Carol B. Bradway, and David E. Bradway v. The American National Red Cross

TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:

Carol and David Bradway appeal the district court’s decision to dismiss their suit against the American National Red Cross as barred by the Georgia statute of ultimate repose for medical malpractice actions. Because the Georgia Supreme Court has determined that this suit is an action for medical malpractice, not an action for “ordinary” negligence, we affirm the dismissal.

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In April 1983, when she was twenty years old, Carol Bradway underwent reconstructive surgery for facial birth defects at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. Bradway received two…