Legal Opinion
Dunbar v. Carlson
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided June 19, 2000No. 3194PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 or 1984. He was her only dentist until 1994. Dunbar saw Carlson many times during this period, and on one of her visits he advised her to have all of her lower teeth crowned. However, Carlson only…
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