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  • Cooksey v. Landry

    Publication Date: 2014-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph P. Powell Jr. Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Henry and Wendy G. Huray Henry Spiegel Milling LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S14A0926

    Although a medical malpractice action arising out of the plaintiffs' son's suicide may be authorized under Georgia law and application of the protections afforded psychiatrist-patient communications

  • Odion v. Avesis Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-06-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
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    Case Number: A14A0264

    Although the trial court was authorized to dismiss certain claims pursuant to an arbitration clause in the parties' contractual agreement, it erred in doing so with prej

  • Toombs v. Acute Care Consultants Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leon Larke and William McCracken, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Brewton Tucker Long PC, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A2316

    The trial court abused its discretion in disqualifying the plaintiff's e

  • Abdel-Samed v. Dailey

    Publication Date: 2014-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Carlock and Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . W. Carl Reynolds and Bradley J. Survant Reynolds, Horne & Survant, Macon, for appellees.
    Case Number: S13G0657

    Although the Court of Appeals erred in finding a question of fact as to the applicability of O.C.G.A. § 51-1-29.5 subsection c because the care the defendants provided clearly constituted emergency

  • City of Atlanta v. Mitcham

    Publication Date: 2013-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jin Kim and Laura Burton City of Atlanta, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Shaun Cade McAleer Law Firm PC, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0912

    Sovereign immunity and official immunity did not apply to the plaintiff's claim that he was injured as a result of the defendants' failure to provide the medical care he needed while he was in their

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  • Spectera Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2013-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Bowers and Malissa A. Kaufold-Wiggins Balch & Bingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter Elliott Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding PC, Valdosta, for appellees. Other party representation: Aubrey T. Villines Jr. and Jeffrey R. Filipovits Filipovits Law Firm PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A12A0773

    The Court of Appeals erred in defining the phrases "any class of providers" and "classes of eye care providers" too broadly, inasmuch as it relied on the general dictionary definition of the word "

  • Quinney v. Phoebe Putney Mem'l Hosp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Adams Adams & Adams LLP, Fort Valley, Virgil Adams Adams, Jordan & Treadwell, and William Heard Adams & Jordan PC, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jeffrey Braintwain, Michael Frankson Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, Joseph Durham Lee Durham LLC, and Donald Lee Langley & Lee, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A1616

    The trial court properly found that the services the defendants rendered constituted "emergency medical care" as defined in O.C.G.A. § 51-1-29.5 subsection a 5, but erred in finding that the plainti

  • MCG Health Inc. v. Kight

    Publication Date: 2013-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hudson Hull Barrett PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sam Nicholson and Harry Revell Nicholson Revell LLP, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1149

    The absence of a debt owed to the hospital under a contract with the patient's insurer could not be construed as a waiver or preclusion of the hospital's lien r

  • Johnson v. Omondi

    Publication Date: 2013-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roderick E. Edmond, Keith L. Lindsay Edmond & Lindsay LLP, Sidney L. Moore III, and James D. Summerville Summerville Moore PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jeffrey D. Braintwain, Michael G. Frankson, and Randolph P. Powell Jr. Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: Hunter S. Allen Jr., Simuel F. Doster Jr. Allen, McCain & O'Mahony PC, Henry D. Green Jr. Green & Sapp LLP, Theodore B. Eichelberger, Bernard Taylor, Joshua L. Becker Alston & Bird LLP, Paul E. Weathington, Paul I. Hotchkiss Weathington Smith PC, Gretchen H. Wagner, Derrick L. Bingham, and David V. Hayes Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S13G0553

    The def emergency room physician was not entitled to summary judgment in the plaintiff's medical malpractice case, as a reasonable jury could find by clear and convincing evidence that the de

  • Spectera Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2013-11-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Bowers, Malissa A. Kaufold-Wiggins Balch & Bingham LLP, Atlanta, Cavender C. Kimble Balch & Bingham LLP, Birmingham, Ala., Wade P. K. Carr, Bruce E. Baty Dentons US LLP, Kansas City, Mo., and Eric J. Andalman Dentons US LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter G. Elliott II Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding PC, Valdosta, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: Aubrey T. Villines Jr. and Jeffrey R. Filipovits Filipovits Law Firm PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12G1935

    The Court of Appeals erred in defining the phrases "any class of providers" and "classes of eye care providers" too broadly, inasmuch as it relied on the general dictionary definition of the word "