Legal Opinion
Shaw v. Psychemedics Corporation
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided March 20, 2019No. Appellate Case 2017-002538; Opinion 27869PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHIEF JUSTICE BEATTY :
*282 **196 We certified the following question from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina:
Under South Carolina law, does a drug testing laboratory that has a contract with an employer to conduct and evaluate drug tests owe a duty of care to the employees who are subject to the testing so as to give rise to a cause of action for negligence for failure to properly and accurately perform the test and report the results?
For reasons that will be discussed, we answer this question in the affirmative.
I. FACTS
Plaintiff is a former employee of BMW at its…
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