About Paul Coyle
Paul Coyle was raised in Summerville, South Carolina. In 2013 he moved to Columbia to continue his education and graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina in 2017 with a B.S. in Global Supply Chain and Operations Management. He earned his Juris Doctor from the USC Joseph F. Rice School of Law in 2020.
As a first-generation attorney, he has dedicated his career to representing injured clients and their families in catastrophic personal injury cases involving product defects, automobile and motorcycle collisions, trucking accidents, premises liability, and wrongful death. He has advocated for clients across South Carolina, Washington, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. Columbia Business Monthly named him to its Legal Elite list in the Products Liability category for the Midlands in 2023.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Kenneth Berger
These results are credited to Kenneth Berger. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Kenneth Berger secured a $26 million settlement for the family of a three-year-old who suffered severe chemical burns at Caribbean Resort and Villas in Myrtle Beach after a pool employee falsified chlorine records for years.
A 21-year-old driver who was overserved at two Spartanburg bars struck and killed two cousins at over 70 mph, leading to a $7.36 million wrongful death settlement paid by the bars and the driver.
Travis Butler, 19, was driving to work in January 2016 when a drunk driver crossed the center line and hit him head-on, leaving him with seven broken bones, a liver laceration and seven surgeries. His dram shop suit against the driver and Hickory Tavern in Columbia settled for $3 million in January 2019. The driver had pleaded guilty to DUI resulting in great bodily injury.
Douglas Mincey, a retired engineer and author, was rear-ended on I-95 in Jasper County in March 2016 by a driver who had been drinking. He had a lower back injury that required several surgeries and concussive symptoms. His underinsured motorist carrier, USAA, agreed to pay $2 million on April 6, 2018, before the case reached the jury roster.
A Navy veteran who was sent home from the Charleston VA with back pain developed a spinal epidural abscess that went untreated for days, leaving him permanently paralyzed in both legs; the Law Office of Kenneth E. Berger recovered a $1 million federal settlement.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
