Publication Date: 2013-11-27
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant, Louis B. Park, Matthew L. J. D. Dowell Alston & Bird LLP, Kathleen W. Simcoe, Theodore E. G. Pound Commander Pound Butler LLP, Paul E. Weathington Weathington Smith PC, Atlanta, Matthew S. Coles Coles Barton LLP, Lawrenceville, B. Nicole Smith, and Wiley A. Wasden III Brennan & Wasden LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
for defendant: Amicus Appellant: Joshua B. Belinfante Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC, Donald J. Palmisano Jr. Medical Association of Georgia, and Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta. Andrew S. Johnson, H. Craig Stafford, and Jeffery L. Arnold Arnold & Stafford, Hinesville, for appellees.
Case Number: S13G0577
The Court of Appeals erred in finding that an exception to the requirement of doctor-patient privity in a professional negligence case resulted from the application of Gray v. Vaughn, 217 Ga. App. 8