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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Companion Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Wood (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-092-17, 55 pp.) (Cameron McGowan Currie, S.J.) 3:14-cv-03719; D.S.C. Holding: Despite broad language promising that the defendant-guarantor, Charles Wood, will pay the plaintiff-insurance company’s legal fees relating to the ...

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Provau v. YRC, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-129-17, 7 pp.) (R. Bryan Harwell, J.) 4:16-cv-00422; D.S.C. Holding: Although defendant finds it more efficient to use contractors to perform maintenance and repairs on the tractor trailers at its small Florence facility, ...

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Lewis v. L.B. Dynasty, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-022-17, 4 pp.) (Kaye Hearn, J.) (Costa Pleicones, Acting Justice, concurring in the result only without separate opinion) Appealed from the Workers’ Compensation Commission. On writ of certiorari to the Court of ...

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The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission and a circuit judge got it wrong when they denied a change of condition claim from a school employee who was injured during a fight between two students, according to the state Court of ...

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