By Drennan Quattlebaum on August 22, 2025 | Torts

On July 23, 2025, the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a significant opinion, Caroll v. Isle of Palms Pest Control, Inc.,[1] providing much needed clarification on the application of the economic loss rule under South Carolina. The Court began by discussing the evolution of the economic loss rule as it emerged in the product liability… Read more

By Bryan Kelley on June 2, 2022 | Mechanic’s Liens

Many contractors in the region may be asking themselves this question right now.  Earlier this year, GT Real Estate Holdings, LLC, terminated its agreement with the City of Rock Hill for the construction of a new practice facility for the Carolina Panthers.  Construction on the project was already well underway.  Yesterday, GTRE filed a voluntary… Read more

By Andy Goldsmith, Jr. on February 23, 2022 | Suretyship

This is a question we sometimes get from contractors who are either on the receiving end of a payment bond claim for the first time or have deeper concerns about their current bonding relationship. An important first step is to review the fundamental difference between insurance policies (which provide coverage against the risk of defined… Read more

By Alan Jones on July 23, 2021 |

Insurance carriers for general contractors and subcontractors sued in any case alleging damages due to construction defects will often (but not always) aggressively seek to show they owe no duty to defend or indemnify their insureds for such claims. While the duty to defend is relatively broad (compared to the duty to indemnify) and is… Read more

By Alan Jones on March 12, 2020 | Best Practices, Contracts

Indemnification clauses run a close third for “Most Tortured Interpretations” in the history of the written word, just behind the United States Constitution and the lyrics to The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.” One would think that, by now, a razor-sharp indemnification clause would exist such that it would become essentially boilerplate language, with a… Read more