South Carolina Settlements

• $227M Settlement Final in FedEx Drivers Employment Class Action Lawsuit (May-4-17)
• Preliminary Settlement Reached in Hardee’s Hepatitis A Class Action Lawsuit (Mar-2-17)
• $9M Settlement Reached in Wonder Bread Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit (Dec-12-16)
• $124M Settlement Reached in Risperdal Case (Mar-14-16)
• $9.9M Awarded in Amusement Park Accident Lawsuit (Aug-13-13)
• $7.8 Billion Settlement Approved In BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Class Action Lawsuit (Dec-24-12)
• $173M Settlement Reached in Chip Antitrust Suit (Jun-29-10)
• Medicare Fraud Marion County Medical Center to pay $36,404 settlement in insurance lawsuit. (May-22-08)
• 8th Molestation Victim School district agrees to pay $500,000 settlement in abuse lawsuit. (May-8-08)
• Property Overlap Developer offers $100,000 settlement in encroachment lawsuit. (Apr-14-08)
• Sandbags Washed Out Wild Dunes to pay $18,000 settlement in littering lawsuit. (Apr-14-08)
• Toxic Spill Forces Closure Norfolk Southern to pay undisclosed settlement in textile mill lawsuit. (Apr-8-08)
• Auto Accident Fatalities Craft to pay $1.85 million settlement in car crash lawsuit. (Mar-22-08)
• Prisoners Win Suit Greenville County to pay $80,000 settlement to infected prisoners. (Mar-10-08)
• Teacher Student Abuse Beaufort County agrees to pay $300,000 settlement to abuse victim. (Feb-21-08)
• False Arrest City of Greer pays $50,000 settlement after imprisoning a woman whose charges had been dismissed years earlier. (Feb-19-08)
• Dredging Permit South Island Dredging Association and Safe Harbor Sediment Recovery of Savannah pay $494,000 fine for pollution and zone management violations. (Feb-8-08)
• Domestic Violence Death City of Iva pays $31,500 settlement after police shot an abuse husband to death. (Feb-6-08)
• Financial Fraud Charleston Southern University agrees to $3.9 million settlement after an economist swindled investors from his university office. (Feb-6-08)
• County Supervisor Oconee County agrees to pay a former employee a $75,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Feb-6-08)
• Coolant Oil City of Seneca pays $40,000 EPA fine to help clean up contamination. (Jan-29-08)
• Teenager Initiation Family awarded $200,000 after their 14-year-old son died after being punched in the chest by fellow students. (Nov-29-07)
• Misdiagnosed Appendicitis Family awarded $400,000 medical malpractice settlement. (Nov-26-07)
• Property Tax Revenue City of Columbia pays Richland County $5.5 million settlement for mismanaged funds. (Nov-14-07)
• Principal Removed Beaufort County School District pays former principal $60,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Nov-13-07)
• Clam Farmers Evergreen and Norfolk Dredging Co. pay $1.8 million settlement for an oil spill that destroyed crop. (Oct-22-07)
• Inland Port Taxes CaroLinks pays state and federal government over $500,000 in back taxes. (Oct-20-07)
• Mentally Retarded Rape Babcock Center pays $250,000 to settle allegations. (Oct-4-07)
• Longshoreman Personal Injury State Ports Authority pays $13.2 million settlement after worker gets crushed under shipping container. (Oct-2-07)
• Landrum, SC $160,000 settlement in whistleblower retaliation lawsuit. (Aug-18-07)
• Tega Cay, SC Over $200,000 payout ends golf course management dispute. (Jul-9-07)
• Lexington County Joint Municipal Water & Sewer Authority et al. $830,000 settlement in water contamination, environmental lawsuit. (Jun-8-07)
• Beaufort County School District $4.5 million settlement in school abuse lawsuit. (Jun-7-07)
• Landair Transport, Great West Casualty Co. and Axis Surplus Insurance Co. Woman sues for wrongful death of her husband, gets $3.5 million as compensation. (Feb-22-07)
• Old South Restaurant and Duke Manufacturing Co. $528,000 salmonella poisoning death settlement. (Nov-13-06)
• R.R. Hilton Head II and Charter Oak Group $3.6 million settlement awarded to a store manager after tripping over an electrical grounding rod. (Nov-3-06)
• Schlumberger Technology Corp. $22 million settlement to help cleanup PCBs released into a local river and lake. (Feb-13-06)