![]() ![]() 683, 683 (733 SE2d 269) (2012) (affirming the Court of Appeals’ judgment on certiorari under the right-for-any-reason doctrine). The correct analysis makes it even clearer, however, that the Defendants were not entitled to summary judgment based on their claim of immunity under OCGA § 31-32-10 (a) (2) and (3), and we therefore affirm the Court of Appeals’ judgment as to that issue. ![]() As explained below, we endorse much of what the Court of Appeals said about the immunity analysis in Division 1 of its opinion, although we conclude that the court skipped over one important point. This Court then granted the Defendants’ petition for certiorari to review that aspect of the Court of Appeals’ decision. ![]() On interlocutory appeal, the Court of Appeals affirmed the portion of the order denying immunity. The trial court rejected the immunity argument and denied summary judgment on that ground. 2007, p.133, provided them immunity from liability. The Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing among other things that OCGA § 31-3210 (a) (2) and (3), a part of the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care Act (“Advance Directive Act” or “Act”), see Ga. Alicea alleged among other things that they intubated her grandmother and put her on a mechanical ventilator, which prolonged her life when she was in a terminal condition and caused her unnecessary pain and suffering, contrary to her advance directive for health care and the specific directions of Alicea, her designated health care agent. Phillip Catalano (collectively, “Defendants”). ![]() In May 2013, Alicea, acting as the administratix of her grandmother’s estate, sued the Hospital and Dr. In March 2012, Jacqueline Alicea’s 91-year-old grandmother, Bucilla Stephenson, died at the end of a two-week stay at Doctors Hospital of Augusta, LLC (“Hospital”). In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: JS15G1571. After review, the Court concluded the appellate court skipped over one important point: "he correct analysis makes it even clearer, however, that the Defendants were not entitled to summary judgment based on their claim of immunity under OCGA 31-32-10 (a) (2) and (3), and we therefore affirm the Court of Appeals’ judgment as to that issue." The Supreme Court then granted Defendants’ petition for certiorari to review that aspect of the Court of Appeals’ decision. On interlocutory appeal, the Court of Appeals affirmed the portion of the The trial court rejected the immunity argument and denied summary judgment. The Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing among other things that OCGA 31-32-10 (a) (2) and (3), a part of the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care Act, gave them immunity from liability. In May 2013, Jacqueline Alicea, Bucilla's granddaughter, acting as the administratix of her grandmother’s estate, sued defendants the Hospital and Dr. In March 2012, 91-year-old Bucilla Stephenson died at the end of a two-week stay at Doctors Hospital of Augusta, LLC (“Hospital”). ![]()
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