Johnny F. Driggers, of Goose Creek; Andrew S Radeker and Sarah M. Larabee, both of Harrison, Radeker & Smith, P.A., of Columbia, for Plaintiff. Robert M. Kennedy Jr., of Phelps Dunbar LLP, of North Carolina for Defendant

The following certified question is before the Court: May a person entitled to bring a dram-shop action against a business maintain a negligence action against the business's insurer where the insurer failed to notify the South Carolina Department of Revenue of the business's lapse in or termination of liquor liability coverage in violation of S.C. Code Ann. § 61-2-145(C) and the business did not have liquor liability coverage at the time of the underlying accident?

James D. George, Jr., and Graham L. Newman, both of Chappell, Smith & Arden, of Columbia, for plaintiff. Chris Ogiba of Moore & Van Allen, LLLC, of Charleston; and Scott M. Tyler of Moore & Van Allen PLCC of Charlotte, NC, all for defendant. Robert D. Moseley, Jr., and Robert C. Rogers, both of Moseley Marcinak Law Group LLP, of Taylors, for amici curiae the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and the South Carolina Trucking Association, Inc.

The Court will answer the following certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: Under South Carolina law, can an employer be subject to liability for harm caused by the negligent selection of an independent contractor?

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Deborah R.J. Shupe, both of Columbia, and Solicitor, Twelfth Judicial Circuit Edgar Lewis Clements, III, of Florence, for Petitioner. Appellate Defender Lara Mary Caudy, of Columbia, for Respondent.

A jury convicted Russell Levon Johnson of first-degree criminal domestic violence, and the court of appeals reversed. State v. Johnson, Op. No. 5788 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Jan. 13, 2021). We granted the State's petition for writ of certiorari to determine whether the court of appeals reversed on an unpreserved issue.

Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, both of Columbia, and Solicitor, Eighth Judicial Circuit David Matthew Stumbo, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

We granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in State v. Brown, Op. No. 2021-UP-253 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 7, 2021), which reversed the trial court's decision to grant Petitioner a new trial and remanded the case for more specific findings on the materiality of nondisclosed evidence. On appeal, we shall consider Petitioner's arguments that the court of appeals erred because he was entitled to a new trial under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963).