Bryan Knight of five-lawyer Knight Palmer won an appeal in the Georgia Court of Appeals that preserved a $4.1 million jury verdict he won against a title insurance company.

His client was a real estate investment company that purchased a loan secured by property that the client found was contaminated and had easements and restrictions that the title policy did not pick up. These title defects prevented the client from developing the land into a subdivision. After losing at trial, the title insurer appealed. After oral argument, the Court of Appeals ruled for the investment company.

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