South Carolina Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
16 independently-sourced personal injury results from South Carolina firms, largest first. Filter by practice area or result type. Each links to the full story, the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
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A federal jury awarded $262.5 million after finding that a defective rear liftgate latch on a 1985 Dodge Caravan caused a six-year-old boy to be ejected and killed in a 1994 crash; the punitive damages were later reversed on appeal and the case settled confidentially in 2001.
Kenneth Berger secured a $26 million settlement for the family of a three-year-old who suffered severe chemical burns at Caribbean Resort and Villas in Myrtle Beach after a pool employee falsified chlorine records for years.
A federal jury awarded $17 million to the surviving relatives of a Canadian Army private, his wife, and their infant son killed when an XPO Express 18-wheeler plowed into slowed construction-zone traffic on Interstate 95 near Florence, South Carolina.
After multiple York County bars served alcohol to a teenager who then killed his 22-year-old passenger in a crash, Kenneth Berger secured an $8.35 million wrongful death settlement on behalf of the victim's family.
A 21-year-old driver who was overserved at two Spartanburg bars struck and killed two cousins at over 70 mph, leading to a $7.36 million wrongful death settlement paid by the bars and the driver.
A Berkeley County apartment complex that failed to equip its pool gates with code-required latching hardware settled the wrongful death claim of a three-year-old boy's family for six million dollars.
Joye Law Firm recovered $5 million for the estate of a Goodwill custodian killed when a terminal tractor with broken headlights made an illegal U-turn and struck her in a Joint Base Charleston parking lot.
A South Carolina man rear-ended by a drunk driver who fled the scene recovered $3.6 million after the driver's employer disputed vehicle ownership and scope of employment, with cervical fusion and knee surgery documented.
A St. Louis man who suffered permanent bilateral brain damage after an Audi SUV ran him over on a Charleston sidewalk in 2017 settled the resulting federal lawsuit for $3.5 million in July 2020.
A Dorchester County jury awarded $2.2 million to a Summerville plumber who suffered cervical disc herniation and spinal cord compression after being rear-ended at a traffic light, believed to be the largest automobile accident verdict in the county's history.
A plumber rear-ended at a Dorchester County stoplight won a $2.2 million jury verdict in 2018, then secured a $2.15 million global settlement the following year after Geico faced a bad-faith lawsuit for refusing to tender its $50,000 policy limits before trial.
A Lexington County jury awarded $2 million to Donna Roland, 60, after she tripped on a three-inch gap in a county sidewalk and broke her arm in two places while dropping off an absentee ballot during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A loaded dump truck whose brakes had been flagged for replacement the day before crossed into oncoming traffic and struck an active-duty Air Force servicemember head-on, fracturing his hip, leg, and arm; the case settled for $1.225 million in April 2023.
A Navy veteran who was sent home from the Charleston VA with back pain developed a spinal epidural abscess that went untreated for days, leaving him permanently paralyzed in both legs; the Law Office of Kenneth E. Berger recovered a $1 million federal settlement.
A three-year-old boy was found unconscious and hanging from a jump rope at a Lancaster, South Carolina daycare in September 2013, suffering a traumatic brain injury from oxygen deprivation; his family recovered a $1 million settlement in 2016.
A Richland County jury awarded $897,500 to a 28-year-old Army soldier, including $538,500 in punitive damages, after a chain-reaction rear-end crash on I-26 left him with shoulder and back injuries that forced a medical discharge.