The Supreme Court of Georgia has held that a 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. The case is Atl. Specialty Ins. Co. v. City of Coll. Park, No. S21G0482, 2022 Ga. LEXIS 22 (Feb. 15, 2022).

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, stemming from a 2016 police crash that left a grandmother and two of her grandchildren dead.

At issue was whether Georgia state law allowed for the city of College Park, through its insurance policy, to be held liable for the deaths of the three family members beyond the standard $700,000 state law limit.