Business Notebook

Solarize South Carolina is to hold an informational workshop Tuesday in Columbia.

The workshop is designed to inform homeowners on solar technology, state and federal tax credits, rebates from SCE&G, financing options and to hear installers answer questions first hand.

Tuesday’s workshop will take place at the Green Learning Center at the Green Quad University of South Carolina. The 90-minute session begins at 6:30 p.m.

Greenville hospital pays $600,000 settlement

Greenville Health System has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a surgical patient who died after contracting an infection.

Court documents show the health care system offered $600,000 to settle claims arising from the Greenville hospital’s medical treatment of 59-year-old Ella Mae Mattison,The Greenville News reported.

General Motors’ faulty ignition switches were responsible for at least 124 deaths and 266 injuries, according to a fund set up to compensate the victims.

The fund, run by attorney Kenneth Feinberg, said Monday it has finished processing the 4,342 claims it received by the Jan. 31 deadline. Of those, 80 percent – or 3,499 – were deemed ineligible and 453 were deficient. Claimants could not appeal Feinberg’s decision.

Victims’ families are being offered compensation of at least $1 million each.

In the affected cars, the ignition switch can slip out of the “run” position, which causes the car to stall and disables the air bags.

IN BRIEF

▪  Wal-Mart Stores is cutting prices on thousands of products this week in a counterattack to Prime Day, an event Amazon.com is using to promote its subscription service. Wal-Mart will begin the sale on July 15, the same day as Amazon’s much-publicized promotion.

▪  A federal law crafted to fight the mob is giving marijuana opponents a new strategy in their battle to stop the expanding industry: racketeering lawsuits. A Colorado pot shop recently closed after a Washington-based group opposed to legal marijuana sued not just the pot shop but a laundry list of firms doing business with it – from its landlord and accountant to the Iowa bonding company guaranteeing its tax payments. Many of the plaintiffs agreed to stop doing business with Medical Marijuana of the Rockies, until the mountain shop closed its doors.

▪  American truck wars are heating up. Chevrolet, responding in part to new truck offerings from Ford and Fiat Chrysler’s Ram division, has refreshed its Silverado 1500 pickup only two years after the new model made its debut.

From Staff and Wire Reports.