Legal Opinion
Sood v. Smeigh
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 6, 2003No. A02A2471PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Eldridge, Judge.
Pran Sood, M.D., brings this discretionary appeal from the denial of his motion to dismiss this medical malpractice case against him for failure to timely attach a valid affidavit of an expert witness stating that he had been professionally negligent in some fashion and that any attempt to cure any defects in plaintiff Sonya Smeigh’s expert’s affidavit failed. Finding that the trial judge was right for the wrong reasons, because in this case OCGA § 9-11-9.1 does not apply, we affirm.
On January 10, 2002, the plaintiff filed her medical malpractice action against the defendant,…
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