• Harvard et al. v. John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-22
    Practice Area: Health Care Law | Medical Malpractice | Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, Christopher Rodd, (The Rodd Firm LLC), Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Watt, Alphonso Howell, Gregory Talley, (Coleman Talley LLP), Valdosta, Carlton Joyce, Lucas Bradley, Gregroy Finch, (Bouhan Falligant LLP), Savannah, for appellee; James Thagard, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Scott & Smith), Valdosta, Paul Weathington, (Weathington Smith), Atlanta, Lindsay Forlines, (Forlines Law LLC), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A22A0960

    Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed to Show Wife's Death Was Caused by Delay in Treatment

  • In the Interest of C.C. et al., Children.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Buell Hume, (Hume, Jaacks & Associates, LLC), Cumming, Brittani Chandler, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ross Warren Bergethon, Shalen S. Nelson, Bryan Keith Webb, Emily Allen Harris, Christopher M. Carr, Hannah Basta, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kris-Ann Poe, Hiawassee Rochelle Ann Doyle, Roswell, for appellee; Melissa D. Carter, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, Edward Albert Bedard, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus; Mathew K. Titus, (Titus Law LLC), Alpharetta, Victoria Cuneo Powell, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Kurtis George Anderson, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for Other Party.

    Case Number: S22A0584

    Juvenile Court Applied Wrong Standard in Determining Parents' Religious Objection to Vaccinating Children Was Insincere

  • Howell et al. v. Cochran

    Publication Date: 2022-09-12
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Weathington, David Hanson, Elizabeth Linginfelter, (The Weathington Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Brant, (Colom and Brant), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0913

    Court affirms denial of defendants' motion for summary judgment in a medical malpractice case, finding that testimony from plaintiff's expert was properly admitted

  • West et al. v. Bowser et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-09
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance McCoy, (The McCoy Law Firm), Cartersville, Robert Walker, (Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C.), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Luskin, Robert Noble, (Goodman, McGuffey, Lindsey & Johnson LLP), Atlanta, David Hayes, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Kathleen Simcoe, (Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0055

    Court affirms order compelling arbitration in a wrongful death matter and determines that the underlying arbitration agreement is enforceable.

  • Augustin et al. v. Walker Lake Emergency Group, PC

    Publication Date: 2022-08-10
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Maguire, Robert Kozloski, (Parks, Chesin & Walbert, P.C.), Atlanta,or appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Schwartz, (Jackson Lewis P.C.), Atlanta, Thomas Tate, (Andersen, Tate & Carr, P.C.), Duluth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0833

    Court affirms summary judgment for health care company and rejects terminated physicians' breach of contract argument because their agreements authorized termination

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  • In the Matter of Daniel Kirkland McCall.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Constance Mcmanus, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22Y0729

    Attorney Requesting Voluntary Discipline Failed to Show Why Suspension Should be Imposed Nunc Pro Tunc

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

    Publication Date: 2022-07-28
    Practice Area: Regulation
    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 Kopache, (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, (Department of Community Health), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, Dale Cecka, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, Cathelynn Tio, (Office of the Attorney General, Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A22A0111

    Court finds that a health care facility required a new Certificate of Need to convert from a long-term to short-term acute care facility

  • Mildred Toomer, in her Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Milton McBride v. Metro Ambulance Services, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Cuffie, Magua Benson, (Cuffie & Associates, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Wolcott, Arthur Park, Sarah MaCkimm, Caitlin Amick, (Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0160

    Court reverses dismissal of wrongful death cause of action that was added to a personal injury complaint after expiration of the statute of limitations

  • Valade v. Meriwether & Tharp, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-25
    Practice Area: Privacy
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Neuberger, (Neuberger Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christine Mast, Zachary Lewis, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Brynda Insley, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Aaron Strimban, Robert Tidwell, (Tidwell & Strimban, LLC), Woodstock, John Burns, (Burns Law Group, PC), Canton, for other party.

    Case Number: A22A0330

    Court reverses summary judgment that had been against plaintiff's invasion of privacy claim, finding that the claim was not barred by the abusive litigation statute

  • Joyner et al. v. Leapheart et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Hugh Potts, Eugene D. Butt, (James Hugh Potts II, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Irving William Drought, III, Andrew McLean Wilkes, (Oliver Maner, LLP), Savannah, Christopher Weis Phillips, (Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC), Savannah, for appellee; Jason Lance Crawford, (Crawford & Brown Law Firm LLP), Columbus, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S21G0764

    Court reverses dismissal of a wrongful death medical malpractice claim that had been erroneously dismissed under an old version of the OCGA § 9-11-41(a) two-claim rule