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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A South Carolina veteran who claimed that a radiologist with the Veterans Administration failed to identify a cancerous mass in his lower back has settled his case with the U.S. government for $2.5 million, his attorneys report. Attorneys Harry Goldberg, ...

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  A paralyzed Vietnam War veteran from Columbia settled a suit with the U.S. government for $3.2 million in October after he offered evidence that the Veterans Affairs hospital that treated him failed to send him to a spine surgeon, ...

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A South Carolina woman who had three limbs amputated after Crohn’s disease led to sepsis has settled a lawsuit against a hospital, her doctor, a surgeon, and a gastroenterologist for $16.4 million, her attorney reported. The then 18-year-old was playing ...

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The family of a man who died of cancer after his doctor told him he was cancer-free has reached a $6 million settlement with the doctor’s practice, the plaintiff’s attorney reports. The settlement was unusually large because of the defendant’s ...

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The estate of a Midlands woman who died after allegedly being improperly prescribed a weight-loss drug has reached a $750,000 confidential medical malpractice settlement with the woman’s physician, the attorney for the estate reports. Francis “Brink” Hinson of the Finkel ...

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As relevant to this case, S.C. Code Ann. § 15-32-230 provides protection from a medical malpractice claim when the alleged negligent act was (1) taken by a physician (2) during emergency surgery and (3) occurred within the surgical suite. The ...

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The South Carolina Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act caps damages at $1.2 million for each occurrence in which a physician is involved in the alleged tort. Given plaintiff’s allegations against two doctors and a physician’s assistant over several months, the ...

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As of May 21, 2014, plaintiff knew she had sepsis and faced amputations; however, it appears that neither she nor her doctors were clear as to the underlying cause of her injury: that failure to diagnose and/or treat her abdominal ...

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