(July 30, 2024, 8:18 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Reversing a unanimous decision of a panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a COVID-era judicial order tolling various court deadlines was authorized by law and applied to the state’s five-year statute of repose applicable to medical malpractice actions, allowing a woman’s malpractice claims against a hospital alleging the misdiagnosis of sepsis that resulted in amputations to move forward....