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SMOTHERS v. RICHLAND MEMORIAL HOSP.

No. 2738.

328 S.C. 566 (1997)

493 S.E.2d 107

James Donald SMOTHERS, Jr., Appellant, v. RICHLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, J. Jeffrey Brown, M.D., Louis Viamontes, M.D., McCrea Ewart, M.D., and Joint Underwriting Association (JUA), of whom, Richland Memorial Hospital, J. Jeffrey Brown, M.D., and Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) are, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided October 20, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Edward Bell, III, and Eugene C. Fulton, Jr., both of Bell & Moore, Sumter, for appellant.

William L. Pope and Roy F. Laney, Columbia, for Respondents J. Jeffrey Brown, M.D. and Joint Underwriting Association (JUA); and Charles E. Carpenter Jr., George C. Beighley, William C. McDow, Jr., and Deborah Harrison Sheffield, all of Richardson, Plowden, Carpenter & Robinson, Columbia, for Respondent Richland Memorial Hospital.

STILWELL, Judge:

James Donald Smothers, Jr. appeals the trial court's determination that a prior release of claims precludes the present medical malpractice action. We affirm.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On October 23, 1981, Smothers was involved in an automobile accident which required emergency surgery at Richland Memorial Hospital (Hospital). Doctor J. Jeffrey Brown, accompanied by resident physicians Louis Viamontes and McCrea Ewart, performed the surgery...

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