As court watchers await rulings by the Georgia Supreme Court on key challenges to aspects of Georgia tort law, a federal appeals court has made quick work of a challenge to a 1987 Georgia statute of limitations that makes it more difficult for plaintiffs to bring certain medical malpractice cases.
Georgia law generally allows the statute of limitations to be tolled for minors or those who are incapacitated due to mental disability-except in most med-mal cases.
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