Crisp Regional Hospital, Inc. v. Sanders

Adams, Judge.

Plaintiff Mary Ann Sanders filed a medical malpractice action against, inter alia, Crisp Regional Hospital, Inc. and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Inc. on February 2, 2004. When the Tort Reform Act of 2005 became effective the following year, defendants sent plaintiff a medical authorization form which they contended she was required to sign in order to comply with newly enacted OCGA § 9-11-9.2. Plaintiff refused to execute the authorization defendants provided to her, and instead moved for a protective order so that she would not be required to execute the form sent to her by…