SHEKHAWAT v. JONES

No. S12G0552.

746 S.E.2d 89 (2013)

293 Ga. 468

SHEKHAWAT et al. v. JONES et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

July 11, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam L. Appel , Kim Michelle Ruder , Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, Annarita McGovern Busbee , Derrick Lee Bingham , Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney, LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.

Gary B. Blasingame , Andrew J. Hill III , Josh Brian Wages , Blasingame Burch Garrard & Ashley, P.C., Athens, Vincent Aaron Toreno , Ken David & Associates, LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

Floyd Michael Taylor , David E. Hudson , James Vance Painter , Hull Barrett, P.C., Augusta, James S.V. Weston , Trotter Jones, LLP, Augusta, Samuel S. Olens , Atty. Gen., Kathleen M. Pacious , Deputy Atty. Gen., Loretta L. Pinkston, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Claude McLaurin Sitton , Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, for amicus curiae appellant.


HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether physicians employed as faculty members at the Medical College of Georgia ("MCG") were entitled to official immunity in treating a patient at MCG's Children's Medical Center. Appellees Kenneth Jones and Clara Ramon, individually and as parents and next friends of their minor son, ("Plaintiffs") filed a medical malpractice action against Appellants Prem Singh Shekhawat, M.D. and Wayne Mathews...

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