Georgia Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 12 of 16

Georgia Supreme Court Nixes Claim For Mishandling Of Stillborn’s Remains

March 27, 2017

The Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held in a case decided on March 6, 2017 that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover for negligent mishandling of the remains of her stillborn baby because of Georgia’s physical impact rule limiting liability for emotional distre[...]

Georgia Gynecologist Indicted For Running Pill Mill, Money Laundering

March 25, 2017

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia announced on March 7, 2017 that a 58-year-old Georgia gynecologist has been changed in a 176-count indictment with running a pill mill and with money laundering. If convicted of the criminal charges filed against him, the Georgia [...]

$45.8M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman’s Brain Damage Three Days After Giving Birth

February 25, 2017

At the conclusion of an eight-day Georgia medical malpractice jury trial, and jury deliberations over the course of two days, the Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, for the devastating brain injury suffered by the wife due to a[...]

Georgia Appeals Court Revives Parts Of Plaintiff’s Pro Se Medical Malpractice Complaint

February 17, 2017

In its decision filed on February 13, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Appellate Court”) revived parts of a Georgia medical malpractice complaint that had been dismissed by the trial court because it was not accompanied by an affidavit of a medical expert. The Georgia medical malp[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Discusses Whether ER Physicians Were Independent Contractors

February 6, 2017

In its opinion filed on January 19, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Appellate Court”) analyzed whether two emergency room physicians who had treated the plaintiff were agents or employees of the hospital or were independent contractors for whom the hospital would not be liable [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Overturns Summary Judgment In Favor Of Nursing Home

February 2, 2017

In its decision filed on January 18, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Appellate Court”) held that the trial court had erroneously entered judgment in favor of the defendant nursing home and the defendant nursing home physician in a Georgia nursing home negligence lawsuit that all[...]

Georgia Prison Sued For Inmate’s Failed Suicide Attempt, Medical Negligence

November 26, 2016

Earlier this month two Georgia lawsuits were filed on behalf of a Georgia prison inmate by his mother, alleging that prison correctional staff and prison medical staff were negligent and that their negligence left her son in a near-comatose state after his failed suicide attempt while locked in his [...]

$30.5M Georgia Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 18, 2016

On November 9, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury in a conservative jurisdiction returned its verdict in the amount of $30,545,655 in favor of a now 4-year-old child who suffered a severe, permanent brain injury leading to cerebral palsy as a result of medical negligence during her mother̵[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

September 26, 2016

On September 2, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendants, finding that the Georgia medical malpractice plaintiff had failed to prove that the defendant surgeon and the defendant anesthesiologist had breached the standard of care in treating the plainti[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Jury Clears Defendant Doctors For Hospital Patient’s Death

July 31, 2016

On July 21, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant pulmonologist and the defendant ENT, finding that they had not breached the standard of care in their treatment of a 56-year-old man who they had examined in the hospital only hours before he suffered[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Insurer Agrees To Pay Judgment In Excess Of Policy Limits

July 28, 2016

A Georgia primary care physician and his medical clinic had a total medical malpractice insurance policy limit in the amount of $2 million but their medical malpractice insurance company has agreed to pay in full the $4.9 million medical malpractice judgment against them (which includes $200,000 for[...]

$875K Lasik Malpractice Verdict

May 28, 2016

On April 22, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $875,000 in favor of the plaintiff who alleged that her Lasik surgery was improperly performed, resulting in significant and permanent injury to her eyesight that causes visual problems. The plaintiff, who [...]

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