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Torts, Boondoggles, and Forrest Fires

The state Senate passed the major tort reform bill, S. 244, by a vote of 35-7 on March 26, 2025. The bill now heads to the House with just weeks left in the legislative session.
Gavin Jackson
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SCETV
The state Senate passed the major tort reform bill, S. 244, by a vote of 35-7 on March 26, 2025. The bill now heads to the House with just weeks left in the legislative session.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for March 29, 2025: tort reform is done—in the Senate, for now; we catch up with Sen. Larry Grooms on his subcommittee’s report over the 1.8 billion dollar boondoggle and the recommendation to impeach Treasurer Curtis Loftis; the Table Rock Complex fires continue to burn more than 10,000 acres in the Upstate; and more!

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Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.