The Georgia Court of Appeals has affirmed a $35 million wrongful-death verdict awarded against the City of Milton in June 2023. Jurors awarded the eight-figure outcome to the parents of a college student killed in 2016 after driving into an 8-foot concrete planter along the shoulder of Milton’s Batesville Road.

Now prevailing appellee counsel with Harris Lowry Manton are weighing in on the implications of the intermediate appellate ruling on sovereign-immunity defenses.