SILVA FOR ESTATE OF SILVA v. ALLSTATE

Opinion No. 27838.

424 S.C. 512 (2018)

818 S.E.2d 753

Patti SILVA, as personal representative FOR the ESTATE OF Adrian SILVA, Plaintiff, v. ALLSTATE PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed August 29, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward K. Pritchard, III , of Pritchard Law Group, LLC, of Charleston, for Plaintiff.

R. Hawthorne Barrett , of Columbia, and Robert E. Kneece, III and John S. Wilkerson, III , of Charleston, all of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., for Defendant.


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