When introducing appellate lawyer Michael Terry of Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore at this year’s “big cases” continuing legal education event, Adam Malone of Malone Law said this: “He’s the guy everybody turns to.”
Malone turned to Terry to fight the Georgia General Assembly’s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages for medical malpractice. They won a constitutional challenge to that law in 2010 with an opinion written by Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carol Hunstein. In addition to boosting future medical malpractice cases, that appeal restored a $1.25 million verdict—including $900,000 in noneconomic damages—for Betty Nestlehutt, whose face had been permanently disfigured by a plastic surgeon.
