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AUTO-OWNERS INS. CO. v. RHODES

No. 27316.

405 S.C. 584 (2013)

748 S.E.2d 781

AUTO-OWNERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Samuel W. RHODES; Piedmont Promotions, Inc.; Marion L. Eadon d/b/a C & B Fabrications; C & B Fabrications, Inc.; and Low Country Signs, Inc., Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided September 25, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Johnston Cox , of Gallivan, White & Boyd, PA, John Lucius McCants of Rogers Lewis Jackson Mann & Quinn, LLC, both of Columbia, for Petitioner.

William O. Sweeny, III , William Roberts Calhoun, Jr. , both of Sweeny Wingate & Barrow, PA, of Columbia, Creighton B. Coleman of Coleman Tolen & Swearingen, LLC, of Winnsboro, Bert Glenn Utsey, III , Matthew Vernon Creech , both of Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick, PA, of Walterboro, for Respondents.

Justice BEATTY.

Samuel W. Rhodes ("Rhodes") and Piedmont Promotions, Inc. ("Piedmont") sued Marion L. Eadon, d/b/a C & B Fabrication,1 for damages arising out of the faulty construction of three outdoor advertising billboard signs after one of the signs fell across Interstate 77. A Fairfield County jury returned a verdict for actual and punitive damages in favor of Rhodes ("the tort action"). At the time of the tort action, Eadon's...

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