A showdown four years in the making-the battle over the constitutionality of the state’s caps on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases-finally played out before the seven justices of the state Supreme Court on Tuesday morning.
Interested observers, including Gov. Sonny Perdue’s executive counsel and representatives from the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the Medical Association of Georgia, packed the courtroom, perhaps hoping to catch some hint of which way the justices were leaning. The caps, which generally limit non-economic damages to $350,000 in a case against a single medical malpractice defendant, are one of the most controversial aspects of the 2005 tort reform legislation, also known as Senate Bill 3.
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