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CHARLESTON, SC — RPWB asbestos attorney Karl Novak is presenting at the 2015 Plaintiff Asbestos Litigation Seminar in Las Vegas this week. Novak has spent several months researching the genealogy of asbestos and mesothelioma litigation, including the evolution of case law and the attorneys involved in it. Fresh from piecing together his own family tree, […]

CHARLESTON, SC – Former employees of American LaFrance, a defunct Moncks Corner fire truck manufacturer, will receive compensation for owed salary and benefits stemming from the plant’s sudden shutdown in January 2014 under the terms of a proposed settlement between the parties. Workers arrived at the plant on January 17, 2014 to learn that the […]

CHARLESTON, SC – RPWB attorney Charles W. Patrick, Jr. has been named a “Lawyer of the Year” for the Charleston market in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers of America©. The designation, this time for plaintiff product liability litigation, marks the fourth time Patrick has been named as lawyer of the year. He was selected for […]

CHARLESTON, SC – An Indiana bus maker has settled two class action lawsuits brought by a Charleston law firm that will result in a recall of more than 8,000 shuttle buses to ensure that the vehicles comply with federal safety standards. Starcraft Bus manufactured the buses between 2002 and 2007, but failed to weigh the […]