- Posts by Samuel J. Person
AssociateSamuel Person is an associate on Moore & Van Allen's Litigation group. He focuses his practice on Commercial Litigation, and Transportation, Infrastructure & Logistics matters to assist client’s distinct needs by developing ...
Long has the inconsistent expansion and contraction of the economic loss rule and its exceptions frustrated South Carolina jurists and practitioners alike. Now, the South Carolina Supreme Court hopes to provide clarity by “clearing out...the thicket that had grown around [the Court’s] past economic loss rule precedent” through its decision in Carroll v. Isle of Palms Pest Control, Inc.[1] After years of loose play with the reins of the economic loss rule, the Court has firmly haltered it back to its original purpose of application in product liability cases, but such restrictions may come at a cost to service providers.
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