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Georgia Sepsis Diagnosis and Infection-Treatment Delay Allegations

Sepsis and infection-delay malpractice allegations often concern whether providers recognized serious infection, started antibiotics, controlled the infection source, escalated care, or transferred a worsening patient in time.

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The examples below focus on public Georgia complaint allegations where sepsis, infection diagnosis, antibiotic delay, source-control delay, meningitis or sepsis recognition, or post-operative infection treatment delay is central. Some pressure-wound cases may belong elsewhere unless the alleged sepsis recognition or transfer delay is a distinct focus.

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Georgia Court of Appeals affirms defense verdict but warns against exceptional-circumstances charge. The Court of Appeals of Georgia affirmed a defense verdict in a sepsis-related medical-malpractice case, while cautioning trial courts against using exceptional-circumstances foreseeability language in future malpractice jury charges. 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.