Publication Date: 2017-12-05
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
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Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Bethel
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathan Williams (The Williams Litigation Group, P.C.), Brunswick; Darren Penn (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta; Timothy Rigsbee, Michael Terry (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patrick O'Connor, Christopher Ray, Irving Drought (Oliver Maner LLP), Savannah; Andrew Efaw, Thomas Olsen, Stephen Oertle (Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP), Denver, for appellee.
Kristin Hiscutt (Bendin, Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, for amicus curiae.
Case Number: A17A1298
The trial court erred in dismissing plaintiffs' third amended complaint alleging ordinary and medical negligence against the owners, operators, and employees of a psychiatric treatment facility that treated and released a patient who later killed her grandmother and her aunt's boyfriend.