$3 Million Awarded in South Carolina Medical Malpractice

An Horry County, South Carolina jury awarded $3 million to a man in the death of his wife caused when she went into septic shock and died about 48 hours after being discharged from the Grand Strand Regional Medical Center emergency room. The lawsuit claimed that the hospital failed to run all the necessary tests and did not take the patient’s temperature after an initial check when she arrived in January 2002.