This week, hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Charleston trial lawyers David Yarbrough, Liam Duffy, and Reynolds Blankenship of Yarborough Applegate about a March 1, 2024 trucking crash case tried in May 2026 in conservative, rural Chesterfield County, South Carolina, resulting in a record $30 million compensatory verdict.
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David Yarborough
David has a history of achieving ground-breaking and record-breaking jury verdicts and settlements for his injured clients. In May 2026 David and partners obtained the largest verdict (x10) in the history of Chesterfield County, S.C. with a $30 Million jury verdict against one of the largest trucking companies in North America for catastrophically injuring our client.
In December 2025, David and partners tried and won a first-of-its-kind Contribution action in South Carolina, achieving a landmark $11 million verdict.
In December 2023, David and partners obtained a $44.6 million jury verdict against Amazon.com, Inc in the first case ever to hold Amazon vicariously liable under an agency theory for the vicarious and negligent acts of its delivery drivers, who Amazon claims are independent contractors. This was the largest personal injury verdict ever awarded in conservative Dorchester County, (again x10) and is believed to be one of the largest jury verdicts in South Carolina history in an injury case not involving death. Read more about this case here, and listen to David and William discuss the case on the Great Trials Podcast in Episode 172 here. They are now handling these cases from coast to coast.
Reynolds Blankenship
Hailing from Fredericksburg, Virginia, attorney Reynolds Blankenship received his undergrad in political science and physics from the University of South Carolina before attending Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. At Loyola, Reynolds graduated summa cum laude and first in his class, and served as Articles Editor of the Loyola Law Review. He competed in London and Vienna as an oralist and brief writer on the moot commercial arbitration team, and received more than ten Law Excellence (CALI) awards.
Following law school, Reynolds clerked for (later Chief) Justice Costa M. Pleicones of the South Carolina Supreme Court before entering private practice in 2006. Reynolds has worked at some of the most prestigious defense firms in South Carolina, but has also represented many injured plaintiffs throughout his career. He has handled cases in every type of court in South Carolina, at all appellate and trial levels, and has served as lead counsel in jury and non-jury trials throughout the state.
Liam Duffy
Liam Duffy is a Partner and dynamic, high-motor trial lawyer with significant experience in complex, high-stakes injury and wrongful death cases. In the last several years alone, he has obtained over $250 million in jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of clients.
Liam’s practice focuses on representing people who have suffered catastrophic injuries—or families who have lost a loved one—because of negligent conduct. He has handled a variety of cases involving issues of workplace safety, products liability, tractor-trailer collisions, power line safety, dram shop liability, and more. And he has faced off in courtrooms against some of the world’s largest corporations including electrical utility companies, consumer and automotive product manufacturers, trucking companies, road construction contractors, and retail and hospitality enterprises.
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