By Tara Jennings The family of a county solid waste department employee who was killed while collecting garbage along Union Highway has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Lula Dukes and Robert Lee Littlejohn, personal representatives of the estate of the late Ronnie Dukes, filed the complaint at the Cherokee County Courthouse against R. Vassey Logging
By Rachele E. Leonard A Spartanburg County jury has ordered a long-term care facility to pay more than $1 million to the family of a former resident who went into insulin shock due to a medication mistake. The family of Pearl Sinclair claimed negligence at White Oak Manor—Spartanburg left the woman with permanent brain damage.
300 railroad cars of dirt would be dumped in a landfill near Bishopville, raising concerns A company wants to send 300 railroad cars of radioactive dirt from New Jersey to South Carolina for burial in a mega garbage dump near Bishopville, rather than dispose of the waste in the Northeast.
Site’s owner ordered to pay damages to 6 Bishopville area residents A federal jury on Friday ordered the owner of a huge landfill in Lee County to pay $2.3 million in damages to six Bishopville area residents for causing a stench they say has made life miserable for them. The jury award against a division
We are attaching talking points that will be useful when discussing both rehabilitation services and habilitation services as essential services under State Insurance Exchange Programs required to be created pursuant to the Affordable Care Act. Persons suffering from a brain injury should receive adequate medical and rehabilitation services under the Affordable Care Act. The outcomes of
One of North America’s most prominent farm corporations has ties to the old fertilizer factory suspected of poisoning yards in a working-class neighborhood of south Columbia. Whether Canada’s Agrium Inc. would be liable for cleanup costs in Edisto Court off Rosewood Drive isn’t yet known. But federal regulators are looking for a person or company
Recent Comments