Legal Opinion
STATHAM v. QUANG
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 13, 2025No. S24G0842PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
321 Ga. 533
FINAL COPY S24G0842. STATHAM v. QUANG et al. COLVIN, Justice. We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether physicians who supervised a medical student during a surgery could be held vicariously liable for any negligent acts or omissions that the medical student may have committed during the procedure, under OCGA § 51-1-38, general agency principles, or the borrowed servant doctrine. The trial court granted partial summary judgment to the defendants, summarily concluding that they could not be held vicariously liable for the medical student’s negligence. And a divided…
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