The Georgia Court of Appeals has upheld a trial judge’s ruling dismissing claims against a medical equipment company after an employee accidentally shot a lab technician during a service call.
The Oct. 26 opinion said that Georgia’s “Business Security and Employee Privacy Act”—a 2008 law critics dubbed the “Bring Your Gun to Work Act”—shields employers from liability for gun-related incidents such as the incident at an Albany medical lab, which left a man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
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