A Richland County bodybuilder convicted in a 2002 murder of his bodybuilder friend will get a new trial, Rick Brundrett reported in the January 21, 2009 edition of The State Newspaper.
Eric Rife was indicted for murder in September 2001….
The United States District Court of South Carolina awarded $7.9 million to cancer patients in a breach-of-contract suit against two insurance companies, reports Fred Horlbeck in the January 12, 2009 edition of South Carolina Lawyer’s Weekly.
The Court’s decision resolves the parties’…
Insurers must make a meaningful offer of underinsured motorist coverage even when selling policies to sophisticated corporations that have repeatedly rejected the optional coverage, the Supreme Court has ruled in response to certified questions from federal court.
In an August 22 decision,…
A former Collins Entertainment president received a $3 million verdict Thursday in a dispute against his former friend and boss, Fred Collins, Jr.
Andy Paras reported in the August 8, 2003 edition of The Greenville News, that a Greenville County jury awarded J….
The key witness for an Elgin lumber plant facing a negligence lawsuit said he lied to a jury last week in federal court, prompting a $1.5 million settlement Friday, Clif LeBlanc reported in the December 8, 2002 edition of The State Newspaper….
Read MoreSoon an estimated 56,000 elderly residents will receive nearly every penny owed them by the State of South Carolina, Kenneth A. Harris reported on May 9, 2001 in The State Newspaper.
The State Budget and Control agreed Tuesday to pay up to $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of the residents 85 and older who did not receive a one-cent sales tax exclusion as provided by law….
Jurors took 2 1/2 hours to decide that the South Carolina Department of Education was to blame for the 1996 traffic death of an 8-year-old Beech Island girl, reported Kathy Steele of the Augusta Chronicle (GA). The jury awarded $910,000 in damages….
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