( November 5, 2024, 11:34 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — A Georgia Court of Appeals panel rejected a medical malpractice litigant’s arguments that the five-year statute of repose did not apply to his renewal action or did not apply because his lawsuit was previously dismissed involuntarily, but vacated the judgment of a trial court dismissing the action and remanded it for consideration of whether the statute of repose had been tolled by a COVID-era judicial order as laid out by a recent Georgia Supreme Court opinion....