Deadly 2019 Boat Crash

A judge has denied the request from Parker’s Corporation asking to be dropped from a wrongful death lawsuit.

A Lexington County judge announced today that he will spend the next several weeks deciding if a lawsuit regarding the death of Mallory Beach will go before a jury.

An attorney working closely with the sale of the property says the deal is expected to be finalized next week for $3.7 million.

Nearly four years after a family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh and his family members, a judge approved a settlement agreement in the case, dropping the estate of Murdaugh’s wife and his surviving son.

Following a deadly boat crash in 2019 with ties to a prominent Lowcountry family, disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh, along with his wife and two sons, would be thrust into a years-long saga of unveiled tragedies and criminal accusations.

The trial involving a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Mallory Beach, the 19-year-old girl killed when a boat allegedly driven by Paul Murdaugh crashed, has been pushed back.

The wrongful death lawsuit for Mallory Beach will go to trial next January with all defendants present, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Lawyers representing the family of a woman killed in a 2019 boating accident asked a Hampton County judge to reverse a decision to separate the trials in their civil wrongful death suits.

Lawyers for Parker’s Corporation are asking for a separate trial in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The family who filed a civil suit against former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh released a statement on Murdaugh’s request to postpone that suit in court.