Georgia Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 15 of 16

Georgia Appeals Court Holds Atlanta Not Immune From Inmate Medical Malpractice Claim

December 11, 2013

The Court of Appeals of Georgia, Georgia’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed the trial court’s refusal to dismiss a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by an inmate who alleged that he suffered severe and permanent injuries as a result of the Atlanta jail system’s failure to [...]

Georgia Court Of Appeals Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Testimony is Admissible

December 4, 2013

In its decision issued on November 20, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Court of Appeals”), Georgia’s intermediate appellate court, determined that the trial judge improperly excluded the testimony of the plaintiff’s expert in a medical malpractice case. The [...]

Georgia Supreme Court Overturns Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendant

November 18, 2013

In a Georgia medical malpractice case decided on November 14, 2013, the Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held that the trial court was wrong in entering summary judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendant and that the Georgia Court of Appeals was wrong i[...]

Georgia Pharmacy Malpractice Case Filed

October 24, 2013

A federal lawsuit seeking damages in the amount of $750,000 has been filed in Georgia on behalf of a now 9-year-old girl who allegedly suffered injuries as a result of a Georgia pharmacy’s labeling mistake regarding the dosage of the child’s medication, leading to the child being given [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Panel Says Juries May Decide What Is Emergency Medical Care

October 18, 2013

In a written opinion of a panel of the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Appellate Court”) dated October 9, 2013, the Appellate Court held that it may be a question of fact to be determined by the jury whether the medical malpractice claims of the plaintiff arose out of the provision of �[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide

August 5, 2013

In its written opinion dated July 15, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Court of Appeals”) affirmed a Georgia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $400,000 in compensatory damages for a knee infection claim, $500,000 in compensatory damages for a wro[...]

Georgia Supreme Court To Review Emergency Medical Care Gross Negligence Standard

July 2, 2013

In case a before the Supreme Court of Georgia that is scheduled for oral argument today, the parents of a 15-year-old who died as a result of pulmonary embolism despite being seen in a hospital emergency room two weeks earlier brought a medical malpractice claim against the emergency room physicia[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Preeclampsia Case

June 4, 2013

On March 8, 2013, a Richmond County, Georgia Superior Court medical malpractice jury found in favor of the two medical malpractice defendant doctors in a case involving a patient who lost her vision due to preeclampsia. The husband and wife medical malpractice plaintiffs alleged in their medical m[...]

$17.5 Million Atlanta Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Damage After Routine Surgery

April 23, 2013

On March 27, 2013, an Atlanta medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $17.5 million against a local hospital for the brain injury suffered by a patient undergoing routine surgery. The now 25-year-old man was an innocent bystander when he was shot in his face outside of a Walm[...]

Narconon Of Georgia Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit

February 23, 2013

On February 8, 2013, Narconon of Georgia settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed against it almost three years earlier by the family of a former patient who died of a drug overdose while supposedly receiving court-ordered drug treatment that cost the patient’s parents $30,000 for what they w[...]

3 Georgia Medical Malpractice Cases Against 1 Hospital For 3 Babies Who Died During 2 Month Period

December 10, 2012

Three medical malpractice wrongful death cases have been filed against one Georgia hospital for the deaths of three babies during a two-month period this past summer. The medical malpractice cases involve claims that physicians and other health care providers at South Fulton Medical Center fa[...]

Georgia $5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Amputation of Both Legs

October 1, 2012

On September 24, 2012, after more than one week of trial and over two-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $5 million for a woman who had both of her legs amputated below the knees as a result of what the jury found to be medica[...]

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