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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Heirs of injured workers who later die from causes that have nothing to do with their workplace accidents can collect permanent total disability benefits, even if the workers’ compensation claim was still pending at the time of death, the South ...

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State lawmakers have reappointed the vice chair of the Workers’ Compensation Commission to a third six-year term, despite protests from several lawyers, ex-commissioners and a law professor who said she was biased toward certain claimants. Twenty state senators voted unanimously ...

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An appellate opinion published in 2012 came back to haunt the vice chair of the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission earlier this month as she stood before a state Senate subcommittee and asked to keep her job for another six ...

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In a ruling that a plaintiff’s attorney feels could “fundamentally change” the way certain workers’ compensation cases are evaluated, the South Carolina Court of Appeals found on Jan. 20 that the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s exclusive reliance on objective evidence in ...

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