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Georgia Pressure Ulcer and Wound-Care Malpractice Allegations

Pressure-ulcer and wound-care malpractice allegations often concern repositioning, pressure-relief equipment, wound consultation, infection prevention, debridement, and whether skin breakdown was addressed before it worsened.

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The examples below are limited to public complaint summaries where pressure wounds, pressure ulcers, wound-care delay, wound infection, osteomyelitis, or nursing-facility and hospital wound-prevention failures are central to the allegations. Sepsis may appear as an alleged consequence in some examples, but this page focuses on wound prevention and wound-care failures rather than general infection diagnosis.

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Supreme Court of Georgia: the medical malpractice damages cap cannot touch a verdict that also includes pain-and-suffering damages a jury was entitled to award. Reaffirming Nestlehutt under stare decisis, the Supreme Court held that OCGA § 51-13-1's $350,000 noneconomic damages cap cannot be applied at all to a verdict that includes constitutionally protected noneconomic damages — here, the estate's pre-death pain and suffering. Because the statute lumps every claimant's noneconomic damages into one capped sum and offers no way to carve a verdict apart, the Court vacated an order that had cut a $29,250,000 wrongful death award to $350,000. It expressly reserved whether the cap could reach a stand-alone wrongful death award.