O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-9-61 (2019)

Medical malpractice arbitration authorized

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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In addition to any other legal procedure for the resolution of medical malpractice claims, the parties to a medical malpractice claim may submit the claim for arbitration in accordance with this article.

History

Code 1933, § 7-402, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 2270, § 2; Code 1981, § 9-9-111; Code 1981, § 9-9-61, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1988, p. 903, § 3.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1988, “article” was substituted for “part” at the end of the Code section.