WILSON v. WILLIS

Opinion No. 27879.

426 S.C. 326 (2019)

827 S.E.2d 167

Richard WILSON, Michael J. Antoniak, Jr., Marsha L. Antoniak, Anita L. Belton, Prescott Darren Bosler, Johnny Calhoun, Sallie Calhoun, Cynthia Gary, Robert Wayne Gary, Eugene P. Lawton, Jr., Jeanette Norman, James Robert Shirley, Robert W. Spires, Crystal Spires Wiley, Lewis S. Williams, Janie Wiltshire, Benjamin Franklin Wofford, Jr., and Rebecca Hammond Wofford, Petitioners, v. Laura B. WILLIS and Jesse A. Dantice, individually and as agents and/or brokers for Southern Risk Insurance Services, LLC, Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America, Allied Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Peerless Insurance Company, Montgomery Mutual Insurance Company, Safeco Insurance Company of America, and Foremost Insurance Company, Southern Risk Insurance Services, LLC, Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America, Allied Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Peerless Insurance Company, Montgomery Mutual Insurance Company, Safeco Insurance Company of America, Foremost Insurance Company, and Laurie Williams, Defendants, Of Whom Peerless Insurance Company, Montgomery Mutual Insurance Company, and Safeco Insurance Company of America are the Respondents, and Of Whom Laurie Williams is Petitioner.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed April 10, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Hite, Jr. and Anne Marie Hempy , both of Hite and Stone, Attorneys at Law, of Abbeville; Jane H. Merrill , of Hawthorne Merrill Law, LLC, of Greenwood; and Leslie A. Bailey , Public Justice, of Oakland, California, for Petitioners.

C. Mitchell Brown , William C. Wood, Jr. , A. Mattison Bogan , all of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, of Columbia; and Robert C. Calamari , of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, of Myrtle Beach, for Respondents.


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