Georgia Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 2 of 16

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

November 10, 2025

Georgia Moton sued registered nurses Melanie Kinder, Rose White, and Betty Stokes, along with their employer Emory Healthcare, Inc.(“Emory”), alleging that the defendants inappropriately administered Dilantin through an intravenous (“IV”) line in Moton’s left hand instead of through a larg[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

November 9, 2025

Robert J. Smith and Henry J. Smith, as surviving sons of Barbara Smith and personal representatives of her estate, filed a Georgia medical malpractice action against Phillipe Gadegbeku, M.D., Nabil Muhanna, M.D., and their respective employers. The Plaintiffs alleged the Defendants failed to provide[...]

$4M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed For Death Of 15-Month-Old Child Who Ingested A Button Battery

November 8, 2025

On November 19, 2014, 15-month-old Alex Clinkscales died after a button battery eroded through his esophagus. His parents, individually and as the administrators of his estate, filed their Georgia medical malpractice action against the boy’s pediatrician, Dr. Susan McWhirter, and her pediatric pra[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality Of Treating Mentally Incompetent Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs Differently Than Mentally Incompetent Plaintiffs In Other Kinds Of Actions

October 20, 2025

Andreana Williams, as conservator for her mother Michelle Hewett, filed a medical malpractice action against Regency Hospital Company, LLC, Regency Hospital Company of Macon, LLC (“Regency”), and Regency’s employee Jacquita Baldwin, APRN. The defendants moved to dismiss based on the expira[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Dodges Deciding Constitutionality Of Caps On Wrongful Death Damages

August 22, 2025

After Allen Turner died from surgical complications, his daughter, Norkesia Turner (“Turner”), sued Drs. William Thompson and Heather Nolan, as well as their employer, the Medical Center of Central Georgia, Inc.(collectively, “MCCG”), for medical malpractice and wrongful death. The action pr[...]

Georgia Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Staffing Shortage Led To Patient’s Suicide

August 21, 2025

The family of a 35-year-old man who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and called 911 from a hotel on January 12, 2024, stating that he was having a nervous breakdown and needed help, has filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where he was brought by ambulance [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms $10.5 Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Twins During Birth

August 16, 2025

In April 2019, Dinesha Robinson was nearly five months’ pregnant with twins. Her pregnancy was high-risk, due to a prior miscarriage and preeclampsia, and she had been treated twice in the previous three weeks for a urinary tract infection (“UTI”) by United Obstetrics and Gynecology (“UOG”[...]

$2.45M Verdict Against Pathologist Who Posted Videos Of Decapitated Baby

August 12, 2025

On June 18, 2025, a Georgia jury awarded a couple whose baby was decapitated during childbirth $2.45 million against the pathologist they had hired to perform an autopsy on the baby’s body, who had posted on Instagram several graphic videos of the baby’s body. The couple had hired pathol[...]

$6.5M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed

August 11, 2025

In 2018, Dr. Bradford Wall, a partner at Georgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P. C. (“GBJ”), performed a successful total knee replacement on Margaret Keel. During her overnight stay at GBJ, she was prescribed narcotic pain medications for herrecovery. The narcotics can slow a patient’s breathin[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Applies Safe Harbor Provision In Allowing Renewed Medical Malpractice Complaint

July 23, 2025

In Georgia, a complaint seeking damages for professional malpractice under OCGA§ 9-11-9.1(a) requires the plaintiff “to file with the complaint an affidavit of an expert competent to testify, which affidavit shall set forth specifically at least one negligent actor omission claimed to exist and t[...]

$70M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman Who Had Both Legs Amputated Due To Medical Negligence

July 10, 2025

A Georgia medical malpractice jury recently returned a verdict in the amount of $70 million against three physicians that the young female plaintiff alleged were negligent in their treatment of her sepsis and shock, leading to the amputation of both of her legs above the knees. The then 28-year-old [...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For 2-Year-Old’s Death Due To Delayed Treatment Of Allergic Reaction To Fire Ant Bites

May 27, 2025

On April 4, 2025, a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was filed by the estate of a two-year-old, and her grieving parents, alleging that medical malpractice that occurred in an emergency department of a local hospital led to the unnecessary death of the young child. The lawsuit alle[...]

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