Surprise ending to trial

A surprise ending to the Oconee Common Pleas Court trial in Walhalla.  Just as a court officer announced the jury had reached a verdict, a lawyer for the plaintiff said both sides had reached a settlement and there would be no verdict.  The settlement entered on the record is a confidential financial agreement, and parties afterward were saying were very little or nothing at all.  Judge Cordell Maddox approved the settlement and said that 25% percent of the settlement would be apportioned for wrongful death, while 75% is apportioned for survival action.   Russell Reynolds III of Walhalla, son of the later Dorothy Reynolds, told Maddox that he was satisfied with the settlement and satisfied with the representation of his attorneys–a group of lawyers from Spartanburg.  Reynolds went to trial against  SSC of Seneca operating company of Seneca Health and Rehabilitation, along with two other entities that his attorneys said were associated with the facility.  The plaintiff alleged that Mrs. Reynolds developed body sores and became malnourished as the result of nursing home care that fell below what’s considered to be the standard of care for which  someone in her position was entitled.