{"id":1671,"date":"2008-01-15T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/medical_malpractice_bill_seeks\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:09:44","slug":"medical-malpractice-bill-seeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/medical-malpractice-bill-seeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Malpractice Bill Seeks To Correct Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our medical malpractice attorneys are many times forced to turn away cases against emergency rooms where the patient is injured by clear negligence. This is caused by the gross negligence standard for emergency departments adopted by the Legislature in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>With the Georgia Legislature meeting this week, Senators from both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans, have joined to co-sponsor Senate Bill No. 286.  This bill is designed to amend the provision of the so-called Tort Reform Bill initially passed in 2005, which essentially gave emergency rooms immunity from law suits.  As part of the February 2005 bill, patients alleging malpractice in emergency rooms must prove gross negligence.  Gross negligence is most often characterized under Georgia law as a reckless disregard for the safety of a patient, and in many cases has been interpreted to mean intentional harm.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s gross negligence standard is the harshest in the country.  Supporting this amendment are not only Republican and Democratic Senators, but Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).  MADD Director, Denise Themes, has commented that victims of drunk driving accidents usually go directly to an emergency room for treatment.  She points out that given the unique conditions in the statute, it\u2019s nearly impossible for one of those victims to prove gross negligence after the fact.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/medical-malpractice-bill-seeks\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Medical Malpractice Bill Seeks To Correct Injustice\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our medical malpractice attorneys are many times forced to turn away cases against emergency rooms where the patient is injured by clear negligence. This is caused by the gross negligence standard for emergency departments adopted by the Legislature in 2005. 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