The bill would create a no-blame administrative system that would treat medical malpractice claims like workers’ compensation claims, according to a news release from Patients for Fair Compensation, an advocacy group in support of the bill.
Sen. Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta), the bill’s sponsor, told the Cherokee Times: “Doctors went into medicine to heal people, to treat people. The last thing a doctor wants to do is to go into litigation.”
Groups like the Medical Association of Georgia and the State Bar of Georgia oppose the bill.
“We are interested in seeing that everyone has the right to justice and trial by jury,” Charles L. Ruffin, president of the State Bar of Georgia, said in the report. “We need to have an impartial judge overseeing an impartial jury making these decisions.”
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