HIGGINS v. MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF S.C.

No. 2662.

326 S.C. 592 (1997)

486 S.E.2d 269

Kathryn K. HIGGINS and Douglas M. Higgins, Appellants, v. MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Fred A. Crawford, Jr., M.D., Bruce W. Usher, M.D., Daniel Alfono, M.D., Brian M. Gordon, M.D., and Peter Rosenthal, M.D., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided May 12, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teresa Zachry Hill, Charleston, for appellants.

Barbara Showers, Charleston, for respondents.


CURETON, Judge:

The Higginses filed this action for medical malpractice. They appeal the trial court's grant of summary judgment to all of the defendant doctors. We affirm as modified.1

I. FACTS

On May 26, 1994, Mrs. Higgins filed a medical malpractice action against the Medical University of South Carolina ("MUSC"), and Drs. Crawford, Usher, Alfono, Gordon, and Rosenthal (the "doctors"). Mr. Higgins pled a loss of consortium...

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