Lamb v. Candler General Hospital, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that a hospital’s failure to furnish medical equipment and facilities sounds in simple negligence
• a hospital is not “a professional,” and, therefore, a claim against a hospital is not one involving medical malpractice, subject to OCGA § 9-11-9.1
• complaint raised claim of simple negligence based on allegation that hospital employees installed wrong replacement parts in hospital surgical equipment
• claim arising from hospital’s use of wrong replacement parts in piece of medical equipment did not assert medical malpractice claim
• failure to replace disposable parts in medical instrument, as necessary for its safe operation, created issue of simple negligence by hospital employees
• claim arising from hospital’s use of wrong replacement parts in piece of medical equipment did not assert medical malpractice claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).