Insurer’s Reconsideration Bid Denied In $3.8M Murdaugh Housekeeper Settlement Row

(August 26, 2024, 3:22 PM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, S.C. — A South Carolina federal judge denied an insurer’s motion for reconsideration of a ruling denying summary judgment to the insurer in its suit seeking a declaration that it is entitled to recover the $3.8 million it paid to settle a claim brought by the estate of Alex Murdaugh’s former housekeeper, which the estate never received due to the purported fraud of Murdaugh and his alleged conspirators, finding that the insurer failed to show any changes in law or new evidence to justify reconsideration....