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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 9. ARBITRATION · Article 2. MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

9-9-60. “Medical malpractice claim” defined.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. For the purposes of this article, the term “medical malpractice claim” means any claim for damages resulting from the death of or injury to any person arising out of:

  2. (1)

    Health, medical, dental, or surgical service, diagnosis, prescription, treatment, or care, rendered by a person authorized by law to perform such service or by any person acting under the supervision and control of a lawfully authorized person; or#

  3. (2)

    Care or service rendered by any public or private hospital, nursing home, clinic, hospital authority, facility, or institution, or by any officer, agent, or employee thereof acting within the scope of his employment.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 7-401, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 2270, § 2; Code 1981, § 9-9-110; Code 1981, § 9-9-60, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1988, p. 903, § 3.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1988, “article” was substituted for “part” in the introductory language of the Code section.

Law reviews

For article, “Medical Malpractice: A Time for More Talk and Less Rhetoric,” see 37 Mercer L. Rev. 725 (1986). For article, “Physicians, Pharmacists, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers: Partners in Patient Care, Partners in Litigation?,” see 37 Mercer L. Rev. 755 (1986). For article, “State of Emergency: Why Georgia’s Standard of Care in Emergency Rooms is Harmful to Your Health,” see 45 Ga. L. Rev. 275 (2010).

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