When businesses commit to safe alcohol service, they play their part in keeping drunk drivers off the roads and making our communities safer.
In a dram shop case stemming from a deadly July 4, 2019, hit-and-run in which a drunk driver hit a cyclist, Yarborough Applegate attorneys Liam Duffy and David Yarborough recently obtained a key court ruling on behalf of the cyclist’s family.
After leaving a birthday party, a driver who admitted to consuming high gravity beers ran into our client who was riding a moped. Yarborough Applegate partner David Lail was able to negotiate a $950,000 settlement on our client’s behalf from the insurance company, despite the drunk driver only carrying a minimum limits liability policy. “South Carolina […]
Our co-founding partner, David Yarborough, spoke about dram shop and alcohol liability cases at the South Carolina Black Lawyers Association in the Columbia Convention Center on Friday, October 18, taking the stage with fellow personal injury attorneys Garryl Deas and Marc Brown.
After a drunk driver struck a pedestrian working on a nighttime road paving crew and fled the scene of the accident, Yarborough Applegate secured a $3.75 million settlement for the victim from both the driver and restaurant.