Nettles v. Laws

Sognier, Judge.

James Allen Nettles filed a complaint against William Laws, M.D., for medical malpractice alleging negligent prescription of narcotics. This appeal follows the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to Laws.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred by ruling that appellee’s motion for summary judgment was unrefuted by expert testimony. Appellee supported his motion with his own affidavit as an expert stating that in treating and in ordering prescriptions for appellant he had “exercised the required degree of care, skill, diligence, and learning ordinarily possessed and…