Many media outlets and bloggers are reporting that punitive damages awarded in the Williams vs. Philip Morris saga will remain at their 100-1 ratio of actual, or compensatory, damages.
This is great news for:
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Embracing the recent Spring like days with open arms, I awoke on Wednesday, March 25, 2009, to a light rain, dark clouds, and cold weather. Nothing outside the normal as we had still not approached the 85-95 degree days of a “Southern Summer” but we had enjoyed a teaser of warm temperatures.
Premises liability is often times referred to as "slip and fall" law. A general overview of South Carolina premises liability indicates that:
There was an interesting article put out by the Associated Press in the Sunday edition of the Greenville News, entitled "Deaths Leave Online Friends in Limbo".
The article discussed the importance of having a contingency plan for those passwords, secrets, and other bits of extremely important information that you have stored inside your
A brief introduction as previously reported by Paul Kiel for ProPublica:
As we’ve noted before [1], the main cause of AIG’s collapse was its credit-default swap portfolio. The swaps were essentially insurance contracts on securities, and for a fee, AIG guaranteed the security’s value. The problem: If the prices of the securities collapsed, AIG
Recently two things happened that made me realize I should help highlight this point for my fellow South Carolinians.
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My question to every single one of you out there is, "What service do you pay for all your life but get penalized for using?" If your guess was INSURANCE ding, ding, ding, you win.
I’m sick and tired of people coming into my office shocked and dismayed that their insurance company would "drop" them
I apologize to those devout readers that were obviously starved for new blog entries. Or should I just say devout reader, Austin Watts. Another friend of mine, Michael Dixon, and I most recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico for a long weekend of R&R. I thought I would come back with inspiration but I just came