The Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out a $3.7 million verdict awarded to a woman who was molested while she was under anesthesia at a dental office, ruling the practice had no reason to suspect the nurse anesthetist now serving a life sentence would assault several female patients.
The unanimous decision said the Fulton County trial judge should have granted dental practice Goldstein Garber & Salama’s motion for directed verdict at the trial’s end, and overturned a 4-3 decision by the Court of Appeals that upheld the verdict in 2015.
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