Medical malpractice explained, in plain English.

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…

Georgia's 2005 medical malpractice damages cap does not limit a typical wrongful death case, after Supreme Court of Georgia rulings in 2010 and 2026. After a malpractice death, a family usually brings two claims: the survivors' claim for the full…

Georgia's unrepresented estate tolling rule pauses an estate's malpractice deadline until a permanent administrator is appointed. It never grants a fresh two years. Take a January 1, 2024 injury, a July 1, 2025 death, and a July 1, 2026 appointment.…

That headline sounds like an exaggeration, but in Georgia emergency room malpractice cases, gross negligence, not ordinary negligence, is what an injured patient must prove. It isn't an exaggeration. Under O.C.G.A. § 51-1-29.5, the patient must prove that gross negligence…

Many families later find a set of entries like these from a single 34-week prenatal visit. A pounding headache for two days, charted as migraine. Swelling in the face and hands, charted as normal for the third trimester. A blood…

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…