RANUCCI v. CRAIN

No. 27422.

409 S.C. 493 (2014)

763 S.E.2d 189

Shannon RANUCCI, Petitioner, v. Corey K. CRAIN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided July 23, 2014.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daryl G. Hawkins , of Law Office of Daryl G. Hawkins, L.L.C., of Columbia; John S. Nichols and Blake Alexander Hewitt , both of Bluestein Nichols Thompson & Delgado, L.L.C., of Columbia; Eric Christopher Davis , of Eric C. Davis, P.A., of West Columbia, for Petitioner.

Dennis Gary Lovell, Jr. , Lee Cannon Weatherly and Michael Baxter McCall , all of Carlock Copeland & Stair, L.L.P., of Charleston, for Respondent.

Andrew A. Mathias , of Nexsen Pruet, L.L.C., of Greenville, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Hospital Association.


BEATTY, Justice.

Shannon Ranucci appealed the circuit court's order dismissing her medical malpractice case for failure to contemporaneously file an expert witness affidavit with her Notice of Intent to File Suit ("NOI") pursuant to section 15-79-125 of the South Carolina Code.1 Ranucci asserted the circuit court erred in finding the affidavit of her medical expert was not timely filed because section 15-79-125 incorporates section 15...

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