Medical malpractice defense attorneys Paul Weathington and David Hanson of The Weathington Firm secured a defense verdict for a doctor last week in a long-running case where they were opposite two well-known plaintiffs lawyers, lead counsel Lloyd Bell of the Bell Law Firm and appellate specialist Darren Summerville of the Summerville Firm.

The case was tried in 2019 to a $4.7 million verdict. But Fulton County State Court Judge Jane Morrison removed an emergency room doctor from the case just before it went to the jury, leaving him with zero liability. Weathington was the lawyer who persuaded the judge to order the directed verdict in favor of his client, Dr. Glenn Bloom of Cherokee Emergency Physicians, arguing that the plaintiff’s expert’s qualifications didn’t match the requirements of the case.