DUNBAR v. CARLSON

No. 3194.

341 S.C. 261 (2000)

533 S.E.2d 913

Frances DUNBAR, Appellant/Respondent, v. Paul H. CARLSON, D.M.D., Respondent/Appellant.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided June 19, 2000.

Rehearing Denied September 2, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Hammer, Howard Hammer, G. Randall McKay and Arthur A. Aiken, all of Hammer, Hammer, Carrigg & Potterfield, of Columbia, for Appellant/Respondent.

Daniel R. Settana, Jr., and John R. Delmore, both of McKay & McKay; and Ruskin C. Foster, of McCutchen, Blanton, Rhodes & Johnson, all of Columbia, for Respondent/Appellant.


HEARN, Chief Judge:

This is a cross-appeal in a dental malpractice action. We affirm the trial judge's denial of Dr. Paul Carlson's motion to amend his answer to assert the statute of repose, and reverse his grant of Carlson's motion to amend to assert the statute of limitations and his grant of a directed verdict on that basis.

FACTUAL/PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Frances Dunbar began seeing Carlson in 1983...

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