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$3M Georgia Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Bowel Perforation During Laparoscopic Surgery

April 18, 2021

On March 23, 2021, a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death jury awarded $3 million for the death of a woman who died on May 7, 2016 from peritonitis resulting from a small intestine perforation caused during laparoscopic abdominal surgery. The Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit [...]

More Than 40 Migrant Women Involved In Georgia Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Forced Medical Procedures At Immigration Detention Center

January 31, 2021

On December 21, 2020, female immigrants filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia for alleged forced medical procedures that they were required to undergo at a Georgia immigration detention center. The eight named plaintiffs, some of whom rem[...]

Georgia Trial Court Orders New Trial In Medical Malpractice Case For Inconsistent Verdict

January 19, 2021

In a Georgia medical malpractice case that was remanded to the trial court because the jury awarded the plaintiff damages for her medical expenses but failed to award any amount for her pain and suffering, the trial court ordered a new trial, stating “the verdict rendered by the jury in this m[...]

Federal Appellate Court Applies Georgia’s Learned Intermediary Doctrine To Deny Stroke Victim’s Recovery

January 13, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its published opinion dated December 22, 2020, “This tragic case began when Karen Hubbard suffered a catastrophic stroke. The stroke left her paralyzed and her cognitive functions severe[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Holds Gross Negligence Standard Applies To Shoulder Dystocia Injury During Delivery

November 15, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated October 23, 2020 in a Georgia medical malpractice birth injury case where the baby suffered injuries due to shoulder dystocia that occurred during labor and delivery: “Because the injury took plac[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Revives Some Claims Against Sperm Bank

October 31, 2020

The Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”), in its decision filed on September 28, 2020, revived some claims against a sperm bank, stating: “Wendy and Janet Norman allege that Xytex Corporation, a sperm bank, sold them human sperm under false pretenses about the charact[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Affirms $46M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mother’s Catastrophic Brain Injury Suffered Within Days After Giving Birth

October 29, 2020

The Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”), in its decision filed on September 28, 2020, upheld an almost $46 million Georgia medical malpractice verdict rendered after a two-week trial in 2017 involving the August 2009 birth of the plaintiffs’ daughter, after which the[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms $3.6M Verdict Against Bard In G2 IVC Filter Case

October 25, 2020

In its opinion filed on August 13, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) affirmed a federal jury’s verdict against C. R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. (collectively, “Bard”) involving product-liability claim[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Discusses Need For Expert Affidavit In Negligent Credentialing Cases

August 11, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion dated June 29, 2020, “This Court has not addressed whether an expert affidavit regarding negligent credentialing on the part of a hospital is necessary in addition to the expert affidavit filed agains[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case For Failure To Provide Proper Presuit Notice

July 25, 2020

The Georgia Court of Appeals Fifth Division (“Georgia Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated June 11, 2020, affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit, holding “both of Brown’s [plaintiff’s] ante litem notices failed to indicate the[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Assumption Of The Risk

July 18, 2020

The Supreme Court of Georgia held in its decision dated June 1, 2020 that “at least slight evidence was presented at trial” to warrant the trial court in instructing the jury on assumption of risk in a Georgia medical malpractice case. The Underlying Facts On October 2, 2009, Shane Berry[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Remands Medical Malpractice Case To Determine If Verdict Was Void As Inconsistent

May 12, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 30, 2020, “we vacate our original opinion, and applying the abuse-of-discretion standard of review set forth in Evans II, we affirm the trial court’s order to the extent that it denied [...]

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