SIMMONS v. TUOMEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

No. 2788.

330 S.C. 115 (1998)

498 S.E.2d 408

Alethia SIMMONS, in her fiduciary capacity as Personal Representative of the Estate of P.J. McBride, Deceased, Appellant, v. TUOMEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Einar Anderson, M.D., and Sandy T. Cooper, M.D., Defendants, Of which Tuomey Regional Medical Center is, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided February 2, 1998.

Rehearing Denied March 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Harold W. Jacobs, Jennifer J. Aldrich and Elizabeth Ann Felder, all of Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard, Columbia, for respondents.


HOWELL, Chief Judge:

Alethia Simmons, as personal representative for her father, P.J. McBride, filed a medical malpractice action against Tuomey Regional Medical Center and the doctors who treated McBride. Simmons alleged that McBride died as a result of the negligent diagnosis and treatment he received at the Tuomey emergency room. The trial court granted Tuomey's motion for summary judgment. We reverse and remand.

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