Hawkins v. Pathology Associates

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Georgia and South Carolina wrongful death actions involve different injuries and therefore are separate claims with no right of setoff
• holding that Georgia and South Carolina wrongful death actions involve different injuries and therefore are separate claims with no right of setoff
• holding—in a South Carolina wrongful death claim—the trial court should not have set off the plaintiff's recovery from a Georgia wrongful death claim because \the damages recoverable in each claim were not the same\
• allowing admission of letters, an anniversary card, and video to show close familial bond between decedent, her husband, and her children in malpractice action
• holding jury's verdict of $3,500,000 in a survival action to be reasonably reflective of the pain, physical and mental suffering, and lack of quality of life a patient endured during her seven-month fight with cancer following a misdiagnosed Pap smear
• stating allowing this credit—or setoff—ensures \there can only be one satisfaction for an injury or wrong\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).