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  • Sangster v. McGillvary et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Health Care Law | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robbin Shipp, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Eldridge Suggs, (The Suggs Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Sparwath, Kyle Sparwath, (Bendin, Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0987

    Further Review Necessary to Determine Whether State of Repose Applicable to Medical Malpractice Cases Was Tolled by Statewide Judicial Emergency Order

  • Othman v. Navicent Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-03
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Employment Compliance | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A0868

    Private Hospital's Internal Policies Did Not Create Duty Upon Which Tort Action Could Independently Lie

  • Emory University d/b/a Emory University Hospital Smyrna et al. v. Kennestone Hospital, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Threlkeld, Elliott Coward, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Armando Basarrate, David Darden, Grace Blood, (Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs), Atlanta, David Conley, Robert Ingram, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, Amy Weil, (The Weil Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Christopher Carr, Margaret Eckrote, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Stacey Hillock, Daniel Walsh, Dale Cecka, (Department Of Community Health), Atlanta, Cathelynn Tio, (U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A0111

    On remand from the Georgia Supreme Court, the court vacated its prior opinion and ruled that a hospital must obtain a certificate of need ("CON") to revert to a short-stay acute care facility

  • Joseph Poppell et al. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Durham, Robert Brian Tanner, (Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson LLC), Savannah, John E. Floyd, Jane D. Vincent, Manoj Sam Varghese, Jeffrey Weihao Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Ronald Elridge Harrison, II, (The Harrison Firm), Brunswick, Christopher William Madel, (Madel PA), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas S. Salter, John J. Haggerty, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Warrington, Stephen Derek Bauer, Christopher A. Wiech, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan. Randall A. Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Harold David Melton, William Alexander Smith, Anaid C. Reyes Kipp, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Amber M. Charles, (Covington and Burling, LLP), Washington, for appellee; Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24A0687

    Court affirms jury verdict in favor of drug distributors in an opioid-related negligence lawsuit, and dismisses as moot the distributors' challenge to the constitutionality of a statute

  • Estate of Tomlinson et al. v. Houston Healthcare

    Publication Date: 2024-09-16
    Practice Area: Health Care Law | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A0704

    Court of partially reverses and partially affirms dismissal of an Estate's claims under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and other causes of action

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  • Holt et al. v. Glenwood Operating Company, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Parker, (The Parker Firm, LLC.), Alpharetta, Irwin Ellerin, (Ellerin Law Firm), Atlanta, Stephen McElwee, (Wells & McElwee), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig Brookes, Brian Mathis, (Huff Powell Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, Karen Smiley, (Hanks Brookes LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1435

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of a nursing facility on appellants' claims for ordinary negligence and professional negligence

  • Vantage Cancer Centers of Georgia, LLC et al. v. Georgia Department of Community Health et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-20
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, William Joseph Repko, III, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Charles L. Gregory, John Warner Ray, (Ray & Gregory, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret Kemmerly Eckrote, Daniel Stephen Walsh, Christopher M. Carr, Charles K. Thimmesch, Jeffrey William Stump, Andrew Bain McClintock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Michael Rozier, Dorothy Hubbard Cornwell, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr., Allen Andre Hendrick, Talis Colgan Trevino, Laurie Wells Trompeter, (Holland & Knight LLP), Nashville, for appellee; Armando Luis Basarrate, II, David Boone Darden, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs, LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S23G0405

    Court clarifies standard of review that Community Health Commissions must apply in evaluating hearing officer's factual findings in an application for a health care Certificate of Need

  • Kennestone Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Wellstar Windy Hill Hospital v. Emory University d/b/a Emory University Hospital Smyrna, et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-29
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Boone Darden, Armando Luis Basarrate, II, Grace Park Blood, (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs, LLP), Atlanta, Robert D. Ingram, David Patrick Conley, (Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Charles Threlkeld, Elliott Leigh Coward, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, Stacey Ann Hillock, (Georgia Department of Community Health), Atlanta, Margaret Kemmerly Eckrote, Jeffrey William Stump, Christopher M. Carr, Charles K. Thimmesch, Cathelynn Tio, Stephen John Petrany, James Edward Barrett, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G1282

    Court clarifies that a hospital certificate of need ("CON") is a private property right, vacates appellate court opinion to the contrary, and remands for further analysis

  • Carole Maso et al. v. Brian Zeh et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-11
    Practice Area: Health Care Law | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Brian Terry, Jane D. Vincent, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Bentley Cash, David Najeeb Krugler, Wendy Goodwin Huray, Laura Lynne Voght, (Cash, Krugler & Fredericks, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randolph Page Powell, Jr., Alexander Collins Vey, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, Laura M. Shamp, Joshua Forrest Silk, (Shamp Silk), Atlanta, Rosser Adams Malone, (Malone Law Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23C0765

    Physician Assistant Act Does Not Create Vicarious Liability for Supervising Physicians For Medical Acts of Their Physician Assistants

  • Morgan County Hospital Authority v. City of Madison

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Government | Health Care Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk Fjelstul, Kathryn Zickert, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Carter, (James E. Carter Law Firm, LLC), Athens, Frank Jenkins, (Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C.), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0795

    Proposed Drug Treatment Facility Would Be Continuation of Long-Time Hospital Use Already Occurring in City Location