Pressure injuries that develop because a resident was left immobile for long stretches can support a neglect claim against a Georgia nursing home. Bedsores are largely preventable with proper care,...
Georgia regulates nursing-home staffing, but the framework is built more around requiring enough qualified staff to meet residents' needs than around a single, simple number that applies to every facility....
An adopted child stands in the same legal position as a biological child when a Georgia parent dies wrongfully. A completed adoption creates a full legal parent-child relationship, and the...
An expert witness is not required in every Georgia product case, but in most of them expert testimony is practically necessary. Whether one is needed depends on how technical the...
When a nursing home administers the wrong medication and a resident is harmed, responsibility in Georgia can reach the staff member who made the error, the facility that employed them,...
When a single settlement resolves both the wrongful death claim and the estate's survival claim, the money must be divided between them because each claim compensates different losses and pays...
Yes. Georgia law allows a jury to award for the intangible value of a lost life even when no witness puts a dollar figure on it. The intangible portion of...
A survival action lets a deceased person's estate continue the very claim the person could have brought had they lived. It recovers the losses the decedent personally suffered between the...
A Georgia hospital can generally be held responsible for the negligence of nurses it employs. This rests on the long-standing principle that an employer answers for the wrongful acts of...
An arbitration clause in a Georgia nursing-home admission agreement is often enforceable, but not always. These clauses require disputes to be resolved by a private arbitrator instead of a jury,...