Peeks v. Department of Human Resources

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellants filed this wrongful death action against the Georgia Department of Human Resources, d/b/a Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital (“the hospital”) and three of its employees — Dr. Vibhaker Patel (the clinical director of the hospital), Dr. Gopichand Manney (a staff psychiatrist), and Linda May (a hospital social worker) — seeking to hold them liable for the death of John W. Peeks, who was killed by one of the hospital’s former patients, David Crawford. This appeal is from the grant of the appellees’ motions for summary judgment.

Crawford had been committed to…