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  • Coastal Home Care et al. v. Fann-Roberts

    Publication Date: 2023-06-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ernest Burriss, (Burriss Law Group, LLC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph Lorberbaum, (Zipperer & Lorberbaum, P.C.), Savannah, for appellee; Amy Urban, (Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0053

    Court affirms that an injured employee's five-year period for a hearing on her workers' compensation claim was extended by the State's COVID-19 Emergency Order

  • Preferred Women's Healthcare LLC et al. v. Sain et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-29
    Practice Area: Evidence | Health Care Law | Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Huff, Randolph Powell, (Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC), Atlanta, Sarah Akinosho, (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy Barnes, John Bevis, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Matthew Coles, (Coles Barton, LLP), Lawrenceville, Mark Meliski, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0413

    Plaintiff's Expert Was Qualified to Testify as to How Long Patient Might Have Lived If Cancer Had Been Diagnosed and Treated Earlier

  • Raffensperger v. Jackson et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Maximillian James Changus, Margaret Kemmerly Eckrote, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Melissa Angeleah Tracy, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Yasha Heidari, (Heidari Power Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, Renee D. Flaherty, (Institute for Justice), Arlington, Jaimie Cavanaugh, (Institute for Justice), Minneapolis, for appellee; Amy Lee Copeland, (Rouse & Copeland, LLC), Savannah, for Amicus Appellant; Anthony L. Cochran, Emma Cramer, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus; Maxwell Kent Thelen, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, Eugene R. Curry, (Law Office of Eugene R. Curry), Barnstable, Joseph Diedrich, (Husch Blackwell LLP), Madison, Rebecca C. Furdek, (Husch Blackwell LLLP), Milwaukee, Abraham James Spung, (Husch Blackwell LLP), Chattanooga, Glenn A. Delk, (Lightmas & Delk), Atlanta, Wilson C. Freeman, (Pacific Legal Foundation.), Sacramento, Timothy Sandefur, (Scharf-Norton Center For Constitutional Litigation), Phoenix, Madison Hunter Kitchens, John Franklin Sacha, Jr., Seth Isaac Euster, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0017

    Statute Requiring Certification of Lactation Care Providers Violated Due Process Right to Practice Their Chosen Profession

  • Hughes v. Ace American Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2023-06-20
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Personal Injury
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Cross, (Cross Kincaid), Decatur, Nola Jackson, Michael Werner, Trevor Brice, (Werner Law LLC), Atlanta, Jenna Hough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Boyd, Tiffany Harlow, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Jeremiah Belk, Roswell, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0609

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of an insurer in a car accident case, finding that there was no direct cause of action against the insurer under the Motor Carrier Act

  • Franklin County v. Wasserman

    Publication Date: 2023-06-12
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Buckley, Eric O’brien, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Butler, (Attorney at Law), Dahlonega, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0614

    Property Owner Lacked Standing to Bring Third-arty Racial Discrimination Claim on Behalf of Prospective Buyer

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  • Bryant v. Okafor

    Publication Date: 2023-05-31
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Bengtson, (The Law Firm of Benjamin O. Bengtson), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jesse Broocker, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Paul Weathington, Elizabeth Linginfelter, (Weathington Smith), Atlanta, David Hanson, (The Hanson Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Sharonda Boyce, Devon Zawko, (Huff Powell and Bailey LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0041

    Court reverses order granting a motion to dismiss a plaintiff's medical malpractice complaint, finding that a nurse and nurse practitioner are members of the same profession

  • Braselton ASC, LLC et al. v. Georgia Department of Community Health et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-29
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Armando Basarrate, Elizabeth Kitchens, David Darden, Grace Kopache, (Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, LLP), Atlanta, Thomas Cole, (Welchel, Dunlap, Jarrard & Walker, LLP), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Margaret Eckrote, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Marial Ellis, (Dept. of Community Health), Atlanta, Robert Rozier, Dorothy Cornwell, Brittany Sykes, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Roger Hatcher, Matthew Smith, (Smith, Gilliam, Williams & Miles, P.A.), Gainesville, Robert Highsmith, Talis Trevino, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, Caylee Noggle, (Commissioner-C/O Office of Health Planning Department of Community Health), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0522

    Court affirms award of a certificate of need to one entity where a competing entity had challenged the financial feasibility of the first entity's proposed surgical center.

  • Velazquez v. Perez

    Publication Date: 2023-05-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Manely, William King, (The Manely Firm, P.C.), Marietta, Kaitie Ruhl-Pirone, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anne Thompson de Magana, (Stearns-Montgomery & Proctor), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0297

    Court affirms divorce decree, child support and spousal support awards, and division of marital assets, but reverses and remands on issues of distributions of certain debts

  • Garcia-Diaz v. Women's Specialists of North Georgia, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-09
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dane Steffenson, (Dane Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Sanders, Jeffrey Mustari, Chase Babineaux, Stephen Shows, (Southern Health Lawyers, LLC (a Sanders & Mustari Law Firm)), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0224

    Court reverses order denying a motion to correct an error, which denial resulted in plaintiff's not receiving timely notice to file an appeal to dismissal of her lawsuit

  • Taylor v. The Devereux Foundation, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Constitutional Law | Damages | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Timothy Rogers, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips William Michael D’Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr., Hilary Wayne Hunter, (Isenberg & Hewitt, PC), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Farish Barr, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, Jeff Sandman, (Webb, Daniel, Friedlander, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Maxwell Kent Thelen, Andrew Steven Ashby, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Ross Warren Bergethon, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Matthew J. Rubenstein, (Jones Day), Minneapolis, Letitia A. McDonald, Robert B. Friedman, Erin Munger, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Anna Sumner Pieschel, Philip S. Goldberg, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, David Christopher Hanson, (The Hanson Firm), Atlanta, Anthony J. Sebok, (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), New York John C.P. Goldberg, (Harvard Law School), Cambridge, for Amicus Appellee; Rosser Adams Malone, (Malone Law Office), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, Rory A. Weeks, (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Jeffrey R. White, (Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C.), Washington, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, James D. Meadows, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Jacob Edward Daly, Elissa Blache Haynes, P. Michael Freed, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: S22A1060

    Statutory Cap on Punitive Damages Does Not Violate State Constitutional Right to Jury Trial