Despite offers of help from plaintiffs’ lawyers, a south Georgia couple has decided not to ask the state Supreme Court to review a recent lower court ruling that granted immunity from a wrongful death suit to a doctor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

The plaintiffs’ bar and defense lawyers had noticed the July 8 decision by a panel of the Court of Appeals of Georgia because it said the doctor was shielded by governmental immunity, in part because the patient was covered by Medicaid.

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