The city carried a $5 million policy through Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company. The policy provided coverage for negligent acts involving the city's motor vehicles up to $5 million, but also included immunity endorsements that say that Atlantic has no duty to pay damages. (Credit: Xrmap)
The Georgia Supreme Court has recently released an opinion that seems to limit the amount that a family will be able to receive in a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of College Park, Georgia, stemming from a 2016 police crash that left a grandmother and two of her grandchildren dead.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has held that the city did not purchase insurance coverage for asserted negligence and reckless claims above the applicable $700,000 automatic sovereign immunity waiver, reversing the appellate court's ruling that the policy increased the sovereign immunity waiver notwithstanding its immunity endorsements.
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