Medical Malpractice

As medical malpractice attorneys, we fight against injustice every day: for our clients in North and South Carolina, and on behalf of clients throughout the country. We have tackled some of the most complex mass tort litigation on record, stood up to major insurance companies, and held firm against negligent medical professionals and hospitals. We…

Partners Chad McGowan and Johnny Felder won a $13.75 million verdict against the Aiken Regional Medical Centers in South Carolina after doctors delayed treating a patient with sepsis – a failure that eventually cost the victim three of her limbs. This was an extraordinary case of medical negligence, and all of us at McGowan, Hood,…

Spencer Kolman was just 16 months old when he was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer made up of cells that would normally develop into skeletal muscles. For the next year, he was aggressively treated with a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and multiple surgeries. The treatments were ultimately successful, and Spencer was declared cancer free. Unexpected…

On December 30th, the Washington Post ran a piece about medical malpractice and “tort reform,” the euphemism lawmakers use to describe damage caps. According to the Post, legislators “say a medical malpractice crisis is threatening U.S. health care: Frivolous lawsuits are driving up malpractice insurance premiums and forcing physicians out of business.” But that’s untrue,…

Did you ever think that the time of day that your surgery was performed may have had an impact of your chances of dying during the procedure? (Frightening thought, right?) A study conducted by Canadian researchers and presented at the World Congress of Anesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong, reports that people who are operated on…

After a short break, the national spotlight is back on the shoddily run Department of Veterans Affairs. USA Today recently reported that the agency illegally stopped sharing quality of care information with the Department of Health and Human Services over the summer. This new failure prevents access to healthcare information that could mean the difference…

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in this country. Sometimes those errors are so egregious, such an obvious case of medical malpractice, that it is hard to understand how they could have occurred in the first place. Take the heartbreaking case of August de los Reyes. He is the design head for…

In 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs paid out $98 million for medical malpractice claims. Just four years later in 2015, that number rose to a truly staggering $338 million. The VA downplayed the number, but the abysmal care that veterans receive at the hands of the mismanaged agency coupled with the massive spike in…

The Food and Drug Administration has changed the pregnancy category for Diflucan (fluconazole) after a Danish study linked use of the drug during pregnancy to fetal risk. The study, which examined more than 1.4 million pregnancies over 16 years, found that low oral doses in the first trimester could cause birth defects, while high oral…

Last year, we wrote about a lawsuit brought against Pentax Medical Company and Advocate Luther General Hospital in Chicago. The suit was filed by the adult children of Renate Winkler, who died after contracting the healthcare-associated infection known as CRE after a routine endoscopy was performed with improperly sterilized equipment. The wrongful death lawsuit was,…