About Johnny Felder
South Carolina Attorney Johnny Felder received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Wofford College in 1990. He went on to get his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1994. Johnny currently specializes in medical malpractice, nursing home and personal injury cases involving catastrophic injury. He has procured many successful trial verdicts, both jury and non-jury.
Relatively recently, Johnny and his law partner Chad McGowan procured the largest personal injury verdict in the history of Aiken County. Over the years, while predominantly handling personal injury matters, Johnny also handled various types of business and class action cases. For example, he represented a series of automobile dealers in litigation involving RICO and breach of trust contract claims against multiple Honda entities. He also served as class counsel in antitrust litigation against Hillenbrand Industries, resulting in one of the largest private antitrust settlements in the history of the United States.
Johnny was an attorney who worked for the State of South Carolina in tobacco litigation. He also served on the Steering Committee in the Graniteville train disaster litigation and was a member of the Economic Loss Steering Committee in the ReNu recall litigation. Johnny is a current member of the Board of Governors for the South Carolina Association for Justice. He is a past president and board member of the Palmetto Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Seletha Gartrell, 54, of Aiken, arrived at Aiken Regional Medical Centers on December 6, 2012 with severe sepsis and was not given the antibiotics her doctors ordered for roughly 14 hours; she went into septic shock, suffered a cardiac arrest, and lost both legs above the knee, her left arm below the elbow, and fingers on her right hand. In March 2017 an Aiken County jury found the hospital negligent and awarded her $13.75 million, made up of $10 million in economic damages and $3.75 million in non-economic damages. The hospital publicly disagreed with the verdict, and no appeal or later reduction appears in any public record we could find.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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