About S. Randall Hood
South Carolina injury attorney S. Randall Hood is a founding partner at McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC. Randy has dedicated his legal career to helping those who have suffered serious injuries or lost loved ones due to negligent conduct. Randy is the former President of the South Carolina Association for Justice. He has been certified by the American Board of Professional Liability as a specialist in Medical Malpractice Law which is recognized by the South Carolina Bar. Randy has also been awarded the distinction of being a "Super Lawyer" 10 times in the last decade. He has over 25 years of experience helping injured people fight back against corporations, hospitals and wrong-doers.
In 2018, Randy was invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an organization of trial attorneys dedicated to protecting the civil justice system. He is also a member of the American Association of Justice, Melvin Belli Society and National Trial Lawyers Association. In 2021, Randy was part of the legal team which reached a landmark settlement of $88 million for the Charleston Nine. This settlement is believed to be the largest civil rights settlement for individual cases in US History.
Randy was born in Macon, Georgia and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina when he was 12 years old. He graduated college in 1985 and worked in retail management for four years before going to the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1989, graduating in May 1992. He began practicing in the area of personal injury with a law firm that would become known as McMehan, Weidner, Hood & Jackson, staying with that firm until 1997, when he began practicing law with James C. Anders, P.A. and Associates until 2003. At that time, Randy Hood and Chad McGowan formed the firm that would come to be known as McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC.
Proven verdicts and settlements at McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC
These results are credited to McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A South Carolina family reached a confidential $40.35 million settlement, structured under a high-low agreement, after radiologists reading a newborn's early chest X-rays missed a ribcage deformity that turned out to be a sign of neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that grew into the child's spinal canal and caused permanent paralysis before it was caught.
A Spartanburg County jury awarded Dara Robinson $16 million against Spartanburg & Pelham OBGYN and three of its physicians after they delayed a cesarean delivery for roughly 30 hours despite fetal monitoring showing signs of distress, and her son died shortly after birth.
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.
Vernon Sulton, paralyzed by gunshot wounds he suffered as a bystander to an armed robbery, was admitted to HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Columbia with a stage two pressure ulcer on his sacrum; in the 11 days he stayed there it deepened to stage four, requiring a colostomy and skin-graft surgery. A Richland County jury found the hospital and six of its nurses negligent, awarding $306,693.25 to his estate, $4 million to his wife for loss of consortium, and $8 million in punitive damages against HealthSouth. On November 21, 2012 the South Carolina Supreme Court reversed the entire verdict and ordered a new trial, holding that the trial judge had wrongly instructed the jury that the hospital owed a heightened duty of care. What happened after the remand is not 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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