ROCKDALE HOSPITAL, LLC v. EVANS

S18G1189, S18G1190.

834 S.E.2d 77 (2019)

ROCKDALE HOSPITAL, LLC, v. EVANS et al.; and vice versa.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 7, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel James Huff , Sharonda Boyce Barnes , Randolph Page Powell, Jr. , Huff Powell & Bailey, LLC, 999 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 950, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellant in S18G1189, Appellee in S18G1190.

Lloyd Noland Bell , Bell Law Firm, Sidney Leighton Moore, III , The Moore Law Firm, P.C., Lawrence Bernard Schlachter , Schlachter Law Firm PC, 1201 Peachtree St. NE, Suite 2000, Atlanta, Georgia 30361, James O. Wilson, Jr. , Trial Lawyers, PO Box 667, Marietta, Georgia 30061, for Appellees in S18G1189, Appellants in S18G1190.

Philip S. Goldberg , Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, 1800 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006, Leonard Searcy, II , Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., 2555 Grand Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, for Amicus Appellee in S18G1190.


We granted certiorari in Case Number S18G1189 to consider (1) the standard that appellate courts should apply when reviewing a trial court's ruling on a claim under OCGA § 51-12-12, and (2) whether the Court of Appeals properly applied that standard in this case. In Case Number S18G1190, we asked whether it was error for the...

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