Biker who lost legs in crash gets $300K from DOT
A North Carolina woman who lost both her legs in a motorcycle crash after she hit a curb while on vacation in Myrtle Beach has reached a $300,000 settlement with the South Carolina Department of...
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False accusation of embezzlement prompts $150K settlement
A man who was arrested and wrongly accused of embezzling money from his former employer has negotiated a $150,000 settlement to his defamation and false arrest lawsuit, his attorney reports. Brooks...
View ArticleTechnicality won’t bar stand-your-ground defense
People can claim the protection of South Carolina’s “stand your ground” law if they act in self-defense while jaywalking, jogging in a park after hours, or—in the case of one Greenville County man...
View ArticleMechanic who lost fingers settles lawsuits for $1M
A manufacturing plant mechanic who lost his fingers after a machine crushed and burned his hand has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the machine’s manufacturer for $1,000,000, his attorneys...
View ArticleHome foreclosure over $250 debt struck down
It would not be much of a stretch, the family’s attorney said, to call it a Christmas miracle. Just before the holiday, a family whose home had been foreclosed upon over a mere $250 in unpaid...
View ArticleA letter from our editor
Dear subscriber, I hope your new year is off to a great start, and your new year’s resolutions are still going strong. South Carolina Lawyers Weekly has also made some exciting changes for 2020 that I...
View ArticleForesight is 2020: Legislative preview
More money for court reporters, a reform of business license taxes, possible new hate crimes legislation, and a long sought-after increase of the cap on damages under South Carolina’s Tort Claims Act...
View ArticleNo error after attorney told cops where body was buried
BY DAVID DONOVAN and RENEE SEXTON ddonovan@sclawyersweekly.com rsexton@scbiznews.com There are some obvious risks to admitting that you know where a dead body is buried, but a Dorchester County man who...
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Greenwood Co. wrongful death case settles for $875K
The family of a 75-year-old woman who died as a result of “horrific” facial and chest injuries suffered in a crash with a logging truck has reached an $875,000 settlement in a wrongful death and...
View ArticleLife is not a pie chart: Why flexibility might be the key to finding balance
While some might see technology as a prison that chains people to their work 24/7, Jim Lehman, managing partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Columbia, sees it more of a liberator rather...
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Family of man killed in prison settles case for $275K
The family of an inmate who was killed by two other inmates in a South Carolina prison has received $275,000 in a mediated wrongful death settlement, the family’s attorneys report. Mark Peper and...
View ArticleIdentity theft law covers taking from the dead
Grave robbing has been a tempting crime for millennia—the victim is in no shape to defend himself, and would seem to have no further use for worldly possessions. Egyptian pyramids were specifically...
View ArticleLawmakers, environmentalists, judges dive into seismic testing
The way Alan Hancock sees it, seismic testing off the South Carolina coast threatens the Lowcountry’s way of life. Hancock, the energy and climate advocacy director at the Coastal Conservation...
View ArticleSurgery complications drive $1.6M workers’ comp settlement
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,...
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Attorneys see yoga stretching more than just muscles
During the week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Cundari strides across the stone floors of the federal courthouse in Columbia, her mind constantly active with arguments and strategy. But for an hour on...
View Article‘Reverse discrimination’ lawsuits becoming an increasing concern
When Arne Wilberg, a former YouTube employee, sued Google in March 2018, it was not your typical employment discrimination lawsuit. Wilberg accused the company of favoring women and minorities in its...
View ArticlePro bono program seeks to break cycle of domestic violence
Ever since the Violence Policy Center, a research organization based in Washington, D.C., released the first of its annual studies of male-on-female lethal violence in the United States in 1998,...
View Article$150K verdict against sheriff’s office overturned
The South Carolina Court of Appeals has reversed a $150,000 malicious prosecution verdict awarded against the York County Sheriff’s Office, saying that the only reasonable conclusion that a sheriff’s...
View Article45-to-1 punitive damages award slimmed, but not scrapped
A family whose young daughter found a used syringe in a Target parking lot should keep some, but not all, of a jury’s $4.5 million punitive damages award, a divided South Carolina Court of Appeals...
View ArticleNew reform should increase inmates’ safety in prisons
For years, frantic families have asked the South Carolina Department of Corrections to relocate incarcerated loved ones who were assigned to cellmates with violent tendencies or committed violent...
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