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About the Seminar
Join the South Carolina Bar CLE Division for a review of the first comprehensive book on insurance bad faith in South Carolina, Insurance Bad Faith: The Law in South Carolina. Distinguished faculty, representing both the plaintiff and defense perspectives, will provide discussions including a primer on insurance bad faith; third-party claims and damages (Tyger River); the objectively reasonable standard for an insurer's good/bad faith; first-party claims and damages (Nichols), as well as other first-party claims relating to long-term care, disability, life insurance and other non-auto claims; standing needed to bring a claim; procuring assignment of third-party claims; insurance defense counsel's perspective; discovery from insured/assignee's and insurer's perspective; and a roundtable discussion on default judgment, insurance bad faith, and the role of personal counsel, and ethical issues. 

Seminar Agenda
Introduction and Welcome
David B. Yarborough, Jr., Yarborough Applegate, LLC, Charleston
Primer on Insurance Bad Faith in South Carolina
Reynolds H. Blankenship, Jr., Yarborough Applegate, LLC, Charleston
3rd Party Claims and Damages (the Tyger River Doctrine)
David B. Yarborough, Jr.
The Objectively Reasonable Standard for an Insurer’s Good/Bad Faith
James B. Hood, Hood Law Firm, LLC, Charleston
1st Party Claims and Damages (Nichols) – UM/UIM Claims
Bert G. “Skip” Utsey, III, Clawson Fargnoli Utsey, LLC, Charleston
1st Party Claims for Long-Term Care, Disability, Life Insurance, and Other Non-Auto Coverage
David B. Lail, Yarborough Applegate, LLC, Charleston
Standing to Bring a Civil Action for Insurance Bad Faith
Brandt R. Horton, Clement Rivers, LLP, Charleston
Procuring Assignment of the 3rd Party Bad-Faith Claim
David B. Yarborough, Jr.
Insurance Defense Counsel’s Perspective: Staying in Your Lane When the Insurer and Insured Are in Conflict
J. Blanton O’Neal IV, Hood Law Firm, LLC, Charleston
Roundtable: Default Judgments, the Role of Personal Counsel, Assignments, and Ethical Issues
Panel: David B. Yarborough, Jr., J. Blanton O’Neal IV, James B. Hood, Bert G. “Skip” Utsey, III
Moderator: Reynolds H. Blankenship, Jr.
Discovery from the Insured/Assignee’s Perspective: Request More Than Just the Claim File
Reynolds H. Blankenship, Jr.
Discovery from the Insurer's Perspective: Addressing Claims that Attorney-Client Communications Are "At Issue" and Thus Discoverable
James B. Hood
Adjourn 

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 6.0 MCLE credit hours, including up to 1.0 LEPR credit hour.

This seminar is an Intermediate level program.

Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2025, please use this course code: 252988ADO.

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