Deen v. Stevens

I respectfully dissent to the majority opinion upholding as constitutional a statute that eliminates the tolling of the two-year medical malpractice statute of limitation for those persons who are rendered mentally incompetent as a result of the conduct of health care professional defendants.

Since the earliest days of Georgia’s existence as a state, we have undertaken to safeguard the legal interests of our weakest and most vulnerable citizens by tolling the running of statutes of limitation until the removal of their disabilities. Whether denominated as “idiots, lunatics or infants,” Act of…