Opponents of a bill to scrap the state’s medical malpractice tort system and replace it with a worker’s compensation-like board have found their own Emory law professor to argue their side. In an earlier committee meeting, an Emory prof testified in favor of Senate Bill 141, called the Patient Injury Act.
On Wednesday, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association presented professor Frank Vandall, who teaches classes on torts and products liability, to a subpanel of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee that is vetting the legislation.
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