years of litigation over whether a woman is entitled to an extension of workers’ compensation benefits, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission unreasonably caused delays and has ordered an appellate panel ...

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  A South Carolina worker who was severely injured after crashing an employer-owned truck is fortunate he was at least one toke under line–he’s now settled his workers’ compensation suit for $3.8 million after his attorneys argued that marijuana use ...

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Even though defendant terminated plaintiff’s employment after plaintiff filed a workers’ compensation action, plaintiff has shown no causal relationship between his termination and the filing of his claim 12 months earlier. The record supports defendant’s assertion that it fired plaintiff ...

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A government contractor who developed a chronic pain condition after a slip and fall has agreed to settle his workers’ compensation case for more than $1 million, according to his attorney. Attorney Gary Christmas of Howell & Christmas Injury Lawyers ...

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After the petitioner-members of the South Carolina Home Builders’ Self Insurance Fund learned of actions by the fund’s trustees that petitioners believed were in violation of the “Agreement and Declaration of Trust” that established the fund, petitioners sent the trustees’ ...

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Beginning Aug. 1, worker’s compensation filing fees in South Carolina will increase to $50. The General Assembly authorized the $25 increase as part of their 2018-2019 budget in an effort to fund the development of the IT Legacy Modernization Project, ...

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Owners Insurance Co. v. Warren Mechanical, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-169-17, 28 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:16-cv-00669; D.S.C. Holding: Neither party is entitled to summary judgment on an insurer’s claim that a workers’ compensation insurance policy was void ab initio ...

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