Date: 10-03-2025

Case Style: Jennifer L. Beckett v. United States of America

Case Number: 20-CV-4277

Judge: Joseph Dawson, III

Court: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (Charleston County)

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Defendant's Attorney: United States District Attorney's Office in Charleston

Description: Charleston, South Carolina, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a medical malpractice claim.

Jennifer Beckett-Lynn (“Beckett-Lynn”) and her now deceased husband, Keith Lynn (“Lynn”), brought a civil action pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b)(1), 2671, alleging that substandard medical care provided to Lynn at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina, resulted in the unnecessary amputation of Lynn’s right leg below the knee. The district court granted the United States’s motion for summary judgment. Applying South Carolina law to the Lynns’ claims, the district court found that the Lynns failed to provide expert testimony to counter the applicable standard of care established by the United States’s experts or to show that Lynn’s injuries had been proximately caused by a breach of that standard. Beckett-Lynn appeals the district court’s order and a subsequent order denying her Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion.

Outcome: Motion for summary judgement granted.

Affirmed.

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