The family of a woman who remains in a coma after giving birth in a Columbia hospital in 2018 has settled a lawsuit against the treating hospital and the University of South Carolina for $2.1 million, her attorneys report. ...
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A man who became partially paralyzed after a hospital waited too long before sending him for an MRI exam has confidentially settled a case against the hospital for $1 million, his attorneys report. Bert “Skip” Utsey of Clawson Fargnoli ...
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The mother of a baby who suffered a hand injury after nurses failed to properly maintain an IV has settled a claim with the hospital where the baby was born and its owners for $320,000, the mother’s attorneys report. ...
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The husband of a woman who bled to death after delivering their baby has settled a lawsuit against the hospital where she gave birth for $550,000, her attorneys report. Francis “Brink” Hinson, formerly with the Finkel Law Firm and ...
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Palmetto Richland Hospital and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine have paid $950,000 to a woman after a surgical sponge was in her colon following a surgical procedure and stayed there for more than six months, her ...
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The family of a young girl with epilepsy who spent seven years living with an electrode that was mistakenly left on the surface of her brain has confidentially settled a lawsuit with the at-fault hospital for $730,000, the family’s ...
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A York County jury has ordered a Rock Hill radiology practice and one of its doctors to pay $1 million to a woman whose husband died after the doctor failed to inform emergency room physicians that the husband had broken ...
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A woman whose baby died after she gave birth in prison has settled a lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Corrections and its health care providers for $1.15 million, her attorneys report. Chris Mills of Columbia said that ...
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A federal judge in Tennessee has awarded the son of a U.S. Army soldier a $15.1 million bench verdict in a medical malpractice suit in which he suffered permanent brain damage during birth that led to cerebral palsy, the ...
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A Marlboro County jury has awarded almost $908,000 in actual damages to a man was denied any treatment for opioid withdrawal during a 27-day incarceration in the county’s detention center in 2015. The verdict, which illustrates how the ripple effects ...
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