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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  The family of a man who drowned after walking into the ocean during a hurricane shortly after he was discharged from Grand Strand Regional Medical Center has won a $3.5 million medical malpractice verdict against the employer of the ...

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  The family of a pregnant mother of two who died at the age of 30 has settled a medical malpractice claim against an emergency room physician for $2.6 million, the family’s attorney reports. John Kassel of Kassel McVey in ...

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A woman who was severely burned by a heating pad that she was lying on while she underwent breast augmentation surgery has confidentially settled a lawsuit for $700,000, her attorneys report. William Applegate and David Lail of Yarborough Applegate in ...

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  The family of a man who allegedly died as a result of a drug mix-up while he was being treated for leukemia at a VA hospital in Columbia has settled a lawsuit against the U.S. government for $800,000, the ...

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