Georgia Osteopathic Hospital, Inc. v. O'Neal

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellees sued the appellant, Georgia Osteopathic Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Doctors Hospital, seeking damages for the death of their father, George O’Neal, who was killed by police after he “went berserk” and began attacking people with a knife while a patient at the hospital. The appellees also sought to recover actual and punitive damages for the pain and suffering allegedly experienced by O’Neal before he died. A jury returned a verdict in their favor in the amount of $550,000, and the case is before us on appeal from the denial of the hospital’s alternative motions…