ORTHO SPORT SPINE PHYSICIANS SAVANNAH LLC v. CHAPPUIS (2019)

In Chappuis v. Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians Savannah, 305 Ga. 401, 825 S.E.2d 206 (2019) (Chappuis II), the Supreme Court of Georgia vacated Division 2 of this Court's opinion in Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians Savannah v. Chappuis, 344 Ga. App. 233, 808 S.E.2d 559 (2017) (Chappuis I), “with instructions” for this Court “to vacate the trial court's order on the defendants’ motion to strike and to remand the case to the trial court with direction to reconsider the motion consistent with the law set forth” in the Supreme Court of Georgia's opinion. Chappuis II, 305 Ga. at 414 (3), 825 S.E.2d 206. Accordingly, we vacate Division 2 of our prior opinion, adopt the opinion of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and vacate the trial court's grant of the motion to strike portions of Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians Savannah, LLC's complaint. Id. We make no changes to Division 1 of our opinion in Chappuis I, in which we affirmed in part and reversed in part the trial court's grant of Jordan Strudthoff's motion to dismiss.

Judgment affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated in part, and case remanded.

Brown, Judge.

Dillard, P. J., and Markle, J., concur.