Don’t expect the Legislature to try to respond this year to the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision to throw out caps on pain and suffering damages in medical-malpractice cases.
Undoing the court’s unanimous ruling probably would require the General Assembly to amend the state Constitution, according to three Republican state senators and two litigators in private practice. That’s because the court used broad language in saying that caps violated the state Constitution’s right to trial by jury.
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