Jones v. Owings

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• declining to adopt the \loss of chance\ doctrine in South Carolina
• \[l]egal responsibility in this approach is in reality assigned based on the mere possibility that a tortfeasor's negligence was a cause of the ultimate harm\
• “[l]egal responsibility in this approach is in reality assigned based on the mere possibility that a tortfeasor’s negligence was a cause of the ultimate harm”
• the “proportional approach” is also known as the “pure” standard
• “[W]e decline to adopt the doctrine and maintain our traditional approach.”
• declining to adopt the loss of chance doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).