• Au Medical Center, Inc. v. Dorothy Dale

    Publication Date: 2024-12-17
    Practice Area: Damages | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Brewton, Robert Marcovitch, Jena Lombard, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Watson, (Watson Law Firm), Smyrna, Maxwell Thelen, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, William Smith, (W. Calvin Smith, II, P.C.), Atlanta, Minerva Steele, (Steele Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Matthew Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Jason Branch, (Philips Branch & Hodges), Columbus, Trent Speckhals, (Speckhals Law, P. C.), Atlanta, Jason Bring, (Arnall, Golden, Gregory), Atlanta, Lisa Churvis, (Waldon Adelman Castilla Heistand & Prout), Atlanta, for AM.

    Case Number: A24A1027

    Court Affirms Denial of Apportionment of Damages in Medical Malpractice Case to Non-Parties That Were Originally Named But Were Subsequently Dismissed from the Case

  • Vantage Cancer Centers of Georgia, LLC et al. v. Georgia Department of Community Health et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-20
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, William Joseph Repko, III, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Charles L. Gregory, John Warner Ray, (Ray & Gregory, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret Kemmerly Eckrote, Daniel Stephen Walsh, Christopher M. Carr, Charles K. Thimmesch, Jeffrey William Stump, Andrew Bain McClintock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Michael Rozier, Dorothy Hubbard Cornwell, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr., Allen Andre Hendrick, Talis Colgan Trevino, Laurie Wells Trompeter, (Holland & Knight LLP), Nashville, for appellee; Armando Luis Basarrate, II, David Boone Darden, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs, LLP), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: S23G0405

    Court clarifies standard of review that Community Health Commissions must apply in evaluating hearing officer's factual findings in an application for a health care Certificate of Need

  • Pneumo Abex, LLC, et al. v. Sheila Long, et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-12
    Practice Area: Toxic Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Hempel, Gregory O'Neil, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Valentin Leppert, (King & Spalding LLP), Frances Spinelli, Ivan Gustafson, (Evert Weathersby Houff), Atlanta, Robyn Richards, Andrew Davenport, Paul Williams, (Kasowitz Benson Torress, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Sharon Zinns, (Zinns Law, LLC), Smyrna, S. Tate, (Akin & Tate), Cartersville, for appellee. Laura Shamp, Joshua Silk, (Shamp Speed Jordan Woodward), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A20A1442

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Granting Partial Summary Judgment to Deceased's Wife as to Companies' Non-Party Fault Defense and on 'Alternative Carcinogens'