Georgia News

After losing $11 billion during the near meltdown on Wall Street in 2007-2009, you might expect that Georgia’s two largest public pension plans would have filed at least one of the hundreds of shareholder lawsuits attempting to recover losses from corporate wrongdoers. You’d be wrong.

Georgia physicians are debating whether to push for a state constitutional amendment to reinstate a $350,000 cap on medical malpractice non-economic damages or scrap the current tort driven system in favor of a scheme similar to the one used in workers’ compensation.

Medical tort reform is a victim of its own success, an Emory University law professor concludes in a new study.

An effort to lower medical costs that would change the way patients are compensated in malpractice cases is gaining traction among Georgia conservatives.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday declined to strike down a key provision of the state's tort reform law that divvies up damage awards to plaintiffs in liability cases.

A week after Mississippi added some transparency to contingency fee agreements between its attorney general and private lawyers, Georgia has done the same.

It’s been 20 months since the Georgia Supreme Court threw out a key plank of the state’s 2005 tort reform: a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages for medical malpractice. During that time there’s been some hopeful talk among supporters of the cap, but precious little action by legislators.