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ed into law hemlepp is less venomous and more resigned to the new laws despite his fundamental opposition to the goal of the bill he recognizes that the lawyers his organization represents could have gotten off a lot worse on the other side of the issue the defense attorneys say the new law is a good start but wasn t as effective as it could have been gray culbreath president of the south carolina defense trial attorneys association said that the bill is a good one as a matter of perspective we have caps now and we didn t have any before he said there is a belief that something s better than nothing those mixed feelings are perhaps a reflection of the compromise between the bill introduced in the house of representatives and the bill that passed the senate the house s original hill was much stricter a 350 000 across the board cap on punitive damages with no exemptions but by the time the bill hit the governor s desk the punitive damage caps were more fluid 500 000 or no more than three times the compensatory damages for most cases rising to 2 million or four times compensatory damages in cases where the jury ruled that the business or person cut corners in order to rake in an unreasonable profit or if the defendant business or individual committed a felony in the process if the defendant is actually convicted of a felony caused harm intentionally or was under the influence of drugs or alcohol the case is exempted from caps altogether the amending and softening that the bill underwent while making its way through the legislative chambers made it into something that hemlepp begrudgingly admits isn t too bad i think the legislature did a very good job of educating themselves on something that was very complicated he said we don t believe in caps of any kind but what was passed in this bill is reasonable compared to other states but defense attorneys like culbreath can t help but lament some of the things that it left out one provision included in the original bill would have overturned a south carolina statute that disallows information about whether the plaintiff in an automobile accident was wearing a seatbelt in the senate that provision was taken out but culbreath said that the some in the trucking and manufacturing associations to whom he had spoken have said they wished it had been retained brian comer a columbia attorney who worked with the legislature on the proposed product liability aspects of the bill also acknowledged that the bill has been watered down from its original form however he adds that if the alternative would be to not have anything pass the new law is enough it s a compromise he said it does some good things there are some things that could have been done but overall there was something done in fact comer was happy that he and other product liability attorneys were successful in keeping the bill from being watered down any further the legislature briefly considered adding an amendment that would overturn the august 2010 ruling in branham v ford motor co which created the feasible design standard in cases that alleged a company created a defective product a plaintiff must demonstrate that the company could feasibly have manufactured a safer product had the case been overturned the plaintiff would only have to prove that the product did not live up to consumer expectations comer said that the issue is one that deserves another look but should be considered as a separate issue and not as an amendment to a larger bill we aren t necessarily averse to doing that but it needs to come at the end of a debate involving members of bar and academic community he said it shouldn t be something that happens at the eleventh hour even hemlepp acknowledges that the bill wasn t completely devastating to trial lawyers the scaj successfully added a provision to the bill that prohibits award caps from being disclosed to the jury by keeping the jury in the dark as to the award caps it left the jurors to determine what a fair award would be under the bill if the jury s punitive damage award exceeds the cap the plaintiff would get the maximum amount allowed by law c stuart mauney a defense trial lawyer in greenville said that even if the bill wasn t everything the business community hoped for it accomplished the ultimate goal of sending the message that south carolina was making an effort to become more business friendly having the caps in place mauney said creates a more positive business climate when executives make decisions about whether or not to do business in south carolina they make the decisions in part based on the state s lawsuit environment but terry haselden a spartanburg attorney who handles tort cases said the bill isn t good for much else he calls it a feel good bill that lawmakers can crow about to constituents but doesn t have much practical impact since punitive damages are extremely rare in south carolina the cases where the cap will come into play he said will be the most tragic ones where people are most severely hurt and the jury believes that the plaintiff deserves a higher sum in other words he said the ones that deserve it the most juries in south carolina are extremely conservative he said they rarely award punitive damages unless there s a darn good reason complete url http sclawyersweekly com news 2011 07 01 not all tort related wishes come true leave a comment posted in law tags brian comer collins and lacy gray culbreath sc state house south carolina civil justice coalition south carolina defense trial attorneys association tort reform posted by stefanie caraviello june 6 2011 tort reform passage i ve spent countless hours at the south carolina state house this session working alongside other business leaders to pass tort reform i am happy to say those logged hours have paid off after a coordinated effort on many fronts tort reform has been sent to the governor for signature below is a press release issued by the south carolina civil justice coalition on the bill and the work done on behalf of south carolina businesses for immediate release june 3 2011 for more information call joe jones 803 771 4271 with votes of 39 0 in the sc senate and 99 16 in the house of representatives for concurrence the business community moved the mark higher for tort reform when legislation passed both houses and was sent to the governor for signature this week the business community has a lot of people to thank for their efforts to bring meaningful lawsuit reform to the palmetto state said jj darby nifb sc state director and sccjc chair speaker bobby harrell worked with members to move the bill quickly through the house and senators larry martin and harvey peeler guided the legislation through the debate in the senate governor nikki haley s strong stand for tort reform and her frequent urging of passage also gave tremendous support to the effort cam crawford who served as sccjc executive director for eight years provided overall leadership and was the business community s chief negotiator harry lightsey former bellsouth at t general counsel and ceo and gray culbreath sc defense trial attorneys association president drew upon their extensive experience and that of their colleagues to keep the legislation on track rick todd president of the sc trucking association served as sccjc legislative chair and coordinated the lobbying effort this legislation was the second of two comprehensive lawsuit reform bills supported by the sc civil justice coalition the other having been passed by the legislature in 2005 the two bills have brought south carolina more in line with its sister southeastern states and they make the business environment better for current and prospective companies who employee south carolina people leave a comment posted in law tags business defense collins and lacy gray culbreath sccjc scta south carolina civil justice coalition south carolina trucking association tort reform posted by stefanie caraviello may 7 2011 dri regional meeting after a successful mediation yesterday i drove to asheville for the dri regional meeting the grand bohemian hotel is the venue lots of great defense bar leaders from across the 4th circuit leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by stefanie caraviello may 5 2011 bad blogger i have come to appreciate those bloggers who are diligent and post on a regular basis as i sit here today in the scdtaa deposition boot camp i realize it has been 2 months since i last posted so what have i been up to tort reform meetings hanging out in the state house lobby sometimes with mark joye museum commission meetings inn of court banquet scdtaa corporate counsel cle in columbia scdtaa legislative reception scdtaa pac golf tournament lawyers for civil justice meeting in washington fdcc p o committee this is all in addition to a full time law practice that has taken me up and down the east coast and across sc multiple times but it s not been all work i have also celebrated my 18th wedding anniversary went to amelia island for spring break lots of hammond girls soccer and softball wofford terrier club board meeting and supper with the senior athletes 4 days at the masters hanging out in front of the white house sunday night after seal team 6 did its job teaching my 15 year old daughter how to drive after today i am off to asheville for the dri regional meeting before that we have scdtaa s young lawyer happy hour tonight liberty leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by stefanie caraviello march 7 2011 short haired dogs dance wofford beats college of charleston 77 67 for the southern conference championship and a bid to the ncaa tournament i will be wherever the terriers are next weekend great win and great night with my pika brothers leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by stefanie caraviello march 7 2011 wofford basketball tonight my terriers play college of charleston for the southern conference championship and a second consecutive trip to march madness you can catch it on espn2 at 9pm i will be with a group of my fraternity brothers watching the action from here in columbia we won the tourney last year with a group of special players 5 of whom are this year s senior starters among the five is noah dahlman an all southern conference player and last year s conference player of the year who came to sparkle city via minnesota he is the kind of student athlete you want representing your school as evidenced by espn s story from earlier this year about noah and his wofford experience let s see the big dog eat some cougar tonight in chattanooga leave a comment posted in uncategorized tags basketball southern conference championship terriers wofford posted by stefanie caraviello march 7 2011 digital nation among the programs at last weeks fdcc joint meeting was one by rachel dretzin the producer and director of digital nation life on the virtual frontier a frontline documentary from last year although not directly legal related her presentation on the impact that technology has on our lives and that of our children was definitely worthwhile since many of the folks most absorbed by technology will soon be jurors in the course of her presentation she made one point that struck me as to my generation s place in time namely i am part of the last generation of people to know what life was like before the internet as i think about my own children s lives and the technology available to them it struck me just how immersed they have become with phones laptops and the like but it is not just younger people technology prevents all of us from slowing down or taking time out to even listen to a presentation like this one of my friends remarked that when he got up to leave the room to make a phone call that he looked back into the audience and at least half of rachel s audience had a laptop or pda up and in use that s irony we later saw portions of the frontline program showing testing done at stanford of college students which concluded that multi tasking is not effective and multitaskers typically are not more effective and actually lose information or don t process it properly multi tasking also contributes to one area that i see frequently the inability of people to write effectively mit students who were featured in the frontline documentary joked that they were only good for a paragraph at a time because of the distractions of digital media as the speaker stated accurately digital business is the enemy of depth because of the constant interruptions of email phone and the like there is less time spent for big ideas or big picture thinking interesting thoughts for us all leave a comment posted in uncategorized tags digital nation fdcc federation of defense corporate counsel gray culbreath social media posted by stefanie caraviello march 5 2011 headed home after a great fdcc mid year meeting waiting to take off from slc upgraded but word to the wise little ones in first class are not a good idea leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by stefanie caraviello march 3 2011 fdcc joint meeting this has been a busy week here in indian wells since getting here i have been in meetings most of the week and attending a lot of great cle i ll blog later in the week about today s program on the real american jury as well as the social media presentations from earlier in the week highlights from the week so far supper with friends from alabama mississippi tennessee rhode island and south carolina a polo match a few late nights an ipad and some bad golf among other things leave a comment posted in uncategorized tags collins and lacy federation of defense corporate counsel gray culbreath social media older posts categories law uncategorized where is gray today november 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 aug other blog resources abnormal use cafa law blog dri today blog scdtaa blog south carolina products liability law 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