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SC beating victim files suit against EMS

By Renee Dudley
The Island Packet

BLUFFTON, S.C. — Brian Lanese, the Bluffton resident severely beaten in his backyard a year ago whose case prompted questions about the quality of ambulance service in Beaufort County, has filed a lawsuit against Beaufort County EMS.

Attorneys for Lanese, 34, filed the suit on Oct. 2.

County attorney Ladson Howell said in an e-mail Friday that the county would “not comment on active litigation.”

Full story: Suit alleges that EMS care of Lanese caused him further injuries