The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court decision that doctors and businesses had said would have unfairly expanded who can be liable for medical malpractice and other torts.
Monday’s 7-0 decision is a win for an emergency department medical director sued even though he wasn’t at the hospital when the patient whose care was at issue came in for treatment. Those who had fought the lower court ruling had said it could extend beyond the medical context to affect more general questions of liability for supervisors.
