Browning Ex Rel. Estate of Browning v. Hartvigsen

Harwell, Justice:

The question presented is whether the trial judge erred in holding that certain provisions of the South Carolina Tort Claims Act (the Act), which commenced providing qualified and limited liability to government employed physicians on January 1, 1989, do not apply in any respect to this action. We affirm.

I. FACTS

Respondent alleges that appellants Erik Hartvigsen and Charles R. Vernon, both government employed physicians, harmed Minnie Ruth Browning when they attempted to insert a Shaldon catheter into Mrs. Browning’s right sub-clavian vein in her neck. She suffered a stroke…