The State: Columbia area woman, 85, wins $2.5 million in lawsuit over hazardous walkway

Wyche attorneys Jessica FicklingJohn Moylan, and Brian Critzer secured a $5 million jury verdict in Richland County on behalf of a client who sustained life-altering injuries due to unsafe conditions in a condominium community.

The following article was published in The State on September 16, 2025.


The State article

 

At 82, Gloria Minnick was an unusually active senior citizen — she parachuted, gardened, bowled, pet-sat and cleaned houses. But when she tripped and fell on an outdoor path at her Columbia area condominium, she broke her right hip. The operation to repair it and subsequent infections ended her active life.

That’s not the end of the story. On Aug. 28, after a four-day trial, a Richland County jury awarded Minnick a $2.5 million verdict, holding the condominium association, called the Forest Lake Place Horizontal Property Regime, liable for her life-changing injuries.

Read the full story at TheState.com.

 

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