Henry E. Grimball Principal

Phone: (843) 720-4615  |  Fax: (843) 723-7398  |  Email: hgrimball@buistmoore.com

Practice Areas
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Appellate Practice
Business Litigation
Civil Litigation
Insurance
Product Liability

Henry E. Grimball has tried over two hundred and fifty cases in the state and federal systems in his thirty five years of practice as a trial attorney. His clients include multi-national corporations and major national companies, including a variety of manufacturers and insurers. Mr. Grimball’s practice focuses primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, insurance law, products liability law, premises liability and appellate law. He has handled over thirty appeals to the South Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court and to the Federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. While most of his clients are defendants, he has obtained a number of multi-million dollar judgments and settlements representing claimants in personal injury, insurance bad faith, tax and medical malpractice actions. Commercial litigation clients include a multi-national corporation he has represented for the last ten years in a multi-million dollar intellectual property dispute. Mr. Grimball has handled products liability cases involving industrial machinery, electrical equipment, automobiles, kerosene heaters and other heating equipment and construction tools. He provides advice and handles suits involving complex insurance issues and has handled a wide variety of premises liability personal injury claims for both claimants and defendants. He is currently engaged in the defense of car dealerships in a class action with a nine figure exposure.

Representative Matters:

•	Plaintiff verdict of $3.1 million dollars in a bad faith insurance case involving a claim over a $95,000 life policy
•	Sustained on appeal dismissal of unfair trade practices class action involving a claim of over $13 million dollars against a car dealership
•	Settlements in excess of $6 million dollars on behalf of a claimant in separate medical malpractice cases brought against her surgeon and assisting third-party
•	Representation of insureds in hundreds of personal injury claims resulting from automobile and train wrecks, slip and falls, electrocutions, and product failures
•	Representation of a defendant in a series of multi-million dollar intellectual property cases, all resulting in summary judgments for the client
•	Plaintiff verdict of $1.1 million dollars in a tax/constitutional law claim
•	Settlement in excess of $2.5 million dollars on behalf of a claimant in a medical malpractice action

Selected Reported Decisions:

•	O’Leary-Payne v. RR Hilton Head, II, Inc. et. al., 371 S.C. 340, 638 S.E.2d 96 (Ct.App. 2006)
•	Ferguson v. Charleston Lincoln Mercury, Inc., 349 S.C. 558, 564 S.E.2d 94 (S.C. 2002)
•	South Carolina Property and Cas. Guar. Ass’n v. Jensen, 345 S.C. 512, 548 S.E.2d 880 (Ct.App. 2001)
•	State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Aytes, 332 S.C. 30, 503 S.E.2d 744 (S.C. 1998)
•	Rivers v. State, 327 S.C. 271, 490 S.E.2d 261 (S.C. 1997)
•	McGee v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 19 F.3d 11 (4th Cir. 1994)
•	State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Horry, 304 S.C. 165, 403 S.E.2d 318 (S.C. 1991)
•	Sherrill White Const., Inc. v. South Carolina Nat. Bank, 713 F.2d 1047 (4th Cir. 1983)

Educational Background:

•	University of South Carolina School of Law, 1974 - J.D.
	Society of Wig and Robe Law Review Honor Council
•	Oxford University, 1971
•	University of the South, 1970 - B.A., Summa Cum Laude
	Phi Beta Kappa Honors in Economics

Professional Background:

•	Buist Moore Smythe McGee P.A., Principal, 1997-Present
•	Grimball & Cabaniss, Partner, 1974-1996
•	Certified Federal and State Court Mediator

Honors:

•	The Best Lawyers In America, Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation

Professional Organizations:

•	American Board of Trial Advocates, 1994; Diplomate, 1999
•	Defense Research Institute
•	Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1981-Present
•	House of Delegates, South Carolina Bar, 1982-2000
•	South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, 1974-Present

Bar Admissions:

•	Approved Mediator, United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
•	Certified Circuit Court Mediator
•	South Carolina, 1974
•	United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1974
•	United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, 1974

Community Organizations:

•	City of Charleston, Council Member, 1975-1982
•	Charleston Library Society, President, 2006-2008
•	County of Charleston, Assistant County Attorney, 1982-1997
•	Historic Charleston Foundation, Trustee, Nine Years
•	Kanuga Conference Center, Board of Visitors, 1996-1999
•	Landmark Masonic Lodge, Master, 1976
•	Preservation Society of Charleston, Past President
•	St. Michael's Episcopal Church • Vestryman, 1975-1977 • Solicitor, 1995-Present • Licensed Lay Reader, 1999-Present
•	Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina, President, 2006-2008

Personal Information:

•	Married to Virginia Gayle, Son Henry, Daughter Emily