Principal's civil liability
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 86 F. Supp. 2d 721 - Kenneth Henes Special Projects Procurement v. Continental Biomass Industries, Inc. (2000)
Most recently applied in Williamson & Co. v. Middleton (July 2009)
1988 Act No. 489, eff May 2, 1988.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A principal who fails to comply with the provisions of Section 39-65-20 is liable to the sales representative in a civil action for:
(1) all amounts due the sales representative plus punitive damages in an amount not to exceed three times the amount of commissions due the sales representative; and
(2) attorney's fees actually and reasonably incurred by the sales representative in the action and court costs.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.