Georgia Appeals Court Limits Ethylene Oxide Retrial to Punitive-Cap Question
A split panel left a jury's $20 million compensatory and $50 million punitive findings intact and sent only the companies' intent to harm to a new jury.
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Georgia Appeals Court Revives Insurance Chief's Suit Over Friday Health Plans Assets
The court held that Georgia's insurer-liquidation law alone lets state courts hear the commissioner's claims against a Delaware company holding a failed HMO's money.
Georgia Appeals Court Bars Georgia Power From Using 2025 Tort Law to Shift Asbestos Fault
The Court of Appeals held that applying the 2025 Tort Reform Act's apportionment statute to a 2016 mesothelioma suit would violate Georgia's ban on retroactive laws.
Georgia Appeals Court Rejects State's Nutrient-Plan Mandate for DeKalb Wastewater Plants
Regulators lacked evidence tying two DeKalb County sewage plants to Lake Jackson's algae problem, the court held, reversing approval of nutrient-plan permit terms.
Georgia Appeals Court Tosses $975,000 Wal-Mart Verdict Over Damages Argument
The court held that 2025 tort-reform limits barred a lawyer from pricing a shopper's pain against a defense expert's $8,000 day rate and the minimum wage.
Georgia Appeals Court Vacates Sanction Over CEO's Replaced Phone in Fatal Crash Suit
A trial judge who heard only argument, not evidence, had to view the record in the company's favor before finding it destroyed texts and call records, the court held.
Georgia Appeals Court Shifts Contractors' Fault to Apartment Owner in Stairwell Attack Case
A Georgia appellate panel vacated a $250,000 judgment against Mill Creek and ordered contractors' share of fault for a 2017 attack on a concierge added to the owner's.
Georgia Appeals Court Says Contractor Failed to Prove FAA Covers Home Repair Contract
A unanimous panel reversed an order sending a homeowner's water-damage repair suit to arbitration because the contractor offered no evidence the job crossed state lines.
Georgia Appeals Court Says MagMutual Owes Interest Beyond Limits on $15M Verdict
MagMutual must pay post-judgment interest beyond its $3 million limits on a malpractice verdict, but the estate cannot sue for time-value-of-money damages, the court held.
Georgia Appeals Court Reverses Fee Award to Fulton County in 2020 Ballot Lawsuit
The court held that challengers to Fulton County's 2020 ballot handling had an arguable immunity theory against the county but upheld fees for the court clerk.
Georgia Appeals Court Reverses Contempt Order Against Tekion Lawyer Who Watched Hearing
The panel held that the transcript showed no directive for spectators to identify themselves, voiding a ban on the lawyer's work for Tekion in two cases against CDK Global.
Georgia Appeals Court Says CalSTRS Is Immune From Tenant's Marijuana-Smoke Suit
A Georgia appellate panel held that California's teachers' pension system kept its sovereign immunity against a tenant who alleged it owned her apartment's operator.
Georgia Appeals Court Vacates Primerica Injunction Against Osaic in Raiding Suit
The Court of Appeals said the trial court never explained why it rejected a West Virginia firm's jurisdiction challenge and a bid to send the dispute to FINRA arbitration.