2025 Code of Georgia
Title 9 - Civil Practice (Chs. 1 — 17)
Chapter 9 - Arbitration (Arts. 1 — 2)
Article 2 - Medical Malpractice (§§ 9-9-60 — 9-9-84)
Annotations
Notes
Editor’s notes.Ga. L. 1988, p. 903, effective July 1, 1988, repealed the Code sections formerly codified as Parts 1, 2, and 3 of Article 2 and redesignated former Code Sections 9-9-110 through 9-9-133 of Part 4 of Article 2 as this article. The provisions of former Part 3 of Article 2 (former Code Sections 9-9-80 through 9-9-97) now appear as Part 1 of Article 1 of this chapter, except that former Code Section 9-9-83, concerning the validity of agreements to arbitrate, was repealed.
Research References & Practice Aids
Law reviews.For article, “Proposed Changes in the Arbitration Law of Georgia,” see 23 Ga. St. B. J. 152 (1987).
For article, “State of Emergency: Why Georgia’s Standard of Care in Emergency Rooms is Harmful to Your Health,” see 45 Ga. L. Rev. 275 (2010).
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.What constitutes physician-patient relationship for malpractice purposes, 17 A. L. R.4th 132.
Medical malpractice in connection with breast augmentation, reduction, or reconstruction, 28 A. L. R.5th 497.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 9
O. C. G. A. Title 9, Ch. 9
- § 9-9-60. "Medical malpractice claim" defined
- § 9-9-61. Medical malpractice arbitration authorized
- § 9-9-62. Petition for arbitration; arbitration order and appointment of referee; conditions precedent to enforceability
- § 9-9-63. Tolling of statute of limitations; when action permitted after filing of petition for arbitration
- § 9-9-64. Appointment of reporter; duties; compensation
- § 9-9-65. Arbitration submission; irrevocability absent consent
- § 9-9-66. Qualifications and status of referee
- § 9-9-67. Arbitrators — How chosen
- § 9-9-68. Arbitrators — How vacancy filled
- § 9-9-69. Arbitrators — Oath and affidavit
- § 9-9-70. Postponement of arbitration
- § 9-9-71. Adjournments by arbitrators; no meeting outside group
- § 9-9-72. Discovery
- § 9-9-73. Subpoena power of referee; compensation of witnesses
- § 9-9-74. Powers of referee to compel production of documentary evidence
- § 9-9-75. Competency of witnesses
- § 9-9-76. Rules governing examination of witnesses and admission of evidence
- § 9-9-77. Administration of oaths by referee
- § 9-9-78. Findings by arbitrators; concurrence of two sufficient
- § 9-9-79. Copy of findings furnished parties; entry of original on court’s minutes; effect and enforcement; clerk’s fees
- § 9-9-80. Finality of findings absent appeal; appeals to superior courts; transmittal of record; when findings set aside; disposition of case; supersedeas
- § 9-9-81. Costs; how taxed
- § 9-9-82. Compensation of arbitrators and referee
- § 9-9-83. Civil and criminal immunity of arbitrators
- § 9-9-84. [Repealed] Governor’s Commission on Obstetrics
