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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 18:45:58+00:00

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(6) an action under Sections 15-51-10 to 15-51-60 for death by wrongful act, the period to begin to run upon the death of the person on account of whose death the action is brought; S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530with Discovery Rule.
In the medical malpractice context, our supreme court applied the reasonable diligence analysis under the general discovery rule set forth in Snell v. Columbia Gun Exchange, 276 S.C. 301, 278 S.E.2d 333 (1981). “ ‘[A]n injured party must act with some promptness where the facts and circumstances of the injury would put a person of common knowledge on notice that some right of his has been invaded or that some claim against another party might exist.’ ” Strong v. Univ. of S.C. Sch. of Med., 316 S.C. 189, 191, 447 S.E.2d 850, 852 (1994) (quoting Snell at 303, 278 S.E.2d at 334) (emphasis added).
A plaintiff must bring a personal injury action within three years after the plaintiff knew or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known that she had a cause of action. S.C.Code Ann. § 15-3-530(5) and -535 (Supp.1999). Moriarty v. Garden Sanctuary Church of God, 534 S.E. 2d 672, 676 (S.C. 2000)“The important date under the discovery rule is the date that a plaintiff discovers the injury, not the date of the discovery of the identity of [the] wrongdoer.” Wiggins, supra. However, under section 15-3-535, “the statute of limitations is triggered not merely by knowledge of an injury but by knowledge of facts, diligently acquired, sufficient to put an injured person on notice of the existence of a cause of action against another.” True v. Monteith, 327 S.C. 116, 118, 489 S.E.2d 615, 617 (1997). No statute of repose. Thorton v. Cessna Aircraft Co., 703 F.Supp.1228, 1233 (D.S.C. 1988) (South Carolina has not enacted any statute of repose comparable to Tennessee’s statute. In addition, it is clear that under South Carolina law, a plaintiff is not foreclosed from bringing a product liability action solely because a specified period has elapsed since the product was first sold into the stream of commerce. See Mickle v. Blackmon, 252 S.C. 202, 166 S.E.2d 173 (1969)).
3 Years Any action for relief on the ground of fraud in cases which prior to the adoption of the Code of Civil Procedure in 1870 were solely cognizable by the court of chancery, the cause of action in the case not considered to have accrued until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the facts constituting the fraud; S.C. Code 15-3-530.
Standard rule applies in S.C. except for medical malpractice cases.
Rule applies unless plaintiff is more than 50% responsible.
Abolished, but restricted by statute as to level of proof and amount recoverable.
For infants (18th birthday), incompetents, and insane persons, SOL runs from termination of disability. Maximum of 5 years, unless infant and then it is a maximum of 1 year from end of disability.
Plaintiff must present clear and convincing evidence of malice or reckless and outrageous indifference to highly unreasonable risk of harm and conscious indifference to health, safety, and welfare of others. Specific exceptions and regulations exist.

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