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SCOTT EX REL. SCOTT v. PORTER

No. 3149.

340 S.C. 158 (2000)

530 S.E.2d 389

Lance SCOTT, deceased by and through his Personal Representative, Lynn SCOTT, Respondent, v. Jan PORTER, M.D., Richard Bannon, M.D. and Foothills Family Medicine Center, P.A., of whom Jan Porter, M.D. and Foothills Family Medicine Center, P.A. are, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided April 10, 2000.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold W. Jacobs, of Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard, of Columbia; Ashby W. Davis and Steven A. Snyder, both of Donnan, Morton, Davis & Snyder, of Greenville, for appellants.

Michael E. Spears, of Spears & Howell; Gerald G. Wilson; and Rodman C. Tullis, all of Spartanburg, for respondent.

HEARN, Chief Judge:

Jan Porter, M.D. (Porter) and Foothills Family Medicine Center, P.A. appeal from a jury verdict finding Porter negligent in the death of her patient, 19-month old Lance Scott. The jury awarded Lynn Scott, Lance's mother and Personal Representative, six hundred thousand dollars in actual damages and 1.5 million dollars in punitive damages in the survival action, and 1.5 million dollars in actual damages and two million in punitive damages in the...

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