Medical Malpractice Explained

The question people actually type is whether the clock starts when they found out something went wrong. In Georgia, for medical malpractice, the honest answer is almost always no. The clock starts when the harm happens, not when you learn…

Most meningitis misdiagnosis cases can be read from a handful of timestamps. Consider this example chart from an Atlanta-area emergency department. At 10:40 p.m., the triage note records a fever of 102.8 and a nineteen-year-old who keeps her eyes closed…

A hip replacement patient's chart says "ambulate qid," meaning walk four times a day, and the checkboxes beside it stay blank for two days. A man with a swollen, tender calf leaves an Atlanta emergency room with a muscle-strain diagnosis…

Sometimes a family learns, months after the fact, that an earlier scan showed something nobody mentioned. The first question is usually whether it's already too late. Under Georgia's medical malpractice statute of limitations, the answer usually turns on three rules.…

At Davis Adams, resolved cases run from $100,000 settlements after a hospital fall or an IV injury to a $10,000,000 settlement for a woman whose heart infection went undiagnosed. Those results come from the same firm and the same state,…

She was back at the ER by morning. The first visit ended at 1:47 a.m. with a discharge sheet that said probable gastroenteritis, hydrate, follow up with your primary if symptoms persist, return if worse. She drove her daughter home…

Families often come to this question wanting to know one thing: How will I be compensated for what I have lost? In a Georgia civil case, including a medical malpractice case, the law refers to those losses as “damages.” This…

If you have driven past a billboard in Atlanta or watched local TV for ten minutes, you have heard it: "No fee unless we win." It is presented like a rare deal, something one particular firm is generously offering you.…

If you've ever sat in a waiting room and been handed a tablet to fill out a few forms before your appointment, you've probably done what almost everyone does. You tapped through screen after screen, initialed a box, checked another,…

A few weeks ago, we wrote about a 75-year-old cancer patient who signed an arbitration clause on an intake tablet during a routine medical appointment. We litigated that clause. We lost. That article ended by pointing to something we find…

Two excellent law firms had already turned it down. The statute of limitations was days away. We saw something in the medical records that made us take another look. A few weeks ago, another attorney called us about a potential…