On February 5, 2014, D. Gary Lovell, Jr. and Lee Weatherly obtained a defense verdict for a surgeon and his practice group, in a wrongful death medical malpractice case filed in Charleston County, South Carolina. In the two-week trial, the Plaintiff’s estate claimed that the doctor failed to properly respond to post-operative complications, leading to their father’s death. Nevertheless, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the physician.