Court Opinion

ID: 9568167
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:01:07.214449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:24:24.914863
License: Public Domain

PHIPPS, Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
For the reasons given in our dissent in Wesley Chapel Foot and Ankle v. Johnson,11 in my opinion Ms. Gannon’s wrongful death claims against Dr. Cleaveland and Dr. Entrekin are barred by the statute of repose in OCGA § 9-3-71 (b).
*882Therefore, as to Division 2,1 dissent from the affirmance of the trial court’s denial of Dr. Cleaveland’s motion for summary judgment as to the wrongful death claim in Case No. A07A0837 and from the affirmance of the denial of Dr. Entrekin’s motion for summary judgment as to the wrongful death claim in Case No. A07A0838; I concur in the affirmance of the denial of Dr. Goodrich’s and therefore Internal Medicine Associates’ motion for summary judgment in Case No. A07A0838.
Moreover, I concur in Division l’s judgment of affirmance of the denial of all defendants’ motions for summary judgment as to the personal injury and loss of consortium claims brought in the original complaint.
Although the result with respect to the wrongful death claim might not seem logical or fair, it is in my opinion demanded by the language of OCGA §§ 9-3-71 (h) and 9-3-70 and by “case law establishing] that actions seeking damages for personal injury and for wrongful death are separate and distinct, even though they arise out of the same event.”12
I am authorized to state that Judge Mikell joins in this opinion.

 286 Ga. App. 881 (650 SE2d 387) (2007).

 Waldroup v. Greene County Hosp. Auth., 265 Ga. 864, 867 (2) (463 SE2d 5) (1995) (footnote omitted).