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South Carolina Appellate Court Affirms Denial Of Nursing Home’s Motion To Compel Arbitration

May 9, 2019

In its opinion dated May 1, 2019, the Court of Appeals of the State of South Carolina (“South Carolina Appellate Court”) affirmed the circuit court’s denial of the defendant nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff’s nursing home negligence claims (s[...]

South Carolina Supreme Court Rules Quest Diagnostics Is A Licensed Health Care Provider

August 29, 2018

The South Carolina Supreme Court held in its opinion filed on June 27, 2018 that a genetic testing laboratory that performs genetic testing to detect an existing disease or disorder at the request of a patient’s treating physician is acting as a “licensed health care provider” unde[...]

$1.26M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Infant’s Hand Injury Due To IV Infiltration

May 29, 2018

On May 9, 2018, a South Carolina medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a one-month-old child and his mother in the amount of $1,127,280 for the infant and $135,477 for his mother, for the son’s hand injury due to IV infiltration into the back of his hand. The South Carolina[...]

Four South Carolina Breast Surgery Patients File Lawsuits Against Hospital After Acquiring Same Infection

May 4, 2018

Earlier this month, four patients who had breast reconstruction surgery following treatment for breast cancer at a South Carolina hospital and acquired the same type infection filed their South Carolina medical malpractice lawsuits against the hospital, alleging that the hospital knew but failed to [...]

South Carolina Supreme Court Holds Affidavit From Expert In Related Field Sufficient In Medical Malpractice Case

March 14, 2018

The South Carolina Supreme Court held in its decision issued on February 28, 2018 that the South Carolina medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert affidavit from a doctor who is not certified in or does not practice in the same area of medicine as the defendant doctor, but otherwise possesses sp[...]

South Carolina Appellate Court Applies Statute Of Repose To Overturn Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

February 26, 2018

The State of South Carolina Court of Appeals (“South Carolina Appellate Court”) overturned summary judgment that the trial court had entered in favor of the defendant physician and the defendant medical university in a case decided on February 7, 2018, finding that the circuit court erre[...]

South Carolina Appellate Court Reverses Directed Verdict For Physician In Lung Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

September 30, 2017

The South Carolina Court of Appeals stated in its opinion filed on September 14, 2017, “In this highly technical field, where there may not be clear markers indicating by what method a cancer spreads, it was an error of law to direct a verdict in favor of Respondents because Dr. Singer [the [...]

$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 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[...]

South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Surgery

April 14, 2012

On March 9, 2012, after a one-week trial before a South Carolina medical malpractice jury, the surviving husband of a woman who died in November, 2007 just three weeks after surgery, received a medical malpractice verdict in his favor in the amount of $2.4 million. The medical malpractice claim al[...]

South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Dentists Who Kept On Pulling…

December 18, 2011

When a 28-year-old woman had a cracked tooth, she sought treatment at a South Carolina dental clinic. The dentists did not only address the issue with the cracked tooth, they decided that all 16 of her upper teeth should be extracted (there was no medical reason to remove 13 of her teeth). The woma[...]

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