Amusement ride injury results in $9.9 million settlement 
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: October 2, 2012
Tags: amusement parks, carnival ride, head injury, South Carolina
A South Carolina lawyer has negotiated a $9.9 million settlement for a client who was injured on an amusement ride last summer.
Must a promotional pen include the attorney’s address?
Published: August 21, 2012
Tags: attorney advertising, North Carolina, Rules of Professional Conduct
An obscure North Carolina Rule of Professional Conduct says attorneys and law firms have to include their office address on advertising, but what does a virtual lawyer do? And what about those pens, key chains and other items lawyers like to hand out to clients?
Lawyer/filmmaker fights tort reform with ‘Hot Coffee’
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: July 6, 2012
Tags: Hot Coffee, tort reform
The average Joe may have no idea what a tort is, but nearly everyone knows about the woman who got rich from suing a fast-food restaurant over a spilled cup of joe.
Man left paralyzed after car crash collects $13 million
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: April 11, 2012
Tags: car crash, North Carolina, paralysis
A 41-year-old North Carolina man who was looking forward to the birth of his first child when he was involved in a traffic crash that left him paralyzed and unable to breathe on his own has settled a personal injury lawsuit for $13 million.
Ousted preacher collects award for libel, slander
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: October 24, 2011
Tags: breach of contract, libel, slander, South Carolina, tax evasion, wrongful discharge
After a relatively minor tax mistake triggered a series of increasingly bitter and bizarre spats between a South Carolina pastor and the church he led for 18 years, a jury ultimately awarded him a six-figure verdict for his suffering.
S.C. jury awards $4.7 million in toxic chemical case
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: August 15, 2011
Tags: chemical exposure, disability, evidence, nerve damage, South Carolina
A pair of South Carolina attorneys recently won millions in a personal injury case after rejecting a low ball settlement offer and overcoming a lack of medical evidence to prove the cause of their client’s life-altering disability.
S.C. governor signs tort reform bill limiting punitives into law
Published: August 5, 2011
Tags: compensatory damages, damages caps, punitive damages, tort reform
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has signed a new tort reform law that caps punitive damages.
Defense team scores big win for cigarette giant
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: June 17, 2011
Tags: cigarettes, defective design, Massachusetts, Philip Morris, smoking, tobacco, wrongful death
When Stephen C. Haglund proposed to his wife, he flipped open a pack of Marlboro cigarettes to reveal the engagement ring. He thought nothing of trudging through a New England blizzard just to buy smokes. And he kept on puffing even after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
$6.7 million awarded for student’s fatal fall
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: March 7, 2011
Tags: consumer protection, premises liability, treble damages
A pair of attorneys who failed to persuade a jury that building code violations at a Boston bar resulted in a college student’s fatal fall down a staircase still managed to walk out of court with a $6.7 million award.
Case seeks remedy for post-‘Ibanez’ title issue
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: February 7, 2011
Tags: foreclosures, quitclaim deed, U.S. Bank v. Ibanez
The eyes of the nation’s mortgage industry are fixed once again on Massachusetts’ highest court, which has taken on another high-stakes foreclosure case that picks up where U.S. Bank v. Ibanez left off.
