O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 14-7-7 (2019)

Standards of practice; standards applicable to professional relationship and legal liabilities

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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Nothing contained in this chapter shall limit the authority and duty of any regulating board to regulate the several professions including the right to establish and enforce standards of practice, and nothing contained in this chapter shall change the law or existing standards applicable to the relationship between the person furnishing a professional service and the person receiving such service, including, but not by way of limitation, the rules of privileged communication and the contract, tort, and other legal liabilities and professional relationships between such persons.

History

(Ga. L. 1970, p. 243, § 7.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - What constitutes professional services within meaning of statute preserving individual liability of professional employees of professional corporation, association, or partnership, 31 ALR4th 898. Liability of professional corporation of lawyers, or individual members thereof, for malpractice or other tort of another member, 39 ALR4th 556.

Professional corporation stockholders’ nonmalpractice liability, 50 ALR4th 1276. Right of professional corporation to recover damages based on injury or death of attorney or doctor associate, 74 ALR3d 1129.

CHAPTER 8 PARTNERSHIPS Sec.

Short title. Definitions. ‘‘Knowledge’’ and ‘‘notice’’ defined. Construction with other laws. Governing laws in absence of specific provision in this chapter. ‘‘Partnership’’ defined. Determination of existence of partnership. Determination of ownership of property. Agency of partners for partnership.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1998–1998 · leading case: In Re WT Mayfield Sons Trucking Co., Inc., 225 B.R. 818 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 1998).
In Re WT Mayfield Sons Trucking Co., Inc., 225 B.R. 818 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 1998). · cites it 2× “The enactment of the chapter of the Georgia Corporation Code permitting professionals to incorporate did not “change the law or existing standards applicable to the relationship between the person furnishing a professional service and the person receiving such service,…”
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