South Carolina does not recognize any rule that would automatically preclude a suicide victim’s estate from pursuing a wrongful death action, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled in answering a pair of certified questions from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court ...

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  The family of a man who died of internal bleeding in the early morning hours after Christmas at the Medical University of South Carolina has settled a wrongful death claim in Charleston County Superior Court for $775,000, the family’s ...

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  The husband of a woman who died in a vehicle crash in Beaufort County along with their unborn child has reached an $11.3 million settlement with the driver responsible and her employer, his attorney reports. Harry Oxner of Oxner ...

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  A drug treatment facility in West Columbia will pay $10.5 million to settle two wrongful death lawsuits brought after an elderly couple and their grandson died in a head on collision caused by a drug-abusing patient who was leaving ...

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  The family of a man who died of severe burns after a tank ignited at a paper plant in North Charleston has confidentially settled its wrongful death suit against the companies that supplied and transported the materials in the ...

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    A Richland County jury has awarded $110,000 to the estate of an elderly woman who choked to death when an arsonist set her apartment building on fire in January 2017. True Henderson, 80, died a “horrible death” in ...

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The estate of a man killed when his vehicle was struck head-on during a police pursuit has settled its wrongful death claims for a total of $1,400,000, his attorneys report. On April 6, 2017, Liberty police well exceeded 100 mph ...

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GREENVILLE (AP) The widow of a South Carolina firefighter struck and killed during a chase involving a sheriff’s deputy has settled a lawsuit. News outlets reported Amber Childs Howard was awarded $225,000 in her lawsuit against the Greenville County Sheriff’s ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Two lawsuits have been settled after a crash on a South Carolina lake that killed two men last year. David Bruce Dyer was driving a powerboat on Lake Murray northwest of Columbia when it ran crashed into a ...

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Even though plaintiff’s decedent was following his fellow motorcyclist too closely, and even though the decedent never collided with defendant’s postal carrier, the bulk (90 percent) of the fault for the decedent’s fatal motorcycle accident belongs to a new postal ...

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