By T. Bart Gary
On November 22, 2010, the Georgia Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Georgia Court of Appeals regarding the proper statute of limitation to apply to claims for professional malpractice. The case of Newell Recycling of Atlanta, Inc. v. Jordan Jones & Goulding, Inc.,Case No. S09G1974 (November 22, 2010) began as a malpractice claim against an engineering firm that provided design services for a new automobile shredding facility. The engineer, Jordan Jones & Goulding (JJ&G), prepared a proposal for the project entitled, “Draft Scope of Work” and sent it to the owner, Newell Recycling, in 1997. JJ&G followed up the draft with a letter with a cost estimate. The parties verbally agreed upon the work, and the project constructed with JJ&G’s plans was completed by the fall of 1999. (more…)