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$1.1M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital Negligence Leading To Death

June 28, 2017

On May 26, 2017, a South Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded the South Carolina medical malpractice wrongful death plaintiff $1 million in noneconomic damages and $103,054.10 in economic damages, after a four-day trial. The South Carolina medical malpractice jury determined that the defenda[...]

$13.75M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Triple Amputations

March 26, 2017

A 54-year-old South Carolina woman obtained a $13.75 million verdict on February 28, 2017 that was rendered by a South Carolina medical malpractice jury that included $10 million in economic damages and $3.75 million for her noneconomic losses as a result of having both of her legs amputated above t[...]

$1.5M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Emergency Room Negligence Leading to Death

October 29, 2016

On October 20, 2016, a South Carolina medical malpractice jury rendered a verdict in the amount of $1,500,000 in favor of the estate of a 41-year-old man whom the jury found to have been the victim of emergency room malpractice that led to his untimely death. The defendant was the for-profit corpora[...]

South Carolina Appeals Court Affirms Refusal To Compel Arbitration In Nursing Home Case

March 13, 2016

In its opinion filed on March 2, 2016, the South Carolina Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the lower court’s denial of the defendant nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration regarding the plaintiff’s wrongful death and survival action arising out the n[...]

$6.9M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misread Mammogram

February 4, 2016

A South Carolina medical malpractice jury has awarded $6.2 million to a woman whose suspicious mammogram was read as normal and who was later diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. The jury also awarded the woman’s husband $700,000 for his loss of consortium claim. The South Carolina medical m[...]

South Carolina Supreme Court Favors Substance Over Procedure In Medical Malpractice Cases

August 10, 2014

On July 23, 2014, the South Carolina Supreme Court stayed consistent with its prior decisions in medical malpractice cases that permit medical malpractice cases to proceed on the merits rather than to affirm unwarranted dismissals based on technical noncompliance with the medical malpractice statu[...]

South Carolina Maternity Center Sued After Baby Dies

May 21, 2014

The mother of a baby who died shortly before birth has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the South Carolina maternity center that had been caring for her during her pregnancy, alleging that the maternity center engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices by accepting her as a patient when i[...]

NY Nursing Home Hidden Camera Results In Criminal Charges Against 10

March 27, 2014

A loving son who was concerned that his father was being harmed in a New York nursing home took the bold step of placing a concealed camera in his father’s nursing home room to monitor and document the care (or lack of care) his father was receiving. The recordings from the hidden camera [...]

$2.85M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paraplegia

September 23, 2013

On September 13, 2013, a Horry County, South Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded a hospital emergency room patient and his wife $2.85 million ($2,300,000 to the man and $550,000 to his wife) for the paraplegia the man suffered as a result of medical malpractice at the hospital. The manR[...]

South Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawsuits For Sex Reassignment Surgery

June 2, 2013

A South Carolina couple has filed both a state medical malpractice lawsuit and a federal medical malpractice lawsuit regarding their now 8-year-old adopted child’s sex reassignment surgery that took place when the child was in foster care and the child was 16-months old (three months before[...]

South Carolina Hospital Hit With $40 Million Verdict For Illegal Kickbacks

May 11, 2013

After four weeks of trial in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, on May 8, 2013 a South Carolina hospital was found to have paid illegal kickbacks to 19 doctors and wrongfully billed Medicare almost $40 million between 2005 and 2009 to have the doctors continue to[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

September 8, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina: Maryland MD. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, Code Ann. § 3-2A-02 (2012) § 3-2A-02. Exclusiveness of procedures(1) In any a[...]

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