Judge Verda Colvin of the Court of Appeals of Georgia. (Courtesy photo)
The Georgia Court of Appeals threw out a jury award of more than $4.7 million to a young man injured while playing “bubble soccer” at his high school soccer team’s year-end party, ruling that the trial judge should have instructed the jury on the assumption of risk before they began deliberations.
The jury’s total verdict was for $5 million, but it apportioned 7% of the liability to plaintiff Salvador Reyes Quezada.
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