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$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[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Holds Supervising Surgeon Can Be Held Liable For Medical Student’s Negligence Under General Agency Principles

May 15, 2025

Plaintiff alleged that the negligence of a medical student, who assisted in Plaintiff’s surgery by manipulating a sponge stick under the supervision of the defendant physicians, resulted in the defendant physicians improperly cutting her rectal wall. According to Plaintiff, that injury later devel[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Rules Hospital Entitled To COVID-19 Immunity In Medication Malpractice Case

May 6, 2025

Gregory Turner was admitted to Kennestone Hospital (“Hospital”) where he was diagnosed with COVID-19 on November 7, 2021. As part of his treatment, he was prescribed anticoagulants, including the medication Heparin, on November 15, 2021. The medication was ordered at 7:53 a.m., and an in[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Allows Jury To Hear Evidence That One Medical Malpractice Defendant Had Settled Claims Against Him

September 7, 2024

After suffering complications from bariatric surgery, Philip Altine filed a Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctor who performed the surgery and Eastside Medical Center, LLC (“Eastside”), who employed the nurses who treated Altine post surgery. The defendant doctor settled the cl[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Brain Damage During Cosmetic Surgery

June 10, 2018

The adult son of a 54-year-old woman filed a Georgia medical malpractice claim against a cosmetic surgeon for the brain damage his mother suffered during a cosmetic surgery procedure performed at a Georgia medical spa and cosmetic surgery center. The woman had wanted to look her best for her upcomin[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Birth Injury Medical Malpractce Expert’s Opinion Inadmissble

September 23, 2017

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) ruled in its opinion filed on September 7, 2017 that the trial court did not err in excluding the plaintiff’s medical malpractice expert’s opinion in a birth injury case because the expert’s opinion was unrelia[...]

Georgia Judge Increases $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict To Nearly $4.5M

February 11, 2014

On February 4, 2014, a Georgia judge determined that the plaintiffs’ medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $3 million for a baby’s permanent and severe brain damage suffered as a result of alleged medical malpractice shortly after his birth will be increased to almost $4.5 millio[...]

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[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Kidney Failure

June 19, 2012

On May 18, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Georgia awarded just over $1 million to a man who had filed a medical malpractice lawsuit that claimed that his doctor had failed to order necessary blood tests and urine tests that should have been ordered and would have prevented the patient fro[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Physician Complaints And Disciplinary Actions

October 20, 2011

As of December 30, 2010, there were 30,581 actively licensed physicians in the State of Georgia including 1,781 new licenses issued, which represented an increase of 11.3% from the prior year. As of September 15, 2011, the number of licensed Georgia physicians had risen to 31,193 (Source). The Geor[...]

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